Figure 5

Resolver metadata response, example 1. This illustrates the conceptual structure of a typical response from the Resolver. It represents the species with accepted name Abrus precatorius L., one of the synonyms (Abrus tunguensis), one of the associated vernacular names (crab's eye), and a relationship to two other taxa (it is a child taxon of the genus Abrus, and a parent taxon of the subspecies Abrus precatorius subsp. africanus). We have represented the key concepts and their relationships; where a number of XML sub-elements have been collapsed into a single entity, their contents are given in non-italicised text; where attributes are given, the text is italicised. [See additional file 1 for a corresponding XML listing.]