Paper Info
Title
Beyond INSPIRE: An Ontology for Biodiversity Metadata Records.
Abstract
Managing research data often requires the creation or reuse of specialised metadata schemas to satisfy the metadata requirements of each research group. Ontologies present several advantages over metadata schemas. In particular, they can be shared and improved upon more easily, providing the flexibility required to establish relationships between datasets and concepts from distinct domains. In this paper, we present a preliminary experiment on the use of ontologies for the description of biodiversity datasets. With a strong focus on the dynamics of individual species, species diversity, biological communities and ecosystems, the Predictive Ecology research group of CIBIO has adopted the INSPIRE European recommendation as the primary tool for metadata compliance across its research data description. We build upon this experience to model the BIOME ontology for the biodiversity domain. The ontology combines concepts from INSPIRE, matching them against the ones defined in the Dublin Core, FOAF and CERIF ontologies. Dendro, a prototype for collaborative data description, uses the ontology to provide an environment where biodiversity metadata records are available as Linked Open Data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_61
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Ontology (information science),Metadata repository,Ontology,Metadata,World Wide Web,FOAF,Computer science,Data element,Linked data,Spatial data infrastructure
Conference
8842
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
João Rocha da Silva14010.23
João Aguiar Castro2327.24
Cristina Ribeiro36210.31
João Honrado4216.74
Ângela Lomba541.39
João Gonçalves692.89