Who am I? Cyndy Parr

Ontology Developer

Skeptic (middleman & user?)

Behavior

Semantic Prototypes in Research Ecoinformatics

Why ontologies?

SPIRE

LepTree

EOL

“What are the body weights of mammalian predators of invasive fish?”

Thought they might be useful

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder/

Tools

SPIRE

LepTree

EOL

Protégé & Swoop, hand-coding, Triple Shop, RDF 1-2-3

Customized Drupal modules, Excel, Sesame triple store

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Roadblocks

SPIRE

LepTree

EOL

Availability of other data

Tool development, sociology

Priorities

Vision

SPIRE

LepTree

EOL

Cross-walk glossaries, explore EvoDevo patterns

Help others find & integrate data, quality checks?

Collaborators

SPIRE

LepTree

UMBC: Tim Finin, Joel Sachs, Li Ding, UMCP: David Wang, RMBL: Neo Martinez, Rich Williams, Jennifer Dunne, UC Davis: Jim Quinn, Allan Hollander, Animal Diversity Web: Phil Myers, Roger Espinosa

UMD: Charlie Mitter, Jerry Regier, Mike Cummings, John Park SI: Don Davis, John Brown, U Minn: Susan Weller

The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe Field Museum of Natural HistoryThe Missouri Botanical GardenThe Marine Biological Laboratory Harvard UniversityThe Smithsonian Institution

EOL Cornerstone Institutions

http://NodeXL.codeplex.com

NCBI