Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge
Ecoinformatics site parent site of Partnership for Biodiversity Informatics site parent site of SEEK - Home
Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge








 

 

 

Relative Equivalence Notes
Your trail: Jobs | SVNRepository | StatusReports | Intranet | KnowledgeRepresentationCommunity | EcoGridCommunity | SemanticMediationCommunity | AnalysisAndModelingCommunity | SEEKTaxonCommunity | EducationAndOutreachCommunity

Difference between current version and current version:

At line 0 added 15 lines.
+ !! Notes for Relative Equivalence Operation
+ Define a programmatic interface to support the functionality required by item #11
+
+ {{{
+ float function compareNames(string name1, string name2)
+ }}}
+ Returns a floating point value in the range 0..1 providing an indication of the similarity of name1 and name2. A value of 1.0 indicates name1 and name2 are identical.
+
+ Questions:
+
+ * How is similarity measured?
+ * What other metrics should included in the response besides the "distance" measurement?
+
+
+ The measurement is relative to a scale- what defines the scale? Is it some measure of distance from absolute extremes of the taxonomic domain?

Back to Relative Equivalence Notes, or to the Page History.


This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award 0225676. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

LTER Logo
Long Term Ecological Research Network, UNM National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UCSB Biodiversity Research Center, KU San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD
 
Arizona State University Napier University University of North Carolina University of Vermont
 
UC Davis Genome Center

Copyright 2004 Partnership for Biodiversity Informatics, University of New Mexico, The Regents of the University of California, and University of Kansas