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Ontology-driven integration of scientific repositories

1999

There is an increasing need to provide scientists and researchers as well as policy makers and the general public with valueadded services integrating information spread over distributed heterogeneous repositories. In order to incorporate available data sets and scientific programs into a powerful information and computational system it is mandatory to identify and exploit their semantic relationship.

From workflows to Research Objects: an architecture for preserving the semantics of science

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science, 2012

Research Objects (ROs) provide a flexible model to collate and describe the semantic context of science. In this position paper we describe how ROs can also provide a foundation for interoperability within RESTful architecture design, enabling the development of new services and clients alongside compatible enhancements to existing software including myExperiment. To illustrate this we introduce an infrastructure, known as the Wf4Ever Toolkit, providing services and clients to encapsulate, preserve, and re-use ROs.

Integrating Inter-disciplinary Science Data with Semantic Mediation

We present results of a research effort into the application of semantic web methods and technologies to address the challenging problem of integrating data from heterogeneous sources-in particular from volcanic and atmospheric chemistry data in support of assessing a particular science question: what are measureable atmospheric effects of of a volcanic eruption. The introduction of formal semantics in our methods and into the implemented technical infrastructure allows scientists to ask measurement based ...

The semantic grid: A future e-science infrastructure

2003

Scientific research and development has always involved large numbers of people, with different types and levels of expertise, working in a variety of roles, both separately and together, making use of and extending the body of knowledge. In recent years, however, there have been a number of important changes in the nature and the process of research.

CRC806-Database: A semantic e-Science infrastructure for an interdisciplinary research centre

2016

Well designed information infrastructure improves the conduct of research, and can connect researchers and projects across disciplines to facilitate collaboration. The topic of this thesis is the design and development of an information infrastructure for a large interdisciplinary research project, the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre 806 (CRC 806). Under the name CRC806-Database the presented infrastructure was developed in the frame of the subproject "Z2: Data Management and Data Services", a so-called INF project, which is responsible for the research data management within a DFG funded CRC. During the design, development and implementation of the CRC806-Database, the complex requirements for sound data management in the context of a large interdisciplinary research project were considered theoretically, as well as practically during the implementation. The presented infrastructure design is mainly based on the requirements for research data management in CRC&#3...