Biodiversity databases have recently become widely available to the public and to other researchers. To retrieve information from these resources, users must understand the underl...
Bongshin Lee, Cynthia Sims Parr, Dana Campbell, Be...
With the evolution of the Web evolving towards the Semantic Web, where the information should be presented in a meaningful way for both humans and machines, arises the need for sem...
A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifi...
Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial structural information, and are typically the key elements in integration eorts, however there ha...
At least two kinds of relations exist among related words: taxonomical relations and thematic relations. Both relations identify related words useful to language understanding and...