[tdwg] iDigBio Webinar: Shaping the semantic layer by mining digitised data: iDigBio's plant records and the Environment Ontology (ENVO)

[Deborah Paul]

Hi Everyone,

Quick reminder about a webinar tomorrow at iDigBio. Shaping the semantic 
layer by mining digitised data: iDigBio's plant records and the 
Environment Ontology (ENVO) 
https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-shaping-semantic-layer-mining-digitised-data-encounter-between-idigbios-plant

 From Presenter Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg...
*Abstract*: Domain ontologies seek to represent the entities in an area 
of investigation alongside their interrelations in a logically coherent 
manner. Domain knowledge is the lifeblood of these ontologies and 
initiatives such as iDigBio offer valuable repositories which contain 
both legacy and contemporary knowledge and are ripe for mining. The 
Environment Ontology (ENVO) 
<http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/ENVO> is a domain ontology 
that is concerned with environments, ecosystems, habitats, and related 
entities. We performed a cursory text-mining exercise focusing on 
iDigBio's plant habitat descriptions to learn what terms and phrases the 
botany community - past and present - have used to describe the 
environments they sample. The results are being used to guide the 
creation of new classes and relations in ENVO, ensuring the ontology is 
fit to represent the environmental aspects of these early waves of 
digitised plant data. In this webinar, I will describe our approach, 
some of its early results, and the main challenges we face going forward.

Find out more about the ENVO ontology tomorrow 10 November 2015.
When: Tue 9 am - 10 am EST (Tallahassee, Florida), that's Tue 3:00 PM 
CET (Berlin, Germany)
Were: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt
Who: Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg, HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and 
Technology
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, email: pbuttigi at mpi-bremen.de and Grant Godden, 
Research Associate, Mint Genome Project, Buell Lab, Michigan State 
University, email: goddengr at msu.edu

Best,
Deb, et al

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Florida State University
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