[seek-kr] Re: MORIS

Chad Berkley berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
Mon Sep 22 16:05:13 PDT 2003


I'm not completely sure about the specific details.  Probably just 
writing to him would be the best way to find out.  The query thing was 
for the whole system and it sounds like they have lots of big ontologies.

chad

Shawn Bowers wrote:
> 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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Chad Berkley
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