]> 2012-02-11T03:39:00-05:00 Semantic integration of heterogeneous volcanic and atmospheric data The vast majority of explorations of the Earth system are limited in their ability to effectively explore the most important (often most difficult) problems because they are forced to interconnect at the data-element, or syntactic, level rather than at a higher scientific, or semantic, level. In many cases, syntax-only interoperability IS the state-of-the-art. Currently, in order for scientists and non-scientists to discover, access, and use data from unfamiliar sources, they are forced to learn details of the data schema, other people's naming schemes and syntax decisions. These constraints are limiting even when researchers are looking for information in their own discipline, but they present even greater challenges when researchers are looking for information spanning multiple disciplines, including some in which they are not extensively trained. Our project, the Semantically-Enabled Scientific Data Integration (hereafter SESDI), aims to demonstrate how ontologies implemented within existing distributed technology frameworks will provide essential, re-useable, and robust, support necessary for interdisciplinary scientific research activities. inproceedings Proceedings of the Geoinformatics 2007 Conferece mcguinness2007semantic Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Volcanic and Atmospheric Data 2007 Year Title Natural science Tag Paper url May Month Key Booktitle Bibtype Robert G. Raskin A. Krishna Sinha Peter Fox Deborah L. McGuinness Author San Diego, Ca. Address Abstract Publication Proceeding Paper Conference Paper