25th Annual HCIL Symposium and Open House. University of Maryland

Enabling Semantic Ecoblogging and Bioblitzes

Cynthia Parr, Taowei Wang, Joel Sachs, Lushan Han, and Tim Finin

May 30, 2008

People currently create Eco-blogs: stories about wildlife they have seen or observations they've made. Similarly, citizen and scientists work together on Bioblitzes to comprehensively report as many species as possible from an area. Currently, none of this information is easily discovered or integrated. We developed and have tested two tools that aim to make it easier for individual scientists and citizens to convert their information to RDF and OWL. Of 1200 Blogger BioBlitz observations, 47 of them were of species defined as “of concern” by USFWS.

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Tags: ecoinformatics, rdf, semantic web

Type: Misc

Publisher: University of Maryland, College Park

Organization: Human Computer Interacton Lab

Note: (Poster and demonstration)

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