Towards an operational semantics of biological diversity: integrating structure and function in a web-accessible knowledge base
Ferdinando Villa, Marta Ceroni · International Conference on Digital Government Research · 2002
Understanding the dynamics of biological diversity requires new approaches and integration between different disciplines. The development of a unitary body of knowledge about biodiversity is made difficult by the fragmentation and lack of interoperability between the diverse - and often informal and simplistic - semantics adopted for data and models. Different representational paradigms require conceptual, as well as technical, integration to enable reorganizing the body of knowledge and enable new ideas, theories, and higher-level paradigms to surface and be tested.