NTR: adding NLCD classes to biome

[lstanish]

@pbuttigieg Would be great if ENVO mapped the U.S. National Land Cover Database terms: http://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd11_leg.php
There are 20 terms in the 2011 edition. Definitions are a bit long-winded, check out link for details.
NEON uses these terms to describe vegetation types, and U.S. federal agencies map land cover type with these terms.

[pbuttigieg]

Thanks @lstanish ! We're on it. There may be some definitional cleanup and unpacking needed, but we'll make equivalencies for your use case.

[pbuttigieg]

The link above seems to deliver a 404, perhaps due to the need for HTTPS. This link works.

For clarification, do you need semantics that align to specific environments (e.g. mixed forest) or areas of land/water dominated by specific environments (e.g. area with X% of mixed forest)? I think the latter makes more sense here.

[pbuttigieg]

Hi @lstanish, in the commits above, I've added some classes that I think are capturing the semantics in the NLCD system. They'll look like this:

We'll export a subset for you to use. Let me know if this is okay!

[pbuttigieg]

Currently creating classes to axiomatise "barren land"...

[lstanish]

Hi @pbuttigieg, this is looking great.
WRT 'lichens' and 'moss', inclusion of the word "Alaska" in the term definition will exclude other lichenous and mossy regions of the world. This could limit ecological comparisons. Could ENVO possibly drop "Alaska" in term definition?
Thanks! -Lee

[pbuttigieg]

WRT 'lichens' and 'moss', inclusion of the word "Alaska" in the term definition will exclude other lichenous and mossy regions of the world. This could limit ecological comparisons. Could ENVO possibly drop "Alaska" in term definition?

Hi @lstanish - yes, we would have to in fact as EnvO classes should be location independent. A gazetteer would be used for named places.

[lstanish]

@pbuttigieg Would love to see these updates, where can I go to look at the updates?

[pbuttigieg]

Hi @lstanish, you can look at the editors version of the file in src/envo/envo-edit.owl, but I'll release the first version soon. The time delay was due to me trying to weave in the classes to others in ENVO (creating new ones along the way). This proved quite tricky due to ambiguities I couldn't resolve from the papers and documentation available. I'll just add the remaining classes without too many cross-links (axioms). They're still usable for annotation and can be developed when the need arises (however, we'd need some expert guidance from NLCD to do this well).

[pbuttigieg]

Hi @lstanish, the first released version of the NLCD 2011 classes is done! See our release notes here.

You can find the subset here.
This will soon have the stable PURL http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo/subsets/nlcd2011.owl, which should be used once it's registered.

Here's a table with the label and PURL. The NLCD label and IDs are included as Annotation properties in each class in the OWL file.

Label	PURL
area of barren land	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000752
area of cropland	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000892
area of deciduous forest	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000816
area of developed open space	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000883
area of developed space with high usage intensity	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000886
area of developed space with low usage intensity	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000884
area of developed space with medium usage intensity	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000885
area of dwarf scrub	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000861
area of emergent herbaceous wetland	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000894
area of evergreen forest	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000843
area of gramanoid or herbaceous vegetation	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000888
area of lichen-dominated vegetation	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000889
area of mixed forest	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000855
area of moss-dominated vegetation	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000890
area of open water	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000666
area of pastureland or hayfields	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000891
area of perennial ice or snow	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000746
area of perennial snow	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000745
area of perennial water ice	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000740
area of scrub	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000869
area of sedge- and forb-dominated herbaceious vegetation	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000887
area of woody wetland	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000893

[pbuttigieg]

PS: the PURLs will take some hours to be registered on OntoBee, so don't be alarmed if they don't resolve right away. You can always open the subset's OWL file in Protege.

[pbuttigieg]

Please reopen this issue if we need to create/modify content for your work!

[lstanish]

This is awesome! Thank you for working with me on this. I'll query our data products team for feedback, but to me this looks great. -Lee

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-- Lee Stanish Microbial Ecologist at NEON, Inc. INSTAAR Affiliate Boulder, CO, USA

[chrlaney]

This is great! Thanks @pbuttigieg @lstanish!

[pbuttigieg]

Following up on #458 (comment), the PURLs should be live (via OntoBee) after this Saturday, see OntoZoo/ontobee#104