dan bunker traitnet rcn: foster the curation, discovery, and sharing of ecological trait data
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Dan Bunker
TraitNet RCN: Foster the curation, discovery, and sharing of ecological trait data
TraitNet Ontology Development
• NJIT & Columbia– Dan Bunker, Shahid Naeem, Farshid Ahrestani
• NCEAS: – Mark Schildhauer, Matt Jones, Shawn Bowers
• CNRS, France: – Eric Garnier, Marie-Angelique Laporte, Isabelle
Mougenot
• Many additional ecologists and information scientists
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Plant Functional Trait Ontology
• Why? To facilitate recycling of ecological trait data
• What? Functional traits == phenotypes!– Often quantitative: Leaf Mass, Maximum
photosynthetic rates
• Tools? Protégé 4, OWL, OBOE plug-in • Needs? Examples of implementations
to reify/curate/serve/query triples
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OBOE: Extensible Observation Ontology
Madin, Bowers, Schildhauer, and Jones 2008 TREE
Leaf
Mass
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