Hi Everyone,
You're all invited to join us at an iDigBio webinar next week:
Shaping the semantic layer by mining digitised data:
an encounter between 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
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. There is considerable scope to refine and extend
this approach to other digitised data and power synergy between
the semantic layer and data repositories.
Presenters: Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg
HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und
Meeresforschung
c/o Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstrasse 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Email: pbuttigi@mpi-bremen.de
and
Grant Godden
Research Associate, Mint Genome Project
Buell Lab http://buell-lab.plantbiology.msu.edu/index.shtml
Michigan State University
Email: goddengr@msu.edu
Former iDigBio Graduate Student, Soltis Lab
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt
When: Tuesday, November
10, 2015 - 9:00am
to 1:00am
EST (Tallahassee, Florida)
That's 3:00 pm to 4 pm CET (Berlin, Germany)
See you there and please share this posting with other interested
parties. Thanks!
Deb Paul, et al in the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group
(please excuse cross-postings)
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Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
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