Ontologies
SEAMLESS ontology files released!
Written by Sander Janssen Wednesday, 17 March 2010 10:11
The 11 SEAMLESS ontology files are available online, so they can be linked to online in new ontologies. These ontology files can be found on http://www.seamless-if.org/ontologies/. The SEAMLESS ontologies capture the following content:
- Crop.owl contains concepts related to crops, crop products and grouping of crops, which is used in many models concerning the agricultural domain.
- Farm.owl contains concepts on farms and the regions, soils and climate in which these farms are found.
- Prodent.owl contains concepts related to rotations and choices in production made by farmers (production enterprise).
- Activity.owl gives an overview of the different types of activities (e.g. arable, livestock, and perennial) farmers can choose on their farms.
+ Livestock.owl specifies the livestock activities as described in the activity.owl in more detail.
+ Agrirule.owl specifies the arable activities as described in the activity.owl in more detail.
- Capri.owl provides concepts of relevance to the CAPRI model (Heckelei and Britz, 2001).
- Farmopt.owl provides concepts related to farm economics and optimization of farm income.
- Indi.owl contains concepts relevant to indicators and the use of indicators in integrated assessment (Turpin et al., these Proceedings).
- Seamproj.owl contains concepts to describe scenarios and integrated assessment problems.
- Pica.owl describes concepts for the analysis of institutional compatibility assessments.
What are SEAMLESS ontologies?
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An ontology in computer science is considered as a specification of a conceptualization (Gruber, 1993), where a conceptualization is ‘an abstract, simplified view of the world e.g. systems under study that we wish to represent for some purpose’ (Gruber, 1993). Such a formalization could be expressed in a machine readable format, i.e. as the Web Ontology Language (McGuinness and van Harmelen, 2004). An ontology consists of a finite list of concepts and the relationships between these concepts (Antoniou and van Harmelen, 2004).