[seek-kr] Re: MORIS

[Shawn Bowers]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Matt Jones wrote:

> 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.


Chad, do you know what the system does? Is it for executing
workflows, integrating disparate datasets, document/dataset retrieval, or
for some other purpose.  It would definately be interesting to see the
ontologies they use... and to see what the queries (10000 queries seems
like a lot) are for.  What applications they have built, etc. 


> > 
> > 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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