HR: 1340h
AN: IN53B-1204    [Abstracts]
TI: Developing packages and integrating ontologies for Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics and Atmospheric Science Data Integration
AU: Sinha, K
EM: pitlab@vt.edu
AF: Virginia Tech., 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States
AU: Raskin, R
EM: Robert.Raskin@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: JPL/NASA, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91011, United States
AU: McGuinness, D
EM: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu
AF: McGuinness Assoc., 20 Peter Coutts Circle, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
AU: * Fox, P
EM: pfox@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, United States
AB: In support of a NASA-funded scientific application (SESDI; Semantically Enabled Science Data Integration Project; that needs to share volcano and climate data to investigate relationships between volcanism and global climate, we have generated a volcano and plate tectonic ontologies and leveraged and augmented the existing SWEET (Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology) ontoloy. Our goal is to create a package for integrating the relevant ontologies (meant to be shared and reused by a broad community of users) to provide access to the key volcanology, plate tectonic and atmospheric related databases. We present how we have put ontologies to work in this science application setting, and the methodologies employed to create the ontologies, map them to the underlying data and implement them for use by scientists. SESDI is an NASA/ESTO/ACCESS-funded project involving the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), McGuinness Associates Consulting, NASA/JPL and Virginia Polytechnic University.
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: 2007 Fall Meeting