Experiences of a “semantics smackdown”
Leadbetter, Adam M. Shepherd, Adam Arko, Robert Chandler, Cynthia Chen, Yanning Dockery, Nkemdirim Ferreira, Renata Fu, Linyun Thomas, Robert West, Patrick
Leadbetter, Adam M.
Shepherd, Adam
Arko, Robert
Chandler, Cynthia
Chen, Yanning
Dockery, Nkemdirim
Ferreira, Renata
Fu, Linyun
Thomas, Robert
West, Patrick
Citations
Altmetric
item.page.identifiers
Date
2016-02-18
item.page.type
journal article
item.page.downloads
Citation
Leadbetter, Adam M. Shepherd, Adam; Arko, Robert; Chandler, Cynthia; Chen, Yanning; Dockery, Nkemdirim; Ferreira, Renata; Fu, Linyun; Thomas, Robert; West, Patrick; Zednik, Stephan (2016). Experiences of a “semantics smackdown”. Earth Science Informatics 9 (3), 355-363
Abstract
Within the field of ocean science there is a long history of using controlled vocabularies and other Semantic Web techniques to provide a common and easily exchanged description of datasets. As an activity within the European Union, United States, Australian-funded project 'Ocean Data Interoperability Platform', a workshop took place in June 2014 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to further the use of these Semantic Web techniques with the aim of producing a set Linked Data publication patterns which describe many parts of a marine science dataset. During the workshop, a Semantic Web development methodology was followed which promoted the use of a team with mixed skills (computer, data and marine science experts) to rapidly prototype a model ontology which could be iterated in the future. In this paper we outline the methodology employed in the workshop, and examine both the technical and sociological outcomes of a workshop of this kind.
item.page.funder
Publisher
Springer Nature