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AN: IN51C-01 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: DOLCE ROCKS: Integrating Foundational and Geoscience Ontologies--Preliminary Results for the Integration of Concepts from DOLCE, GeoSciML, and SWEET
AU: * Brodaric, B
EM: brodaric@nrcan.gc.ca
AF: Geological Survey of Canada, 234B – 615 Booth St., Ottawa, ON K1A 0E9, Canada
AU: Probst, F
EM: f.probst@uni-muenster.de
AF: University of Munster, Robert-Koch-Str. 26 – 28, Munster, 48149, Germany
AB: Ontologies are being developed bottom-up in many geoscience domains to aid semantic-enabled computing. The contents of these ontologies are typically partitioned along domain boundaries, such as geology, geophsyics, hydrology, or are developed for specific data sets or processing needs. At the same time, very general foundational ontologies are being independently developed top-down to help facilitate integration of knowledge across such domains, and to provide homogeneity to the organization of knowledge within the domains. In this work we investigate the suitability of integrating the DOLCE foundational ontology with concepts from two prominent geoscience knowledge representations, GeoSciML and SWEET, to investigate the alignment of the concepts found within the foundational and domain representations. The geoscience concepts are partially mapped to each other and to those in the foundational ontology, via the subclass and other relations, resulting in an integrated OWL-based ontology called DOLCE ROCKS. These preliminary results demonstrate variable alignment between the foundational and domain concepts, and also between the domain concepts. Further work is required to ascertain the impact of this integrated ontology approach on broader geoscience ontology design, on the unification of domain ontologies, as well as their use within semantic-enabled geoscience applications.
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 0545 Modeling (4255)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting