The document discusses using the SERONTO ontology to semantically integrate three biodiversity datasets. SERONTO was developed by the ALTER-Net Network of Excellence to allow interoperability across heterogeneous data resources from multiple institutions and scientific domains. The project aims to integrate the National Biodiversity Network Gateway, Countryside Survey, and Environmental Change Network datasets using SERONTO. This will create a distributed system that can be extended to integrate other biodiversity data, demonstrating SERONTO's ability to integrate biodiversity data at different scales.

1. Semantic Data Integration of Biodiversity
Data with the SERONTO Ontology
NICOLAS BERTRAND , Herbert Schentz , Bert Van Der Werf , Barbara Magagna ,
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Johannes Peterseil , Terry Parr , Michael Mirtl | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology,
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United Kingdom; Umweltbundesamt, Austria; Alterra, Netherlands
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Introduction Socio-ecological Research & Observation Ontology
The SERONTO framework, a product of the Network
of Excellence ALTER-Net, was developed to allow An Observations and Measurements SERONTO with Domain Ontologies
seamless access and querying of heterogeneous data Ontology
resources across multiple institutions and several
scientific domains.
The establishment of syntactical and semantical
interoperability of data resources and services are seen
as indispensable requirement for integrating socio-
ecological and ecological sciences at a global scale. To
achieve the semantic interopability the Socio-Ecological
Research and Observation oNTOlogy (SERONTO) has
been developed as an extensible semantic framework.
This poster presents a project that uses SERONTO
to integrate three specific biodiversity datasets. This
approach will lead a distributed system that can be SERONTO Design Principles
readily extended to other datasets effectly becoming
Support for Reference Lists In order to be useful for data
a proof of concept for the use of Lifewatch research
infrastructure developments for the integration of integration, query, analysis and
biodiversity data synthesis SERONTO aspires to
be:
About LifeWatch ■ logical, transparent and
machine readable- easy to use
■ refelects the realities of the
domains covered
■ bring together metadata and
concrete data as well as
semantics
■ efficient for queries
■ minimizing storage
■ scientifically sound
■ standards compliant
Source Datasets
National Biodiversity Network Gateway Countryside Survey Environmental Change Network
data.nbn.org.uk www.countrysidesurvey.org.uk www.ecn.ac.uk
Data Integration
Integrating
biodiversity data
at different scales
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