Semantically-enabled virtual observatories

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1. Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, James L. Benedict, J. Anthony Darnell, Jose M. Garcia, Don Middleton. Semantically-Enabled Virtual Observatories , Proceedings of the OWLED06 Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2006

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@inproceedings { KSL-06-18 ,
  author = "Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, James L. Benedict, J. Anthony Darnell, Jose M. Garcia, Don Middleton", 
booktitle = "Proceedings of the OWLED06 Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions", 
title = "Semantically-Enabled Virtual Observatories", 
year = "2006", 
} 

abstract: We are developing a semantic data framework for virtual observatories. A Virtual Observatory provides online location, retrieval, and analysis services to a variety of heterogeneous scientific data sources. We employ semantic technologies to integrate data and provide "intelligent" services such as ontology-enhanced search, analysis, and data visualization. Our specific initial deployments are in the field of solar-terrestrial physics where we target atmospheric and solar researchers as end users. In this paper, we describe our general use case, our approach using OWL-DL and related tools, and our initial deployment. We describe what we have found as benefits and challenges using OWL-based semantic technologies in our efforts building an operational system. Our system is deployed in two scientific data collections with community usage migration starting now.

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• paper: KSL-06-18.pdf (http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS//Vol-216/submission_14.pdf)
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