TDWG lecture shedding light on ontologies?
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SYM12 Connecting biodiversity data with knowledge graphs
Session Type: Symposium (unsolicited presentations considered)
Organizers: Roderic D.M. Page, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK; Franck Michel, University Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France
Linking biodiversity data together is an implicit goal of many initiatives in biodiversity informatics. Taxonomic databases were early adopters of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a building block for the Semantic Web. From 2006 onwards they were serving up millions of taxonomic names in RDF, each with a globally unique identifier such as Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs), hence the field was seemingly ripe for a "biodiversity knowledge graph", a network of interconnected data that we could use to discover links between taxa, their names, the relevant publications, specimens, occurrences, traits, phenotypes, DNA sequences, and the people whose work enabled the creation of that knowledge.
However the biodiversity knowledge graph did not spontaneously assemble itself, suggesting that more work needs to be done before the knowledge graph becomes a key tool for integrating and exploring biodiversity data. This session will explore progress and prospects for constructing and exploiting biodiversity knowledge graphs, whether centered around broader efforts such as Wikidata or DBpedia, or more focussed on domain-specific initiatives such as Ozymandias and OpenBiodiv. In addition to these case studies, speakers in the session will explore the relationships between TDWG standards, data formats such as JSON-LD, markup vocabularies such as Bioschemas and the role nanopubs can play in disseminating and linking biodiversity knowledge. The session will also welcome presentations on the joint exploitation and cross-fertilization of biodiversity knowledge graphs and more "traditional" biodiversity data sources.
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