@conference {388, title = {A Minimal Ontology Pattern for Life Cycle Assessment Data}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2015) co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference {(ISWC} 2015), Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 11, 2015}, year = {2015}, month = {10/2015}, author = {Krzysztof Janowicz and Adila Krisnadhi and Yingjie Hu and Sangwon Suh and Bo Pedersen Weidema and Beatriz Rivela and Johan Tivander and David E. Meyer and Gary Berg-Cross and Pascal Hitzler and Wesley Ingwersen and Brandon Kuczenski and Charles Vardeman and Yiting Ju} } @conference {484, title = {Ontology Design Patterns for Semantically Enriched LCA}, booktitle = {LCA XV, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 6-8, 2015}, year = {2015}, author = {Brandon Kuczenski and Wesley Ingwersen and Krzysztof Janowicz and Pascal Hitzler and Gary Berg-Cross and Charles Vardeman and Sangwon Suh} } @conference {146, title = {An Ontology Design Pattern for Material Transformation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) co-located with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014.}, volume = {1302}, year = {2014}, month = {10/2014}, pages = {73-77}, publisher = {CEUR-WS.org}, organization = {CEUR-WS.org}, abstract = {In this work we discuss an ontology design pattern for material transformations. It models the relation between products, resources, and catalysts in the transformation process. Our axiomatization goes beyond a mere surface semantics. While we focus on the construction domain, the pattern can also be applied to chemistry and other domains.}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1302}, author = {Charles Vardeman and Adila Krisnadhi and Michelle Cheatham and Krzysztof Janowicz and Holly Ferguson and Pascal Hitzler and Aimee Buccellato and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan and Gary Berg-Cross and Torsten Hahmann}, editor = {de Boer, Victor and Aldo Gangemi and Krzysztof Janowicz and Agnieszka Lawrynowicz} } @article {58, title = {Semantic Web and Big Data meets Applied Ontology - The Ontology Summit 2014}, journal = {Applied Ontology}, volume = {9}, year = {2014}, pages = {155{\textendash}170}, doi = {10.3233/AO-140135}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/AO-140135}, author = {Leo Obrst and Michael Gr{\"u}ninger and Ken Baclawski and Mike Bennett and Dan Brickley and Gary Berg-Cross and Pascal Hitzler and Krzysztof Janowicz and Christine Kapp and Oliver Kutz and Christoph Lange and Anatoly Levenchuk and Francesca Quattri and Alan Rector and Todd Schneider and Simon Spero and Anne Thessen and Marcela Vegetti and Amanda Vizedom and Andrea Westerinen and Matthew West and Peter Yim} } @conference {130, title = {A Geo-ontology Design Pattern for Semantic Trajectories}, booktitle = {Spatial Information Theory - 11th International Conference, COSIT 2013, Scarborough, UK, September 2-6, 2013. Proceedings}, year = {2013}, pages = {438{\textendash}456}, abstract = {

Trajectory data have been used in a variety of studies, including human behavior analysis, transportation management, and wildlife tracking. While each study area introduces a different perspective, they share the need to integrate positioning data with domain-specific information. Semantic annotations are necessary to improve discovery, reuse, and integration of trajectory data from different sources. Consequently, it would be beneficial if the common structure encountered in trajectory data could be annotated based on a shared vocabulary, abstracting from domain-specific aspects. Ontology design patterns are an increasingly popular approach to define such flexible and self-contained building blocks of annotations. They appear more suitable for the annotation of interdisciplinary, multi-thematic, and multi-perspective data than the use of foundational and domain ontologies alone. In this paper, we introduce such an ontology design pattern for semantic trajectories. It was developed as a community effort across multiple disciplines and in a data-driven fashion. We discuss the formalization of the pattern using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and apply the pattern to two different scenarios, personal travel and wildlife monitoring.

}, keywords = {Ontology Design Pattern, OWL, Trajectory}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-01790-7_24}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01790-7_24}, author = {Yingjie Hu and Krzysztof Janowicz and David Carral and Simon Scheider and Werner Kuhn and Gary Berg-Cross and Pascal Hitzler and Mike Dean and Dave Kolas} } @article {307, title = {Semantic Aspects of EarthCube}, year = {2012}, abstract = {

In this document, we give a high-level overview of selected Semantic (Web) technologies, methods, and other important considerations, that are relevant for the success of EarthCube. The goal of this initial document is to provide entry points and references for discussions between the Semantic Technologies experts and the domain experts within EarthCube. The selected topics are intended to ground the EarthCube roadmap in the state of the art in semantics research and ontology engineering.

We anticipate that this document will evolve as EarthCube progresses. Indeed, all EarthCube parties are asked to provide topics of importance that should be treated in future versions of this document.

}, author = {Pascal Hitzler and Krzysztof Janowicz and Gary Berg-Cross and Leo Obrst and Amit Sheth and Timothy Finin and Isabel Cruz} } @conference {403, title = {Semantics and Ontologies for EarthCube}, booktitle = {Workshop on GIScience in the Big Data Age, In conjunction with the seventh International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2012 (GIScience 2012)}, year = {2012}, address = {Columbus, Ohio, USA}, abstract = {

Semantic technologies and ontologies play an increasing role in scientific workflow systems and knowledge infrastructures. While ontologies are mostly used for the semantic annotation of metadata, semantic technologies enable searching metadata catalogs beyond simple keywords, with some early evidence of semantics used for data translation. However, the next generation of distributed and interdisciplinary knowledge infrastructures will require capabilities beyond simple subsumption reasoning over subclass relations. In this work, we report from the EarthCube Semantics Community by highlighting which role semantics and ontologies should play in the EarthCube knowledge infrastructure. We target the interested domain scientist and, thus, introduce the value proposition of semantic technologies in a non-technical language. Finally, we commit ourselves to some guiding principles for the successful implementation and application of semantic technologies and ontologies within EarthCube.

}, author = {Gary Berg-Cross and Isabel Cruz and Mike Dean and Tim Finin and Mark Gahegan and Pascal Hitzler and Hook Hua and Krzysztof Janowicz and Naicong Li and Philip Murphy and Bryce Nordgren and Leo Obrst and Mark Schildhauer and Amit Sheth and Krishna Sinha and Anne Thessen and Nancy Wiegand and Ilya Zaslavsky}, editor = {Krzysztof Janowicz and C. Kessler and T. Kauppinen and Dave Kolas and Simon Scheider} }