Dr Siddeswara Guru1, Dr Nicholas Car2, Miss Junrong Yu1, Dr Mieke Strong3
1University Of Queensland, Indooroopilly, Australia, 2KurrawongAI, Brisbane, Australia, 3Gaia Resources, Brisbane, Australia
Biography:
Siddeswara Guru is the program lead of TERN Data Services and Analytics
Nic Car is the founder, Data Architect in KurrawongAI
Junrong Yu is the software Engineer in the TERN Data Services and Analytics
Mieke Strong is aBusiness Analyst and Data Management expert in the Gaia Resources.
Abstract:
The vision of the Semantic Web is to provide artefacts on the web and make them machine-readable. This will enable machines to negotiate content on behalf of humans.
The Semantic Web approach for scientific data management will significantly improve the discoverability and accessibility of data. However, it presents several challenges, including determining the standard representation of artefacts, the need for standardised ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and tools to create and access its complex data formats.
Over the past several years, significant efforts have been made in the Earth and environment science domains to develop domain ontologies, domain-specific controlled vocabularies, and tools to discover and access these artefacts. Apart from the Research Infrastructure project, the Australian federal and state government agencies are building and adopting solutions to make their data semantic-enabled.
The BoF will be a mixture of presentations and group discussions to bring together the community of individuals working on semantic web solutions. The presentations will outline a semantic web approach to managing biodiversity and ecosystem data within the Australian context, including the development of domain ontologies and controlled vocabularies, as well as the creation of data exchange profiles, data ingestion processes and repository development. In addition, the organisers will showcase some of the recent tools that have been developed.