Semantic Web

Advancing ecological research with Ontologies (a review paper)

kstocks — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:15 -0700

Joshua S. Madin, Shawn Bowers, Mark P. Schildhauer and Matthew B. Jones. 2008. Advancing ecological research with ontologies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23(3): 159-168.

Architectural Framework and Operational Concept for Semantic Interoperability

graybeal — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:06:02 -0700

Semantic interoperability is a needed capability to successfully exchange data in ocean science. The computer science and geo-informatics communities are introducing technical solutions, but there remains a challenge: the best approach toward semantic interoperability requires a designed framework, and operationally tested tools and infrastructure within that framework.

Ontologies Team

Biodiversity Knowledge Organization Systems

ramorrismorris — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:21:00 -0800

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has commissioned a white paper to advise it on its future directions for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), a rubric that includes the creation, use, and management of such resources as controlled vocabularies, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies. Before a final draft is produced, GBIF invites an initial public review of the first draft. The draft may be found at http://bit.ly/GBIFKOS_2010-11-25-0400 and the mechanism for commenting at http://bit.ly/GBIFKOS_Comments which is a page on the GBIF Community Site.

Collaborations

Human Factors and the Semantic Web (1st Workshop)

graybeal — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:56:27 -0700

Start: 12/08/2008 - 00:00

End: 12/11/2008 - 23:59

The world-wide-web (www) is being envisioned and designed as a 'semantic network', to the point that we refer to it as 'semantic web', where semantics refers to the relationship between the meaning of its nodes and arcs. To date, many of the functional expectations of the SW are yet to be fulfilled (large scale deployments, ability to extract meaning from context, to infer relationships etc).

International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 3 and European Environment Agency Conference on Coastal Atlas Development

deepseadawn — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:05:35 -0700

Start: 07/07/2008 - 00:54

End: 07/11/2008 - 00:54

Experts will gather this summer to influence the further development of coastal web atlases for coastal zone management at an international coastal/ocean mapping and informatics workshop and European conference, scheduled back-to-back to take place on 7-10 July 2008 at the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Live Services for COG

barrytao — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:04:17 -0700

Various systems have been set up to facilitate knowledge modeling and provide live semantic web based services for the Collaborative Ocean Group (COG).

Live service at dolphin - inside campus firewall at the moment. need vpn to get inside soton.ac.uk.

See the list of live services at http://dolphin.noc.soton.ac.uk/mediawiki-1.12.0/index.php/Live_services

Collaborative Ocean Group (COG)

MMI Paper on Semantic Mediation Published

graybeal — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:17:03 -0800

The MMI Project is pleased to report an MMI-based paper, Semantic mediation of vocabularies for ocean observing systems, has been accepted for publication in the journal Computers & Geosciences. Co-authored by John Graybeal, Anthony Isenor, and Carlos Rueda, the paper describes how semantic mediation of vocabularies is needed for any diverse ocean observing system, and the semantic framework and technologies introduced by MMI. It includes an explanation of the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository, describing many of its features, present uses, and possible future uses.

This paper serves as a simple basic introduction to semantic tools and mediation, an overview of MMI's semantic framework and tools, and a great citation for the MMI ORR work that has been funded by NSF and supported by MMI's staff and many volunteers.

Semantic Web & Web Semantics (SWWS '07)

carynn — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:56:00 -0800

Start: 11/25/2007 - 12:00

End: 11/30/2007 - 21:00

This 3rd International IFIP Workshop on Semantic Web & Web Semantics complements the "On The Move" (OTM) Federated Conferences and Workshops.

SWING (geospatial semantic web services)

graybeal — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:42:00 -0800

SWING is a European project targeting necessary semantic infrastructure for geospatial web services.

Information culled from the home page.