The BiSciCol Triplifier: Bringing biodiversity data to the Semantic Web

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stucky, Brian J ^a   Deck, John ^b   Conlin, Tom ^c   Ziemba, Lukasz ^d   Cellinese, Nico ^d   Guralnick, Robert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocollections; Biodiversity informatics; Darwin core; Linked data; Ontology; RDF; Semantic web; SPARQL

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; LINKED DATA; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK (RDF); SEMANTIC WEB;

BIOCOLLECTION; BIODIVERSITY DATUM; BIODIVERSITY INFORMATIC; DARWIN CORE; INFORMATICS; LINKED DATUM; ONTOLOGY'S; RESOURCES DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORKS; SEMANTIC-WEB; SPARQL; BIOCOLLECTIONS; RDF;

BIODIVERSITY; ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; INTERNET; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84904781637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-257     Document Type: Article

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