CESIMAR - CENPAT   25625
CENTRO PARA EL ESTUDIO DE SISTEMAS MARINOS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
BiGe-Onto: An ontology-based system for managing biodiversity and biogeography data
Autor/es:
ZÁRATE, MARCOS; DELRIEUX, CLAUDIO; BRAUN, GERMÁN; LEWIS, MIRTHA; BRAUN, GERMÁN; LEWIS, MIRTHA; FILLOTTRANI, PABLO; FILLOTTRANI, PABLO; ZÁRATE, MARCOS; DELRIEUX, CLAUDIO
Revista:
Applied Ontology
Editorial:
IOS Press BV
Referencias:
Año: 2020 vol. 15 p. 411 - 437
ISSN:
1570-5838
Resumen:
Great progress to digitize the world´s available Biodiversity and Biogeography data have been made recently, but managing data from many different providers and research domains still remains a challenge. A review of the current landscape of metadata standards and ontologies in Biodiversity sciences suggests that existing standards, such as the Darwin Core terminology, are inadequate for describing Biodiversity data in a semantically meaningful and computationally useful way. As a contribution to fill this gap, we present an ontology-based system, called BiGe-Onto, designed to manage data together from Biodiversity and Biogeography. As data sources, we use two internationally recognized repositories: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). BiGe-Onto system is composed of (i) BiGe-Onto Architecture (ii) a conceptual model called BiGe-Onto specified in OntoUML, (iii) an operational version of BiGe-Onto encoded in OWL 2, and (iv) an integrated dataset for its exploitation through a SPARQL endpoint. We will show use cases that allow researchers to answer questions that manage information from both domains.