From: Chris M. <cj...@be...> - 2009-03-03 21:52:59
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Sounds interesting! Do you have a sense of what kind of databased information will be available behind the portal? Do these databases already exist? Who will use it and why? Are you asking for money just for ontology development, or for portal technology development too? What ontologies do you envision comprising the environmental counterpart to the OBO Foundry? I suppose the options are (i) split EnvO into separate ontologies for processes, rocks etc or (ii) broaden the scope of EnvO and make it inclusive of everything environment- related. What kind of reasoning do you imagine doing with rocks? I'm keen to explore new applications of reasoning, but I think this is most interesting when data which uses the ontology is available. On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Norman Morrison wrote: > Dear EnvO collaborators, > > To help support the development of EnvO, Dawn and I have been thinking > of submitting a grant to the Technologies Theme within NERC. It is a > brand new scheme and will include informatics in its scope. > > We are thinking of casting EnvO within a larger project tentatively > called 'OneEnvironment'. It will be loosely based on the very > successful > OneGeology project (http://www.onegeology.org/). > > The long term view is that the the OneEnvironment community project > will > be a web accessible, geospatially linked portal for accessing data > based > on environmental information. As an early stage of building this > portal, > we will need a common language so that both computers and humans > have a > shared understanding of environmental terms. To enable this, we will > extend the EnvO project with more terms and relations. > > As part of this work we would also like to propose that we start an > Environmental Processes Ontology (as previously discussed during > some of > the EnvO workshops), this would include terminology such as > deforestation, leeching, evaporation, urbanization... etc. > > Further to this we have had significant interest from a number of NERC > institutions in the development of ontologies to represent their data, > including the British Geological Survey (BGS), British Antarctic > Survey > (BAS) and British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). We would like to > discuss the idea of an Open Environmental Ontologies Foundry to build > ontologies within either the larger OBO Foundry or as a complementary > foundry activity to encourage best practice within the environmental > community. > > As a specific part of the larger thinking outlined above, we would > build > upon the British Geological Survey's Rock classification to extend the > 'environmental material' branch of the current EnvO. The BGS rock > classification would form a nice defined work package as the > classification has been developed over many years and is quite > rigorous. > Our hope is that we could apply some more detailed reasoning to this > classification and demonstrate what could be achieved within the > larger > EnvO framework. > > We are just developing the concept and would like to test the waters > with you to get feedback and hopefully ask for letters of support. The > amount we can ask for is rather small in the first instance (80-100k) > but there will be further rounds of funding. The time seems to be > right > - lets hope this is just the beginning of something much bigger. > > All the best, > Norman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San > Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source > code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Obo-envo mailing list > Obo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/obo-envo > |