COMPASS

The COMPASS (Coastal Marine Perception Application for Scientific Scholarship) project is investigating the development of semantic tools for assisting those conducting research on coastal and marine environments. They have targeted demonstrating an ontologically-driven knowledge infrastructure for the marine domain.

COMPASS plans to create a demonstration project showing an ontology-based system for marine science. They intend to emphasize discovery, access, and use of scientific resources. Some of the project objectives (from the web site) include:

• Creation of coastal marine community ontology for tagging a wide variety of related resources,
• Integration of these and other ontologies in an ontological registry,
• Extend and semantically enrich existing geospatial feature type models,
• Demonstrate how applications can be built from a set of web services using semantics derived from both the communities of practice and service ontologies, and
• Work within the context of relevant standards organisations to gain maximum synergy and sustainable outputs.

The COMPASS project has been funded for 18 months by a European e-Infrastructure program by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).