Owlifier: Creating OWL-DL ontologies from simple spreadsheet-based knowledge descriptions

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-25

  Bowers, Shawn ^a,b   Madin, Joshua S ^c   Schildhauer, Mark P ^d  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Data discovery and integration; Ecological metadata; Ontologies; Ontology development

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; META-ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 76049122598     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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