HR: 08:00h
AN: IN41B-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Key Enablers for Earth and Space Science Advances
AU: * McGuinness, D L
EM: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University and McGuinness Associates, 20 Peter Coutts Circle, Stanford, ca 94305
AB: Ontologies and ontology web languages, such as OWL, are beginning to have significant impacts in a broad range of scientific and other disciplines. Specifically, the opportunity to unambigously provide declarative and operational specifications of term meanings and connect those specifications to documents and data sets containing those terms, has the potential to revolutionize interoperability of data and documents. We have begun a few efforts to leverage scientific ontologies to support interoperability of scientific data by providing tools and infrastructure that utilize definitions of scientific terms that are captured in ontologies and linked on the web. We will discuss both our infrastructure and also provide an introduction to how the emerging semantic web may be leveraged to advance earth and space science.
DE: 9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005