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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Alessandro,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>My advice would be to stay away from Protégé for what you want
to do, which is to build a fairly straightforward vocabulary of the terms that
you use to describe the features in your Atlas. Initially, I would start to
assemble the knowledge using more familiar tools – my personal preference
is Excel. What you need to build is spreadsheet containing at least two
columns, one for terms (such as ‘lagoon’) and one for term
definitions (such as ‘a body of water cut off from a larger body by a
reef of sand or coral’). I also tend to include a column of
abbreviations as well, but this isn’t supported by all semantic
frameworks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you like, once you have got that far you could submit the
result to me to check out that the content you have proposed will work as a vocabulary,
for example do all the terms refer to the same kind of entity, and offer
suggestions if I think it will not. This work would come under the remit of
NETMAR and so would be attended to promptly. I could also call on the expertise
available in the NETMAR ontology governance group if required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>When you have gathered your knowledge together, you have two
alternative systems through which to expose it as a part of the ICAN ontology.
You can either hand it over to me to set it up as a vocabulary in the NERC
Vocabulary server, or you can upload the result into the MMI Ontology Registry
and Repository using the toolkit MMI have developed. Carlos Rueda of MMI gave
an excellent Webinar presentation on this yesterday to the ICAN Tech Team and I’m
sure he could make the slides available to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>My plans for NETMAR involve building a seamless bridge between
these two semantic resources, so it doesn’t really matter which Atlas vocabulary
is in which repository. However, as there are already ICAN resources,
including the master umbrella ontology, in MMI and none in the NERC Vocabulary
Server, it would help my NETMAR development work if you were to allow me to
host your vocabulary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Cheers, Roy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Alessandro Mulazzani
[mailto:alessandro.mulazzani@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 April 2010 18:31<br>
<b>To:</b> Lowry, Roy K; bermudez@sura.org; y.lassoued@ucc.ie<br>
<b>Cc:</b> n.dwyer@ucc.ie<br>
<b>Subject:</b> help for ontology for Atlas of the lagoon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear ICANers! Hope you are all
fine!<br>
<br>
I am writing to you three believing you are the right persons to ask some help
about ontologies, but please, feel free to forward this email to any ICANer who
can help with the issues below.<br>
<br>
As agreed during ICAN 4, I am finally going to start to create an ontology for
the Atlas of the lagoon of Venice in order to join the ICAN prototype, and I
have some questions:<br>
<br>
I am going to use Protege OWL. Do you thing is that appropriate?<br>
<br>
Are there any up-to-date ontologies already created for coastal atlases by ICAN
or others that I can use as examples, or that should be used as a reference?<br>
<br>
Are there any ontologies for environmental atlases in general which are
becomenig a sort of standard?<br>
<br>
How the ontology can be linked with the metadata catalogue (geonetwork in our
case?)<br>
<br>
Thank you very much in advance for your help!<br>
<br>
Best wishes!<br>
Alessandro<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.silvenezia.it">www.silvenezia.it</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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