Aondê: An ontology Web service for interoperability across biodiversity applications

Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 724-753

  Daltio, Jaudete ^a   Medeiros, Claudia Bauzer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity information systems; Ontology management; Semantic integration; Web services

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; INTEROPERABILITY; WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; APPLICATIONS.; BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CASE STUDIES; CLIENT APPLICATIONS; EXTERNAL-; ONTOLOGY MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY SHARING; ONTOLOGY WEB SERVICE; RE SEARCH GROUP; RECODING; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 49849095141     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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