From the “Not quite the semantic web department” come a semi-standard use of Flickr’s machine tags to label images with the genus and species.
For example, my photos of the Laughing Kookaburra, would be tagged with:
taxonomy:genus=Dacelo
taxonomy:binomial=Dacelo_novaeguineae
Hmm, I wonder if there are other conventions for kingdom, phylum, class, order and family?
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Revisited –
Continuing the conversation with myself — a possible sign of madness — and answering my own question from above, here are all the semi-standard taxonomy tags for the Wedge-tailed Eagle:
“Aquila audax”, “Wedge-tailed Eagle”, “bird”, “taxonomy:kingdom=Animalia”, “taxonomy:phylum=Chordata”, “taxonomy:class=Aves”, “taxonomy:order=Falconiformes”, “taxonomy:family=Accipitridae”, “taxonomy:genus=Aquila””, “taxonomy:common=Wedge-tailed Eagle”, “taxonomy:binomial=Aquila_audax”.
A text extract of the Australian bird list from wikipedia, a couple of minutes and a brief perl script and I’ve got myself a ~/bin/bird-tag that will generate the list of tags.
