HR: 1340h
AN: IN43A-0321    [Abstracts]
TI: Developing a Domain Ontology for the Hydrologic Community
AU: Piasecki, M
EM: Michael.Piasecki@drexel.edu
AF: Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadlephia, PA 19104
AU: * Beran, B
EM: bb63@drexel.edu
AF: Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadlephia, PA 19104
AB: The purpose of this study is to develop a domain ontology for hydraulic science and engineering by extending the Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) ontologies. SWEET provides an extensive list of terms for Earth Sciences expressed in Web Ontology Language (OWL). When compared to SWEET, our proposed ontology is much smaller in scope but more detailed within its domain. Extensions can involve different type of additions such as introduction of new terms (e.g. Hydrologic Unit, Jetty etc.) some of which may depend on other features (e.g. upstream, downstream depends on flow direction), increasing the level of detail for an existing element (e.g. by creating subclasses of EarthRealm:Dams, and adding dam types - Cofferdam, arch dam, embankment dam etc.-) or introducing new phenomena based on existing processes in the SWEET ontologies. Development of this ontology follows the scalability, orthogonality, application-independence and natural language-independence principles. Besides itself being an example of community involvement, contributions and critique from other members of hydrologic community will help further shaping this product to fit the needs of a larger neighboring user community
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 0599 General or miscellaneous
DE: 1819 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005