[seek-kr] Re: MORIS

[Chad Berkley]

The url for their department is www.ubavie.gv.at but I couldn't really 
find any info on MORIS there.  I'm sure Michael could point us to the 
right spot.

chad

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.
>>
>> 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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Chad Berkley
National Center for
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berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
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