NDLI: Towards semantically-enabled exploration and analysis of environmental ecosystems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ping Wang Linyun Fu Patton, E.W. McGuinness, D.L. Dein, F.J. Bristol, R.S.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY USA (Ping Wang; Linyun Fu; Patton, E.W.; McGuinness, D.L.) \|\| U.S. Geological Survey (Dein, F.J.; Bristol, R.S.)
Abstract	We aim to inform the development of decision support tools for resource managers who need to examine large complex ecosystems and make recommendations in the face of many tradeoffs and conflicting drivers. We take a semantic technology approach, leveraging background ontologies and the growing body of open linked data. In previous work, we designed and implemented a semantically-enabled environmental monitoring framework called SemantEco and used it to build a water quality portal named SemantAqua. In this work, we significantly extend SemantEco to include knowledge required to support resource decisions concerning fish and wildlife species and their habitats. Our previous system included foundational ontologies to support environmental regulation violations and relevant human health effects. Our enhanced framework includes foundational ontologies to support modeling of wildlife observation and wildlife health impacts, thereby enabling deeper and broader support for more holistically examining the effects of environmental pollution on ecosystems. Our results include a refactored and expanded version of the SemantEco portal. Additionally the updated system is now compatible with the emerging best in class Extensible Observation Ontology (OBOE). A wider range of relevant data has been integrated, focusing on additions concerning wildlife health related to exposure to contaminants. The resulting system stores and exposes provenance concerning the source of the data, how it was used, and also the rationale for choosing the data. In this paper, we describe the system, highlight its research contributions, and describe current and envisioned usage.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	8
File Size	1598453
Page Count	8
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ISBN	9781467344678
e-ISBN	9781467344661
DOI	10.1109/eScience.2012.6404436
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-10-08
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Semantic Web Semantic Environmental Informatics Provenance Wildlife Semantics Data visualization Ontologies Water pollution Cognition Portals Ecological Data Integration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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