[tdwg] Workshop Announcement “Semantic Data Models in Anatomy”, ZFMK Bonn, 9th-10th May 2019

Lars Vogt lars.vogt at zoosyst-berlin.de
Fri Mar 22 09:59:39 UTC 2019


*Workshop: Semantic Data Models in Anatomy *

Morphological data are essential to a lot of research in the life 
sciences. They are usually published in form of unstructured texts. As a 
consequence, morphological data are neither FAIR (_F_indable, 
_A_ccessible, _I_nteroperable, _R_e-usable) nor computer-parsable, often 
hidden behind pay-walls, and struggle with the immanent semantic 
ambiguity of morphological terminology. Semantic technology such as 
knowledge graphs (e.g., ontologies, data graphs) provides a solution to 
these problems. However, in order to guarantee interoperability and 
comparability of morphological data, the morphological community must 
agree on common semantic data models for morphological data. Our 
experience with developing a semantic module for morphological 
descriptions for the morphological data repository Morph∙D∙Base 
(https://proto.morphdbase.de/) has shown that it is not easy to find 
such data models in the published literature. There is a need for 
publications that cover data models relevant to morphology. Currently, 
respective information is still scattered and not easy to find.

The invited speakers will give an introduction to different approaches 
and data models for documenting anatomy in form of knowledge graphs. The 
workshop is intended to leave sufficient time for intensive discussions 
of the presented approaches and of new ideas brought up during the 
workshop. One of the goals of the workshop is to provide a starting 
point for collaboratively writing a paper that describes current 
approaches and models and discusses a comprehensive list of recommended 
concrete models together with rules when to apply them for semantically 
documenting various aspects of anatomy. Such a publication will help 
application developers to apply appropriate data models, help 
morphologists to produce reusable data, and will in general contribute 
to the overall integratability of morphological data.


*_Speakers_*
*James Balhoff*, University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA;
*Meghan Balk*, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA;
*Hong Cui*, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA;
*István Mikó*, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA;
*Lars Vogt*, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany;
*Matthew Yoder*, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA.


*_Workshop Information_**
Venue*Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Seminarraum 
(seminar room), Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany*
Start*9^th of May, 9am*
End*10^th of May, 4pm
*Registration*email to one of the workshop organizers 
(lars.m.vogt at googlemail.com; p.grobe at leibniz-zfmk.de);no registration 
fee applies


*Reference to a preceding workshop*: On 8^th of May, a workshop on "An 
Introduction to Anatomy Ontologies 
<https://www.zfmk.de/de/forschung/tagungen-und-konferenzen/workshop-an-introduction-to-anatomy-ontologies>" 
will be held at the same venue.

We are looking forward meeting you in Bonn,

Lars Vogt & Peter Grobe



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