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) 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@mpi-bremen.de and Grant
Godden, Research Associate, Mint Genome Project, Buell Lab, Michigan
State University, email: goddengr@msu.edu
Best,
Deb, et al
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