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Beyond Silos: Next Steps in Research Data Management Report from the 2024 Spring Symposium of FG Datenbanken
On March 11 and 12, 2024, the Spring Symposium of the GI Fachgruppe Datenbanken took place in Jena. The overarching theme of the meeting was research data management beyond isolated repositories, and it explic...
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BiodivPortal: Enabling Semantic Services for Biodiversity within the German National Research Data Infrastructure
Research has become increasingly reliant on extensive data. The integration, sharing and reuse of research data poses a significant challenge, particularly in the context of interdisciplinary collaborative pro...
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Open AccessManaging Provenance Data in Knowledge Graph Management Platforms
Knowledge Graphs (KGs) present factual information about domains of interest. They are used in a wide variety of applications and in different domains, serving as powerful backbones for organizing and extracti...
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Integrating Domain Knowledge for Enhanced Concept Model Explainability in Plant Disease Classification
Deep learning-based plant disease detection has seen promising advancements, particularly in its remarkable ability to identify diseases through digital images. Nevertheless, these systems’ opacity and lack of...
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Open AccessReference bioimaging to assess the phenotypic trait diversity of bryophytes within the family Scapaniaceae
Macro- and microscopic images of organisms are pivotal in biodiversity research. Despite that bioimages have manifold applications such as assessing the diversity of form and function, FAIR bioimaging data in ...
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Open AccessEnd-to-End provenance representation for the understandability and reproducibility of scientific experiments using a semantic approach
The advancement of science and technologies play an immense role in the way scientific experiments are being conducted. Understanding how experiments are performed and how results are derived has become signif...
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Open AccessGlobal data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties
Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ReproduceMeGit: A Visualization Tool for Analyzing Reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks
Computational notebooks have gained widespread adoption among researchers from academia and industry as they support reproducible science. These notebooks allow users to combine code, text, and visualizations ...
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Towards Scientific Data Synthesis Using Deep Learning and Semantic Web
One of the added values of long running and large scale collaborative projects is the ability to answer complex research questions based on the comprehensive set of data provided by their central repositories....
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Machine Learning Pipelines: Provenance, Reproducibility and FAIR Data Principles
Machine learning (ML) is an increasingly important scientific tool supporting decision making and knowledge generation in numerous fields. With this, it also becomes more and more important that the results of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
BiodivOnto: Towards a Core Ontology for Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth which covers the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural processes that sustain life. Therefore, it is important to understand where biodiversity is, how it is chang...
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Open AccessOntology Modularization with OAPT
Ontologies are the backbone of the Semantic Web. As a result, the number of existing ontologies and the number of topics covered by them has increased considerably. With this, reusing these ontologies becomes ...
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\(\mathcal {C}\) o \(\mathcal {M}\) erger: A Customizable Online Tool for Building a Consistent Quality-Assured Merged Ontology
Merging ontologies enables the reusability and interoperability of existing knowledge. With growing numbers of relevant ontologies in any given domain, there is a strong need for an automatic, scalable multi-o...
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Toward OWL Restriction Reconciliation in Merging Knowledge
Merging ontologies is the standard way to achieve interoperability of heterogeneous systems in the Semantic Web. Because of the possibility of different modeling, OWL restrictions from one ontology may not nec...
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Towards a Core Ontology for Hierarchies of Hypotheses in Invasion Biology
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, ...
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How Good Is This Merged Ontology?
With the growing popularity of semantics-aware integration solutions, various ontology merging approaches have been proposed. Determining the success of these developments heavily depends on suitable evaluatio...
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What to Do When the Users of an Ontology Merging System Want the Impossible? Towards Determining Compatibility of Generic Merge Requirements
Ontology merging systems enable the reusability and interoperability of existing knowledge. Ideally, they allow their users to specify which characteristics the merged ontology should have. In prior work, we h...
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A Subjective Logic Based Approach to Handling Inconsistencies in Ontology Merging
Ontologies reflect their creators’ view of the domain at hand and are thus subjective. For specific applications it may be necessary to combine several of these ontologies into a more comprehensive domain mod...
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Combining P-Plan and the REPRODUCE-ME Ontology to Achieve Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Experiments Using Interactive Notebooks
End-to-end reproducibility of scientific experiments requires scientists to share their experimental data along with the computational environment. Interactive notebooks have recently gained widespread popular...
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REPRODUCE-ME: Ontology-Based Data Access for Reproducibility of Microscopy Experiments
It has always been the aim of every scientist to make their work reproducible so that the scientific community can verify and trust the experiment results. With more complex in vivo and in vitro studies, achievin...