[seek-kr] Re: MORIS

[Matt Jones]

Chad,

Thanks. This sounds very interesting.  Did he give you a URL for his 
work, or some papers?

Sean or Rich -- will one of you follow up on this?

Chad -- could you send stuff like this to "seek-kr at ecoinformatics.org" 
or "seek-dev at ecoinformatics.org" instead of individuals so that everyone 
interested will know about it?  Thanks,

Matt

Chad Berkley wrote:
> Hey Matt, Bertram and Mark,
> 
> I met a guy from Austria this weekend that has a very interresting 
> ontology/semantic query system.  His name is Michael Mirtl 
> (mirtl at ubavie.gv.at) and he works at tha Austrian Umweltbundesamt (I 
> think it kind of the equivalent to a cross between the department of the 
> interior and the EPA).  He said they've been creating ontologies for the 
> ecological data they've been collecting since 1995 and have an Oracle 
> database application that implements more than 10000 queries within 
> their ontology/semantic mediation system.  It sounds like this system 
> does much of what we've been looking at doing with SMS.  He said that 
> they would be willing to provide the system for free but that it is an 
> Oracle only system since it was built with ProBuilder.
> 
> He was a huge advocate of creating ontologies and stood up after my talk 
> and told all the LTER people that they should be contributing ontologies 
> to the SEEK project.  I think at the least, we could learn from the 
> development of their system even if we didn't want to use it outright.
> 
> Anyway, he seemed like a cool guy with a working system and he seemed 
> like he'd be interrested in collaborating and invited me (and/or anyone 
> else from SEEK) to come to Vienna to see what their doing.  if you're 
> interrested, we should get in touch with him.
> 
> chad

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