Improving data discovery in metadata repositories through semantic search

Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, CISIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1152-1159

  Berkley, Chad ^a   Bowers, Shawn ^b   Jones, Matthew B ^a   Madin, Joshua S ^c   Schildhauer, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPLEXITY; CURRENT DATA; DATA DISCOVERY; DATA REPOSITORIES; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL DATA; KEYWORD SEARCH; KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; METADATA REPOSITORIES; METADATA SYSTEMS; ONLINE DATA; RAPID RATE; RESEARCH NEEDS; SEARCH CAPABILITIES; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SEMANTIC SEARCH; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; METADATA; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 70349750066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CISIS.2009.122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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