Meta-information systems and ontologies - A special feature from ISEI'06
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS, 2 (3, Sp. Iss. SI):
193--194 (October 2007)DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.09.003
Abstract
The field of ecological informatics addresses challenges in the representation, management, analysis, and modeling of ecological data and information (Michener, 2006; Jones et al., 2006). Research advances in informatics continue to be critical to the improvement of cyberinfrastructure capabilities and techniques available to ecological researchers. Over the last several years, researchers in informatics have been creating and adopting novel approaches to the management of ecological data, including techniques from the rapidly advancing fields of knowledge representation and scientific workflow systems. Traditional approaches to managing ecological data have often produced project-specific software solutions that are useful in the limited context of a particular research project. Advances in broadly applicable cyberinfrastructure promise to tremendously improve the capabilities of ecological and environmental scientists. In this special feature, we highlight eight novel papers that have shown how informatics and computer science have contributed to advancing ecological science and highlight the emerging frontiers at the intersection of meta-information systems and ontologies. These papers were selected from submissions that were presented at the 2006 meeting of the International Society for Ecological Informatics which was held in Santa Barbara, CA. The papers are divided into three themes: metadata, ontologies, and data management; representing and visualizing taxonomies; and scientific workflows, provenance, and data analysis.
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