RITMARE: Semantics-aware Harmonisation of Data in Italian Marine Research

Abstract

Delivered at the CRIS2014 Conference in Rome; published in Procedia Computer Science 33 (Jul 2014).-- 5 pages.Presentation (8 slides) available at http://prezi.com/6gmerli4l8ey/eurocris-2014-20140513-15/RITMARE is a Flagship Project by the Italian Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) and coordinated by the National Research Council (CNR). It aims at the interdisciplinary integration of national marine research. In pursuing a Linked Open Data (LOD) vocation, the RITMARE sub-project 7 is building the necessary domain-related data structures by leveraging existing RDF-based schemata and sources. These data structures are grounding semantics-aware profiling of end users, data providers, and resources. The goal is designing a flexible infrastructure that adapts to the audience's specificities

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“…Third step -Integration of all the data in the well-established technological infrastructure created in the wider RITMARE project (Fugazza et al 2014). This infrastructure is modelled on standard web services, the cardinal elements of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), and has been implemented for the exchange and use of marine geospatial data in an interoperable way.…”

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“…This thematic folder structure was defined based on the domain knowledge of the data providers so that each folder can be populated with GD having a common category and format, so that the naming convention of the folders and dataset files allows univocally identifying semantic information of the data contained. Furthermore, each folder contains a comprehensive metadata record, manually created, once and for all, for each data category according to the INSPIRE metadata regulation and its Italian extension, by using the Edi Editor [39]. The comprehensive metadata are semantically enriched by exploiting contextual knowledge of the provider and organization of the GD.…”

“…The Metadata editor Edi, developed in Ritmare project [39], was used to provide an easy and web accessible interface to create the comprehensive metadata record for each data theme. Information as abstract, keywords from relevant controlled vocabularies (INSPIRE theme, GCMD, Earth Science Keywords, etc.…”

“…The research work of [34] proposes automatic generation of semantics-enabled GD metadata generated, validated, and propagated during the materialization of a virtual data product. In [39], an open source package named get-it has been developed to allow practitioners of public authorities and research institutions to easily deploy their GD and to support them in the manual creation of correspondent metadata semantically enriched by exploiting contextual information on the theme, source, author, and organization. Recently, [52] developed (Semi-) Automatic Metadata Extraction Tool extracting information from non-spatial (pdf, doc, and txt) and spatial resources (Shapefiles, Feature Classes (File Geodatabase and Personal Geodatabase), SDE Feature Classes, GRID and TIFF) to promote geoportal applications as geographic knowledge portals.…”

“…Recently, [52] developed (Semi-) Automatic Metadata Extraction Tool extracting information from non-spatial (pdf, doc, and txt) and spatial resources (Shapefiles, Feature Classes (File Geodatabase and Personal Geodatabase), SDE Feature Classes, GRID and TIFF) to promote geoportal applications as geographic knowledge portals. Our proposed semi-automatic metadata creation and deploy workflow has been designed and developed by combining these last two approaches, i.e., by using the tool get-it [39] to create a metadata template for each type of product in a folder, and then by adding some metadata fields by extracting information from the products content such as date of creation and bounding box.…”