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BiodivOnto: Towards a Core Ontology for Biodiversity

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Abstract

Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth which covers the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural processes that sustain life. Therefore, it is important to understand where biodiversity is, how it is changing over space and time, the driving factors of these changes and the resulting consequences on the diversity of life. To do so, it is necessary to describe and integrate the conditions and measures of biodiversity to fully capture the domain. In this paper, we present the design of a core ontology for biodiversity aiming to establish a link between the foundational and domain-specific ontologies. The proposed ontology is designed using the fusion/merge strategy by reusing existing ontologies and it is guided by data from several resources in the biodiversity domain.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://ipbes.net/global-assessment.

  2. 2.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/ENVO.

  3. 3.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/IOBC.

  4. 4.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/BFO.

  5. 5.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/GFO.

  6. 6.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/.

  7. 7.

    http://agroportal.lirmm.fr.

  8. 8.

    https://china.befdata.biow.uni-leipzig.de/.

  9. 9.

    https://data.world/.

  10. 10.

    https://github.com/fusion-jena/BiodivOnto/tree/main/data.

  11. 11.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/SWEET.

  12. 12.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/ECOCORE.

  13. 13.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/ECSO.

  14. 14.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/CBO.

  15. 15.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/BCO.

  16. 16.

    https://www.biodiversitya-z.org/.

  17. 17.

    http://www.aquadiva.uni-jena.de/.

  18. 18.

    https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PATO.

  19. 19.

    https://github.com/fusion-jena/BiodivOnto.

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The authors thank the Carl Zeiss Foundation for the financial support of the project “A Virtual Werkstatt for Digitization in the Sciences (K3, P5)” within the scope of the program line “Breakthroughs: Exploring Intelligent Systems” for “Digitization - explore the basics, use applications”. Alsayed Algergawy’ work has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of CRC 1076 AquaDiva. Our sincere thanks to Tina Heger (Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)) as the domain expert.

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    Nora Abdelmageed, Alsayed Algergawy, Sheeba Samuel & Birgitta König-Ries

  2. Computer Vision Group, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

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  3. Michael Stifel Center Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

    Nora Abdelmageed, Sheeba Samuel & Birgitta König-Ries

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Abdelmageed, N., Algergawy, A., Samuel, S., König-Ries, B. (2021). BiodivOnto: Towards a Core Ontology for Biodiversity. In: Verborgh, R., et al. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2021 Satellite Events. ESWC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12739. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80418-3_1

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