HR: 17:50h
AN: IN24A-05    [Abstracts]
TI: A Foundational Approach to Designing Geoscience Ontologies
AU: * Brodaric, B
EM: brodaric@nrcan.gc.ca
AF: Geological Survey of Canada, 234B - 615 Booth St., Ottawa, ON K1A0E9, Canada
AB: E-science systems are increasingly deploying ontologies to aid online geoscience research. Geoscience ontologies are typically constructed independently by isolated individuals or groups who tend to follow few design principles. This limits the usability of the ontologies due to conceptualizations that are vague, conflicting, or narrow. Advances in foundational ontologies and formal engineering approaches offer promising solutions, but these advanced techniques have had limited application in the geosciences. This paper develops a design approach for geoscience ontologies by extending aspects of the DOLCE foundational ontology and the OntoClean method. Geoscience examples will be presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.
DE: 0525 Data management
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2009 Joint Assembly