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Open AccessAn open Web-based system for the analysis and sharing of animal tracking data
Improvements in telemetry technology are allowing us to monitor animal movements with increasing accuracy, precision and frequency. The increased complexity of the data collections, however, demands additional...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understanding Connectivity between Groundwater Chemistry Data and Geological Stratigraphy via 3D Sub-surface Visualization and Analysis
This paper describes the 3D Water Chemistry Atlas - an open source, Web-based system that enables the three-dimensional (3D) sub-surface visualization of ground water monitoring data, overlaid on the local geo...
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Open AccessSemantic interestingness measures for discovering association rules in the skeletal dysplasia domain
Lately, ontologies have become a fundamental building block in the process of formalising and storing complex biomedical information. With the currently existing wealth of formalised knowledge, the ability to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reasoning on Crowd-Sourced Semantic Annotations to Facilitate Cataloguing of 3D Artefacts in the Cultural Heritage Domain
The 3D Semantic Annotation (3DSA) system expedites the classification of 3D digital surrogates from the cultural heritage domain, by leveraging crowd-sourced semantic annotations. More specifically, the 3DSA s...
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Open AccessSupervised segmentation of phenotype descriptions for the human skeletal phenome using hybrid methods
Over the course of the last few years there has been a significant amount of research performed on ontology-based formalization of phenotype descriptions. In order to fully capture the intrinsic value and know...
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Open AccessThe Bone Dysplasia Ontology: integrating genotype and phenotype information in the skeletal dysplasia domain
Skeletal dysplasias are a rare and heterogeneous group of genetic disorders affecting skeletal development. Patients with skeletal dysplasias suffer from many complex medical issues including degenerative join...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Experiences with Modeling Composite Phenotypes in the SKELETOME Project
Semantic annotation of patient data in the skeletal dysplasia domain (e.g., clinical summaries) is a challenging process due to the structural and lexical differences existing between the terms used to describ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic Similarity-Driven Decision Support in the Skeletal Dysplasia Domain
Biomedical ontologies have become a mainstream topic in medical research. They represent important sources of evolved knowledge that may be automatically integrated in decision support methods. Grounding clini...
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Using Semantic Web Technologies to Build a Community-Driven Knowledge Curation Platform for the Skeletal Dysplasia Domain
In this paper we report on our on-going efforts in building SKELETOME – a community-driven knowledge curation platform for the skeletal dysplasia domain. SKELETOME introduces an ontology-driven knowledge engin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Supporting Multiple Perspectives on 3D Museum Artefacts through Interoperable Annotations
Increasing numbers of museums and cultural institutions are using 3D laser scanning techniques to preserve cultural artefacts as 3D digital models, that are then accessible to curators, scholars and the genera...
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Keynote Talk: Tracking the Progress of Multimedia Semantics – from MPEG-7 to Web 3.0
Since 2001 when the original MPEG-7 standard was published, there have been a number of approaches to representing MPEG-7 as an ontology to enhance the semantic interoperability and richness of multimedia meta...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhancing Semantic Web Services with Inheritance
Currently proposed Semantic Web Services technologies allow the creation of ontology-based semantic annotations of Web services so that software agents are able to discover, invoke, compose and monitor these s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Annotating Relationships Between Multiple Mixed-Media Digital Objects by Extending Annotea
Annotea provides an annotation protocol to support collaborative Semantic Web-based annotation of digital resources accessible through the Web. It provides a model whereby a user may attach supplementary infor...
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Implementing a Secure Annotation Service
Annotation systems enable “value-adding” to digital resources by the attachment of additional data in the form of comments, explanations, references, reviews and other types of external, subjective remarks. Th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Provenance Explorer – Customized Provenance Views Using Semantic Inferencing
This paper presents Provenance Explorer, a secure provenance visualization tool, designed to dynamically generate customized views of scientific data provenance that depend on the viewer’s requirements and/or acc...
