A semantically integrated, user-friendly data model for species observation data

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Veen, L E ^a   Van Reenen, G B A ^a   Sluiter, F P ^b   Van Loon, E E ^a   Bouten, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SARA Computing and Networking Services   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data integration; Data model; Semantic integration; Species observations

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERNET; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TAXONOMY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84857915088     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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