]> 2012-05-27T23:41:34-04:00 Solar-terrestrial data integration using ontologies Data-integration across a number of disciplines is a key requirement to be facilitated by virtual observatories and in particular the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory(VSTO). Our experience to date indicates that semantic interoperability is a viable and robust approach. We have encodings for the VSTO ontology in OWL - the Web Ontology Language - using both open-source and commercial tools and have implemented a number of use-cases. We aim to demonstrate data-integration between solar atmospheric data (e.g. coronal mass ejections), and the resulting impacts on the terrestrial ionosphere (e.g.aurora). In this presentation, we outline the methodologies, the developed use-cases, ontologies and their current implementation. inproceedings American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly cinquini2006solar-terrestrial Solar-Terrestrial Data Integration using Ontologies 2006 Year Title Natural science Tag May Month Key Booktitle Bibtype Patrick West Jose M. Garcia Don Middleton Tony Darnell James L. Benedict Peter Fox Deborah L. McGuinness Luca Cinquini Author Baltimore, Maryland Address Abstract Publication Proceeding Paper Conference Paper