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When hydrospheres collide: lessons in practical environmental ontologies
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| Title: | When hydrospheres collide: lessons in practical environmental ontologies |
| Authors: | Graybeal, John
Bermudez, Luis E. |
| Keywords: | Ontologies
Metadata
Information technology and hydroscience |
| Issue Date: | 12-Sep-2006 |
| Publisher: | Michael Piasecki and College of Engineering, Drexel University |
| Citation: | Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/732 |
| Abstract: | The Marine Metadata Interoperability Project was created in 2004 with NSF funding. Its mission
was to create a community of metadata-aware scientists and data managers, and provide leadership
toward interoperable metadata solutions. Recently, MMI brought together a number of international
participants, with the eventual objective of developing a fully rationalized ontology of data source
types ("sensors").
First, however, the team focused on an ontology for environmental science platforms, with a
particular focus on marine platforms. The team believed a platforms ontology was simpler, and
knew it was a needed reference in the sensor ontology effort. In addition, the platform ontology
could be put to use fairly quickly by a number of interested data system developers. The objectives,
and the activities and associated documents are at the site http://marinemetadata.org/sourcesont.
This paper describes the reality of working with words in a computational context, from the
point of view of a computer scientist and data manager who is not an ontologist. It also provides an
alternative view on approaches to developing an upper ontology for a given topic. |
| Description: | Paper presented at The Seventh International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE) hosted by the College of Engineering at Drexel Univeristy on September 10-13, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference theme was IT in the Field of HydroSciences. It included several mini-symposia that emphasized IT topics in HydroSciences and the yearly meeting of the metadata group of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange organization. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/1499 |
| ISBN: | 0977447405 |
| Appears in Collections: | Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE 2006) [ISBN: 0977447405]
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