tdwg2011

Semantic extensions to ecoRelevé

Olivier Rovellotti

• The projet• The Sem Web• The extentions

Reduce Software complexity

For who?

People we know:

People we don’t know?

Define Protocols Collect data

Analyzedata

AskQuestions

Data Admin

What for?

Citizen Science

Professional Research

PHD

DBA/GIS

3 Modules

RDF

2007

2009

Life Science

2012

Now what ?

What is it good for?

• Better annotations• Easier data integration• More extensible• More expressive

Controlled Vocabularies:

Build protocols forms

Enhance existing dataset

Aggregate data

Annotations

ecoRelevé

Core

1.0

Observation Layers

Data integration

ecoRelevé

explorer

Data enhancement

4 dimensions

Time

Biology

Space

People

Time

Biology

Space

PeopleFriends

Work

FOAF

Localities Protected Areas

Last weekAt the same time as

Conservation Status

Family

GeoSparql

Data connector

Milan royalMilvus milvusRed Kite

Rod Page - what can you do with it ?

SPARQL:Catch the frog

select ?scientificName, ?status, ?lat, ?long FROM <urn:rdf.TdwgFroggyChallenge>where { ?s rdf:type uniprot:Molecule . ?s terms:relation ?id. ?s terms:subject ?taxonInGB . ?id geo:lat ?lat. ?id geo:long ?long.  ?taxonInDbPedia dbOwl:conservationStatus ?status. ?taxonInGB rdfs:seeAlso ?taxonInDbPedia. ?taxonInGB uniprot:scientificName ?scientificName.}

ecoReleve

SparQL

TAISTY!

Take home message :

• There is a learning curve• But RDF is not that difficult• One API is better than 10 • We need data in RDF to experiment

• Reasoning is for later …

Thanks ..

@orovellotti