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Using Spatiotemporal Information to Integrate Heterogeneous Biodiversity Semantic Data

Flor Karina Amanqui, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle, and Dilvan Moreira

Biodiversity is essential to life on Earth and motivates many efforts to collect data about species. These data are collected in different places and published in different formats. Researchers use it to extract new knowledge about living things, but it is difficult to retrieve, combine and integrate data sources from different places. This work will investigate how to integrate biodiversity information from heterogeneous sources using Semantic Web technologies. Its main objective is to propose an architecture to link biodiversity data using mainly their spatiotemporal dimension, effectively search these linked data sets and test them using real use cases, defined with the help of biodiversity experts. It is also an important objective to propose a suitable provenance model that captures not only data origin but also temporal information. This architecture will be tested on a set of representative data from important Brazilian institutions that are involved in studies of biodiversity.

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Published in 2016 in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering.

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@inproceedings{amanqui_icwe_2016,
  author = {Amanqui, Flor Karina and Verborgh, Ruben and Mannens, Erik and Van de Walle, Rik and Moreira, Dilvan},
  title = {Using Spatiotemporal Information to Integrate Heterogeneous Biodiversity Semantic Data},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering},
  editor = {Bozzon, Alessandro and Cudr\'e-Mauroux, Philippe and Pautasso, Cesare},
  year = 2016,
  month = jun,
  pages = {525--530},
  volume = 9671,
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  publisher = {Springer},
  isbn = {978-3-319-38791-8},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-38791-8_41},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38791-8_41},
}

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Flor Karina Amanqui, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle, and Dilvan Moreira. 2016. Using Spatiotemporal Information to Integrate Heterogeneous Biodiversity Semantic Data. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer, 525–530.
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Amanqui, F. K., Verborgh, R., Mannens, E., Van de Walle, R., & Moreira, D. (2016). Using Spatiotemporal Information to Integrate Heterogeneous Biodiversity Semantic Data. In A. Bozzon, P. Cudré-Mauroux, & C. Pautasso (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (Vol. 9671, pp. 525–530). Springer.
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F. K. Amanqui, R. Verborgh, E. Mannens, R. Van de Walle, and D. Moreira, “Using Spatiotemporal Information to Integrate Heterogeneous Biodiversity Semantic Data,” in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering, 2016, vol. 9671, pp. 525–530.
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Amanqui, F.K., Verborgh, R., Mannens, E., Van de Walle, R., Moreira, D.: Using Spatiotemporal Information to Integrate Heterogeneous Biodiversity Semantic Data. In: Bozzon, A., Cudré-Mauroux, P., and Pautasso, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering. pp. 525–530. Springer (2016).
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Amanqui, Flor Karina, et al. “Using Spatiotemporal Information to Integrate Heterogeneous Biodiversity Semantic Data.” Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering, edited by Alessandro Bozzon et al., vol. 9671, Springer, 2016, pp. 525–30.

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