]> 2012-02-11T04:45:36-05:00 Current and future uses of owl for earth and space science data frameworks: successes and limitations 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. inproceedings American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (AGU2007) west2007current Current and future uses of OWL for Earth and Space science data frameworks: successes and limitations 2007 Year Title Natural science Tag Eos Trans. AGU 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN53B-1207 Note December Month Key Booktitle Bibtype Luca Cinquini Peter Fox Deborah L. McGuinness Patrick West Author San Francisco, Ca. Address Abstract Publication Proceeding Paper Conference Paper