Ontologies and Semantics

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Ontologies and Semantics
MMI Planning Meeting 2008 Huntsville, AL. Aug
25, 2008
Luis Bermudez Southeastern Universities Research
Association
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Assessment

• Work is on track
• strategic track ?
• Not as much traffic
• collaborations

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Registry

• Establish MMI as registry for geoscience
  vocabularies.
• Bio Portal 17 M for 5 years

Strategies 23,21,27
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Niche

• Semantic Mediation in the marine community
• Controlled Vocabularies
• Ontologies
• Creation
• Mapping
• Registration
• Mediation
• Embedding them in web services

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Collaboration

• OGC Oceans IE
• QARTOD Q2OGC
• OGC Geosemantics WG
• Open Ontology Repository
• International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN)
• BioPortal
• Regional Associations ?
• NOAA / IOOS ?

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More Robust Tools
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More Robust Tools
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Issues and Needs

• Semantic Registry - we urgently needed (e.g. OGC
  services)
• Continue current MMI Registry development or
  collaborate with others (e.g. Open Ontology
  Repository, BioPortal)
• Funding ?
• How tos - videos - web casts etc..
• MMI guides participation in documentation of
  Ontology Tools