Abstract
Abstract. A recurrent issue for data integration is the lack of a common
and structured vocabulary used by different parties to describe their
data sets. The Crop Ontology (www.cropontology.org) project aims to
provide a central place where the crop community can gather to generate
such standardized vocabularies and structure them into ontologies.
Having standardized ontologies opens the world of the Semantic Web
to data integration between different data providers. Crop Ontology is
a community-based project, providing a central place for the creation
of crop-related ontologies, but it can also be integrated into third-party
tools through its Application Programming Interface, providing retrieval
of specific terms or a more generic search functionality for all terms. The
ontologies are available in RDF format, described using the OWL and
RDFS standards, allowing them to be consumed by popular semantic
reasoners. We believe that Crop Ontology will lead to better description
of crop-related data, improving collaboration between partners and
should serve as an example for other scientific fields.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Event | The First International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity - Duration: 27 May 2013 → … |
Workshop
Workshop | The First International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity |
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Period | 27/05/13 → … |
Keywords
- Agricultural biodiversity
- Crops
- Linked data
- Ontologies
- Semantic Web
- Vocabularies