A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: the role of formal ontology in the information technology
Mutant: agents as guides for multiple taxonomies in the floristic digital library
Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries
A digital museum of Taiwanese butterflies
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Learning to map between ontologies on the semantic web
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
TAMBIS: Transparent Access to Multiple Bioinformatics Information Sources
ISMB '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
PROMPT: Algorithm and Tool for Automated Ontology Merging and Alignment
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
The Chimaera Ontology Environment
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
The evolution of Protégé: an environment for knowledge-based systems development
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Domain Ontology Management Environment
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
OntoKhoj: a semantic web portal for ontology searching, ranking and classification
WIDM '03 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Web information and data management
Ontology mapping: the state of the art
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Jena: implementing the semantic web recommendations
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Swoogle: a search and metadata engine for the semantic web
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Identification of common methods used for ontology integration tasks
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Interoperability of heterogeneous information systems
A New Methodology for Merging the Heterogeneous Domain Ontologies Based on the WordNet
NWESP '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices
OntologyWinnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology
CIMCA '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce Vol-2 (CIMCA-IAWTIC'06) - Volume 02
Integrating ecoinformatics resources on the semantic web
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
An approach to detection ontology changes
ICWE '06 Workshop proceedings of the sixth international conference on Web engineering
A framework to process complex biodiversity queries
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
OntoPathView: A Simple View Definition Language for the Collaborative Development of Ontologies
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications
Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications
Detecting similarities in ontologies with the SOQA-SimPack toolkit
EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in Database Technology
Ranking ontologies with AKTiveRank
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
A framework for semantic annotation of geospatial data for agriculture
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
Annotating geospatial data based on its semantics
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
A web-based repository service for vocabularies and alignments in the cultural heritage domain
ESWC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications - Volume Part I
Sinimbu --- multimodal queries to support biodiversity studies
ICCSA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part I
Management and storage of in situ oceanographic data: An ECM-based approach
Information Systems
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Biodiversity research requires associating data about living beings and their habitats, constructing sophisticated models and correlating all kinds of information. Data handled are inherently heterogeneous, being provided by distinct (and distributed) research groups, which collect these data using different vocabularies, assumptions, methodologies and goals, and under varying spatio-temporal frames. Ontologies are being adopted as one of the means to alleviate these heterogeneity problems, thus helping cooperation among researchers. While ontology toolkits offer a wide range of operations, they are self-contained and cannot be accessed by external applications. Thus, the many proposals for adopting ontologies to enhance interoperability in application development are either based on the use of ontology servers or of ontology frameworks. The latter support many functions, but impose application recoding whenever ontologies change, whereas the first supports ontology evolution, but for a limited set of functions. This paper presents Aonde-a Web service geared towards the biodiversity domain that combines the advantages of frameworks and servers, supporting ontology sharing and management on the Web. By clearly separating storage concerns from semantic issues, the service provides independence between ontology evolution and the applications that need them. The service provides a wide range of basic operations to create, store, manage, analyze and integrate multiple ontologies. These operations can be repeatedly invoked by client applications to construct more complex manipulations. Aonde has been validated for real biodiversity case studies.