Community adoption of some representation of geoscience concepts and relationships is an important step towards streamlining data integration and interoperability of geoscience data across domains. This session is intended to understand the requirements and applications that motivate several geoscience-related ontologies, and to promote conversation on the differences and similarities between them. The session will include overview presentations of some current geoscience and related ontologies:
1) OntoGeonous ontology, (
Lombardo et al. 2018); an implementation of the GeoSciML conceptual model, with application to geologic maps.
2) GeoCore ontology, (Garcia, et al., 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2019.104387 ). Geoscience ontology, applications area in petroleum exploration.
3) GeoScience Ontology;
https://github.com/Loop3D/GKM , Developed for
Loop3D project to provide background knowledge support for implicit generation of 3D geologic models. (Brodaric, Richard, GSC OFR https://doi.org/10.4095/328296 )
4)
SWEET and
ENVO; these are two widely used ontologies with broad scope; SWEET is managed by and ESIP Cluster, and efforts have been under way to update this ontology and align with ENVO.
The major discussion point is whether the use cases that have motivated these ontologies require different solutions, or if some convergence is possible into a more integrated and harmonized set of shared knowledge representations can be developed to promote interoperability.
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