@conference {W14-02, title = {W12-03: The Biological Collections Ontology for linking traditional and contemporary biodiversity data}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {

Biodiversity data comes from many sources, ranging from museum specimens to field surveys to genomic sequences. Domain specific standards provide vocabularies for many types of these data, but they do not fully support integrating data across methods, scales, and domains. The Biological Collections Ontology (BCO) was designed to bridge the terminology gap between traditional museum-based specimen collections and more contemporary environmental sampling methods, such as metagenomic sequencing, by providing a logically defined set of terms for biodiversity that map to standards such as the Darwin Core and Minimum Information for any Sequence. The BCO is expanding to encompass observational biodiversity data such as field surveys and taxonomic inventories. A key design principle of the BCO is to clearly distinguish the different types of processes involved in biodiversity data collection along with the inputs and outputs of those processes. The BCO has applications to plant biodiversity studies for linking herbarium specimens to sequence data, connecting trait data to specimens, and describing survey data.

}, url = {http://icbo.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/}, author = {Ramona Walls and Rob Guralnick} } @conference {IT203, title = {IT203: Defining and sustaining populations and communities}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cover subjects such as ending poverty, achieving gender equality, ensuring access to water, energy, and food, and protecting ecosystems. Every SDG includes wording that refers directly or indirectly to a population or community or organisms, humans or otherwise. Therefore, the Population and Community Ontology (PCO) plays a crucial role in defining the language of the SDGs and their targets and indicators. This talk will describe the PCO and its applicability to sustainability studies.

}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/IT203_ICBO2016.pdf}, author = {Ramona Walls} } @conference {IT201, title = {IT201: Environmental semantics for sustainable development in an interconnected biosphere}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {

Development unavoidably impacts the ecosystems constituting often producing complex outcomes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The interconnectivity of global ecosystems and their varied responses to disturbance necessitate great caution when using or encountering terms such as sustainable and sustainability. The Environment Ontology (ENVO; www.environmentontology.org) is coordinating with the Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO) to improve semantic representation of environments in the context of global development. In this talk, we will present progress towards this goal, emphasising the potential of ecosystem semantics in bridging and seeding new domain ontologies.

}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/IT201_ICBO2016.pdf}, author = {Pier Luigi Buttigieg and Mark Jensen and Ramona Walls and Christopher Mungall} }