Resource descriptions, ontology, and resource discovery. (7th July 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lacroix, Zoe; Aziz, Maliha
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 5:Number 3(2010)
• Page Start: 194
• Page End: 207
• Publication Date: 2010-07-07
• Subjects: scientific workflow -- BioMoby -- resource discovery -- web services -- ontology -- resource descriptions -- semantics -- bioinformatics -- resource publication formats -- resource registration -- syntactic discovery -- semantic discovery; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

Resource discovery systems may assist scientists in the selection of bioinformatics resources suitable to implement scientific workflows. In this paper we address several problems related to resource discovery. They include resource publication formats, resource registration, and syntactic vs. semantic discovery. We analyse the BioMoby registry and present an algorithm that curates the BioMoby hierarchy into an ontology for use in semantic-driven resource discovery.