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Semantic Data Integration of Biodiversity Data with the SERONTO OntologyNICOLAS BERTRAND1, Herbert Schentz2, Bert Van Der Werf 3, Barbara Magagna2, Johannes Peterseil2, Terry Parr1, Michael Mirtl2 | 1 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom; 2 Umweltbundesamt, Austria; 3 Alterra, Netherlands
Introduction Socio-ecological Research & Observation Ontology
The SERONTO framework, a product of the Network of Excellence ALTER-Net, was developed to allow seamless access and querying of heterogeneous data resources across multiple institutions and several scientific domains.The establishment of syntactical and semantical interoperability of data resources and services are seen as indispensable requirement for integrating socio-ecological and ecological sciences at a global scale. To achieve the semantic interopability the Socio-Ecological Research and Observation oNTOlogy (SERONTO) has been developed as an extensible semantic framework. This poster presents a project that uses SERONTO to integrate three specific biodiversity datasets. This approach will lead a distributed system that can be readily extended to other datasets effectly becoming a proof of concept for the use of Lifewatch research infrastructure developments for the integration of biodiversity data
About LifeWatch
An Observations and Measurements Ontology
SERONTO with Domain Ontologies
Support for Reference Lists
SERONTO Design Principles
In order to be useful for data integration, query, analysis and synthesis SERONTO aspires to be:■ logical, transparent and
machine readable- easy to use■ refelects the realities of the
domains covered■ bring together metadata and
concrete data as well as semantics
■ efficient for queries■ minimizing storage ■ scientifically sound■ standards compliant
Source Datasets
National Biodiversity Network Gateway Countryside Survey Environmental Change Network
Data Integration
Integrating biodiversity data at different scales
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