Experiences of a semantics smackdown
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Leadbetter, Adam
Shepherd, Adam
Arko, Robert
Chandler, Cyndy
Chen, Yanning
Dockery, Nkemdirim
Ferreira, Renata
Fu, Linyun
Thomas, Robert
West, Patrick
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2016-02-18
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Within the field of ocean science there is a long history of using controlled vocabularies and other Semantic Web techniques to provide a common and easily exchanged description of datasets. As an activity within the European Union, United States, Australian-funded project “Ocean Data Interoperability Platform”, a workshop took place in June 2014 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to further the use of these Semantic Web techniques with the aim of producing a set Linked Data publication patterns which describe many parts of a marine science dataset. During the workshop, a Semantic Web development methodology was followed which promoted the use of a team with mixed skills (computer, data and marine science experts) to rapidly prototype a model ontology which could be iterated in the future. In this paper we outline the methodology employed in the workshop, and examine both the technical and sociological outcomes of a workshop of this kind.
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Earth Science Informatics