HR: 1340h
AN: IN43A-0324    [Abstracts]
TI: Solar-Terrestrial Ontology Development
AU: * McGuinness, D
IN43A-0324 AF: McGuinness Associates, 20 Peter Coutts Circle, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
AU: Fox, P
EM: pfox@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Middleton, D
EM: don@ucar.edu
AF: SCD/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Garcia, J
EM: jgarcia@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Cinquni, L
EM: luca@ucar.edu
AF: SCD/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: West, P
EM: pwest@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Darnell, J A
EM: tdarnell@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Benedict, J
EM: jbenedict@mcguinnessassociates.com
AF: McGuinness Associates, 20 Peter Coutts Circle, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
AB: The development of an interdisciplinary virtual observatory (the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory; VSTO) as a scalable environment for searching, integrating, and analyzing databases distributed over the Internet requires a higher level of semantic interoperability than here-to-fore required by most (if not all) distributed data systems or discipline specific virtual observatories. The formalization of semantics using ontologies and their encodings for the internet (e.g. OWL - the Web Ontology Language), as well as the use of accompanying tools, such as reasoning, inference and explanation, open up both a substantial leap in options for interoperability and in the need for formal development principles to guide ontology development and use within modern, multi-tiered network data environments. In this presentation, we outline the formal methodologies we utilize in the VSTO project, the currently developed use-cases, ontologies and their relation to existing ontologies (such as SWEET).
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