Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on the Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition

Using the Semantic Web to Support Ecoinformatics

Joel Sachs, Cynthia Parr, Andriy Parafiynyk, Rong Pan, Lushan Han, Li Ding, Tim Finin, Allan Hollender, and Taowei Wang

October 13, 2006

We describe our on-going work in using the semantic web in support of ecological informatics, and demonstrate a distributed platform for constructing end-to-end use cases. Specifically, we describe ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and Information System), a suite of tools for constructing food webs for a given location, and Triple Shop, a SPARQL query interface which allows scientists to semi-automatically construct distributed datasets relevant to the queries they want to ask. ELVIS functionality is exposed as a collection of web services, and all input and output data is expressed in OWL, thereby enabling its integration with Triple Shop and other semantic web resources.

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Tags: ecoinformatics, food web, semantic web, swoogle

Type: InProceedings

Publisher: American Associate for Artificial Intelligence

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