Attn: Rich - RE: [seek-kr-sms] SMS Partial Design -- Request for Comments

[Manu Juyal]

Rich,
Peter and I have been looking into the mapping issues from EML to Ontologies. 
If you are also looking into the similar issues, we can easily combine our 
efforts.
I'll write to you in detail later.

manu 


Quoting Rich Williams <rwilliams at nceas.ucsb.edu>:

> I agree that metadata to semantics is a generic issue, not just an issue
> for
> EML.  For example, I expect that we'll find it useful to grab the
> basic
> structure (syntax) of an actor from the MoML when semantically
> describing
> it.  For now, I think EML is particularly important since it's in use
> and
> has significant semantic content.  The ontologies currently provide a
> basic
> framework that should be able to handle the mapping, though I'm sure
> that
> implementing the mapping will reveal plenty of holes in the details. 
> I'm
> ready to work on it if there's consensus that this is an important
> direction.
> 
> Rich
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shawn Bowers [mailto:bowers at sdsc.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 9:32 PM
> > To: Rich Williams
> > Cc: seek-kr-sms at ecoinformatics.org; Dave Thau; Ilkay Altintas;
> Joseph
> > Goguen; Jenny Guilian WANG
> > Subject: Re: [seek-kr-sms] SMS Partial Design -- Request for
> Comments
> >
> >
> >
> > This makes sense to me: do the metadata "harvesting" first to build
> the
> > initial "template" (or as you say, high-level mapping); then let the
> > data or service provider fill in the additional mapping as needed.
> >
> > Note also that there may be different types of metadata: EML for
> > datasets (there are possibly others for datasets, but we seem focused
> on
> > EML) and MoML or WSDL for services.  Not sure how much can be
> obtained
> > from the service ones.
> >
> > I also wonder if the ontologies are already close to being able to
> > handle the mapping from the high-level EML.  We should look into
> this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shawn
> >
> > Rich Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Good stuff Shawn!  Here are a few comments on the registration
> > mapping part,
> > > mainly to do with EML.  I think it's important to leverage the
> > work done on
> > > EML and integrate it with the semantics.  We need to establish a
> mapping
> > > between EML and the OWL ontologies and capture the semantics that
> are
> > > implicit in EML.
> > >
> > > I think that a lot of the semantic description of the dataset as a
> whole
> > > could be derived from the EML metadata, assuming it is
> > reasonably complete.
> > > For example, information about the spatial and temporal extent of
> the
> > > dataset and about the observed taxa should be in the metadata.
> > Then rather
> > > than handing the user an essentially empty mapping, we will
> > have initialized
> > > the mapping as far as possible from the EML metadata.
> > >
> > > Given a data set with EML metadata, I see a two-stage semantic
> > registration:
> > >
> > > 1)	Automatically create high-level (data set and data table level)
> RDF
> > > individuals for an EML-described data set.  They will be useful
> > for allowing
> > > a high level search of a data set, which can be rejected if
> > there's nothing
> > > of interest in the RDF individuals before the more detailed
> semantic
> > > registration is used.
> > >
> > > 2)	Create a lower-level semantic registration of individual
> > fields in a data
> > > table.  This will refer to the higher-level EML-based
> > individuals for parts
> > > of the context that do not change from field to field.  When doing
> a
> > > semantic query, these individuals will only need to be instantiated
> and
> > > queried if thtere is a higher-level match (#1 above).
> > >
> > > Given this, in your document, I think it would make sense to
> > re-order the
> > > sequence proposed, so that step 6 happens before steps 2-5.
> > >
> > > Rich
> 
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regards,
Manu Juyal
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