Current and future uses of owl for earth and space science data frameworks: successes and limitations

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1. Patrick West, Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini. Current and future uses of OWL for Earth and Space science data frameworks: successes and limitations , American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (AGU2007) (Eos Trans. AGU 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN53B-1207), 2007

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@inproceedings { west2007current ,
  author = "Patrick West, Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini", 
booktitle = "American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (AGU2007)", 
note = "Eos Trans. AGU 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN53B-1207", 
title = "Current and future uses of OWL for Earth and Space science data frameworks: successes and limitations", 
year = "2007", 
} 

abstract: Based on almost three years of experience in developing and deploying scientific data frameworks built using semantic technologies, we now have a production virtual observatory in operation, serving two broad communities: solar physics and terrestrial upper atmospheric physics. Within this application, a data framework provides online location, retrieval, and analysis services to a variety of heterogeneous scientific data sources distributed over the internet. We describe selected current and planned uses of our ontologies in OWL-DL, and tools involved in development and deployment. We describe both successes and limitations we have found to date using OWL- based technologies, especially tool support. We also indicate the important components we require from a robust technical infrastructure as we move forward with expanding the functionality of the frameworks. This expansion includes additional semantic representation and reasoning/query services as well as broadening the scope of our scientific disciplines.

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