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With a rapidly growing body of knowledge, it becomes more and more difficult to keep track of the state of the art in a research field. A formal representation of the hypotheses in the field, their relations, the studies that support or question them based on which evidence, would greatly ease this task and help direct future research efforts. We present the design of such a core ontology for one specific field, namely invasion biology. We introduce the design of the Hierarchy of Hypotheses (HoH) core ontology to semantically capture and model the information contained in hierarchies of hypotheses created for invasion biology. The proposed core ontology is based on a number of well structured related ontologies, which provide a solid basis for its main entities.
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This work has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of CRC 1076 AquaDiva. Additional support has been received from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF within the Collaborative Project “Bridging in Biodiversity Science - BIBS” (funding number 01LC1501).
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Algergawy, A., Stangneth, R., Heger, T., Jeschke, J.M., König-Ries, B. (2020). Towards a Core Ontology for Hierarchies of Hypotheses in Invasion Biology. In: Harth, A., et al. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events. ESWC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_1
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