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  <title><![CDATA[Using the Semantic Web to support knowledge integration, retrieval and expansion for ecoinformatics]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/207/Using-the-Semantic-Web-to-support-knowledge-integration-retrieval-and-expansion-for-ecoinformatics</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Today, the information on the World Wide Web is growing at
an astonishing rate providing a rapidly expanding source of
valuable data. The abundance of distributed information on
the Web increases the importance of efficient organization,
sharing and retrieval of available data. This is
particularly important in scientific research where
efficient collaboration, exchange of results of experiments
and observations, fast discovery of relevant information and
data integration from differe...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-05-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Spire]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/9/Spire</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Spire is a distributed, interdisciplinary research project exploring the use of semantic web technologies in support science in general and the field of ecoinformatics in particular. Spire has received funding from the National Science Foundation ITR program and additional funding is expected from several other government agencies.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-09-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lessons learned from semantic web prototyping in ecology]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1120/Lessons-learned-from-semantic-web-prototyping-in-ecology</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We review lessons learned from the SPIRE project â€“ Semantic Prototypes in Research Ecoinformatics (http://spire.umbc.edu) and the ongoing LepTree project (http://www.leptree.net). We include a discussion of how ontologies are and could be used by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-10-19</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Enabling Semantic Ecoblogging and Bioblitzes]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/394/Enabling-Semantic-Ecoblogging-and-Bioblitzes</link>
  <description><![CDATA[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 observati...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-05-30</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[RDF123 and Spotter: Tools for generating OWL and RDF for biodiversity data in spreadsheets and unstructured text]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/372/RDF123-and-Spotter-Tools-for-generating-OWL-and-RDF-for-biodiversity-data-in-spreadsheets-and-unstructured-text</link>
  <description><![CDATA[OWL (the Web Ontology Language) and the related RDF (Resource Description Framework) are XML-based languages designed to represent the semantics of data. These languages enable systems to go beyond simple controlled vocabularies and specify the contexts and logical relationships among terms. Formal ontologies use classes (e.g., Species A) and properties (e.g., is a member of, or eats, or has body mass) to represent concepts and relationships as assertions. For example, two assertions might be...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-10-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/353/Finding-Data-Knowledge-and-Answers-on-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate opinions. The W3C's Semantic Web effort aims to make such knowledge more accessible to computer programs by publishing it in machine understandable form. As the volume of Semantic Web data grows, software agents will need their own search engines to help them find the relevant and trustworthy knowledge they need to perfo...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-02-14</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[ETHAN: the Evolutionary Trees and Natural History Ontology]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/332/ETHAN-the-Evolutionary-Trees-and-Natural-History-Ontology</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Large-scale ecological modeling and evolutionary studies often rely on
scoring taxon-level characteristics of a wide variety of organisms.
Compiling such data is laborious and may involve finding and
reformatting data tables in original literature or personally
exchanging spreadsheets or ASCII files with researchers. Compiled
taxon-level data is beginning to be shared digitally, and efforts to
support wide data sharing in ecology and evolution should make even
more compiled data availa...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-11-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Information Integration and the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/327/Information-Integration-and-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This short position paper describes the role that the Semantic Web can play in information integration and how the Swoogle Semantic Web search engine can help. The Semantic Web vision is to develop a Web of data. Independent agents (people and programs) publish information on the Web using RDF, a simple, common representation language with well-defined semantics. The documents represent ontologies (conceptual models) or data. Ontologies are machine-interpretable definitions of classes and pro...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-10-26</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Using the Semantic Web to Support Ecoinformatics]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/319/Using-the-Semantic-Web-to-Support-Ecoinformatics</link>
  <description><![CDATA[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 a...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-10-13</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Using the Semantic Web to Integrate Ecoinformatics Resources]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/313/Using-the-Semantic-Web-to-Integrate-Ecoinformatics-Resources</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We demonstrate an end-to-end use case of the semantic webâ€™s utility for synthesizing ecological and environmental data.ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and Information System) is a suite of tools for constructing food webs for a given location. 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 other semantic web resources. In particular, we describe using a Triple Shop applicati...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-07-18</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Integrating Ecoinformatics Resources on the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/303/Integrating-Ecoinformatics-Resources-on-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and
Information System), a suite of tools for constructing food webs
for a given location. We express both ELVIS input and output
data in OWL, thereby enabling its integration with other
semantic web resources. In particular, we describe using a Triple
Shop application to answer SPARQL queries from a collection of
semantic web documents. This is an end-to-end case study for the
semantic webÂ's utility for ecological and environmen...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-05-20</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Will the Semantic Web Change Science?]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/189/Will-the-Semantic-Web-Change-Science-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Science thrives when ideas, hypotheses, data and knowledge are quickly and easily shared within disciplines and communities.  Traditionally, this was done through personal interactions, letters, lectures, and articles in professional journals.  The advent of the Internet and Web accelerated  information sharing with tools like email, online publishing, digital libraries and comprehensive search engines such as Google.  Researchers and developers are now exploring a new idea that many believe ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-09-15</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/223/Finding-Data-Knowledge-and-Answers-on-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate opinions. The W3C's Semantic Web effort aims to make such knowledge more accessible to computer programs by publishing it in machine understandable form. As the volume of Semantic Web data grows, software agents will need their own search engines to help them find the relevant and trustworthy knowledge they need to perfo...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-05-08</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Information Integration and the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/209/Information-Integration-and-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This presentsation from the Information Integration Workshop describes the role that the Semantic Web can play in information integration and how the Swoogle Semantic Web search engine can help.  Examples from the NSF Spire project on ecoinformatics are used.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-10-26</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Spire]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/3/Spire</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Spire is a distributed, interdisciplinary research project exploring the use of semantic web technologies in support science in general and the field of ecoinformatics in particular. Spire has received funding from the National Science Foundation ITR program and additional funding is expected from several other government agencies.]]></description>
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