Toward an Ontology for Ocean Ecology and Sustainability
徐 建良, 理一郎 溝口 · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2008
The 21 century is said to be the century of ocean, and researches (for example, those on energy, biology, environment, and so on) have been carried out by many countries for a long time. Throughout these researches, there left many valuable documents such as observational data, experimental results, papers, and patents as well. However, documents from different institutes are usually different from each other both in the format and in teleological and taxonomical viewpoints. Ontology can be used as a middleware to facilitate data sharing and cooperation among these institutes. In this paper, we show a prototype ontology of ocean mainly focusing on its ecology and sustainability. We mainly introduce how to model the interactions between plants, animals, microorganisms and non-living physical factors and their roles in the matter cycles in ocean.