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ISWC 2015: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2015 pp 310–317Cite as

Semantic Bridges for Biodiversity Sciences

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNISA,volume 9367)

Abstract

Understanding the impact of climate change and humans on biodiversity requires the retrieval and integration of heterogeneous data sets for the generation of models that provide insights not possible with a single model. Scientists invest a significant amount of time collecting and manually pre-processing data for the generation of such models. The Earth Life and Semantic Web (ELSEWeb) project aims to create a semantic-based, open-source cyberinfrastructure to automate the ingestion of data by models. This paper describes the ontologies at the backbone of ELSEWeb that provide semantic bridges between environmental data sources and species distribution models.

Keywords

  • Ontology
  • Data-to-model integration
  • Model web
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change

N. del Rio—Affiliated with the University of Texas at El Paso when producing this work.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA

    Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana Pennington & Luis Garnica Chavira

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA

    Natalia Villanueva-Rosales & Luis Garnica Chavira

  3. Air Force Research Lab, Information Directorate, Rome, USA

    Nicholas del Rio

  4. Department of Geology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA

    Deana Pennington

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Villanueva-Rosales, N., del Rio, N., Pennington, D., Chavira, L.G. (2015). Semantic Bridges for Biodiversity Sciences. In: , et al. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2015. ISWC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25010-6_20

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