TraitBank: Practical semantics for organism attribute data

Semantic Web

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 577-588

  Parr, Cynthia S ^a,c   Schulz, Katja S ^a   Hammock, Jennifer ^a   Wilson, Nathan ^b,d   Leary, Patrick ^b,e   Rice, Jeremy ^b   Corrigan, Robert J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d MassChallenge Design and Innovation Center   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; data aggregation; ecology; evolution; ontologies; Semantic Web; taxonomy; traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991449469     PISSN: 15700844     EISSN: 22104968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SW-150190     Document Type: Article

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