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-digiti...

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

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