A framework for biological information models
Walter G. Berendsohn, Anastasios Anagnostopoulos, Jasmin Jakupovic, Pierluigi Nimis, Benito Valdés Castrillón · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 1997
A general reference system for information processing needs to address information structures of the research process as well as those of the materials used in the study. The present article presents a framework for such a reference system by means of a categorization of data structures into biological study, descriptor, and biological object. An entity relation model is presented to clarify the internal structure of objects, which may stand for scientific names, taxa, units in a natural history collection, or even geographical sites or ecological categories.