A major goal of the ESIP Semantic Harmonization Cluster is to promote common understanding and encourage discussion with other ESIP clusters that are developing vocabularies, thesauri, metadata schemas, or ontologies to increase the FAIRness of Earth Science data in potentially specialized domains (e.g. Marine, Soil, or Biological data). By adopting shared approaches among these efforts whenever possible — such as re-using terms, implementing common design patterns, and standardized tooling for vocabulary harmonization — semantic harmonization should vastly increase the capability of researchers to more effectively pursue their science. Thus, we are seeking to build new collaborations with domain experts from various disciplines to harmonize and further develop semantic resources relevant to their respective fields.
This session will continue ongoing discussion of the benefits, goals, and progress in semantically harmonizing Earth Science terminologies, data models and ontologies. Using actual examples integrating vocabularies from the Cryospheric domain, and with a focus on the SWEET and Environment (ENVO) Ontologies, we will present lessons learned for “good enough”/“working practices” learned during our efforts to harmonize the glacial and crosphere terminology between SWEET and ENVO. We hope that our efforts to date can inspire new collaborations and set novel harmonization activities in motion.
How to prepare for this session: For more Information see our ESIP page:
https://wiki.esipfed.org/SemanticHarmonization, as well as our running meeting notes:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IFA6AsCdxESh9mZB5W1bZ_vARFkF3OvnL-KgdGNcp60/edit&sa=D&ust=1604399963101000&usg=AOvVaw0-fqz1-MEOZYXx5PsongvZ, and our ESIP summer 2020 session:
https://2020esipsummermeeting.sched.com/event/cIuW/semantic-harmonization-see-it-in-action-bridging-metagenomics-and-earth-science-data.
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