The first international workshop on 'Semantics for Biodiversity' (S4BioDiv) will be held on May 27, 2013, preceding the 10th ESWC 2013 -‘Semantics and Big Data’, Montpellier, France.

1. Olivier Rovellotti, Natural Solutions, France
Semantic for Biodiversity: a user’s perspective

2. Data
Users
Process
Why use semantics?
Why not to use it?
What can we should do about it,
and how are we trying?
Recap
Questions

3. Data

5. 4 Dimensions
When What
WhereWho

6. Observation
Yesterday, Mathieu saw a flamingo in Camargue
When
Who What
Where
How
Why

7. What: different nature

8. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/desert_island.png
Data in a usable form
Poor me !

9. Users

10. Who:
Millions
Hundreds
Science
Citizen Science

11. Complexity:
Just about
10 ?
8000
Species

12. Complexity
Numbers
Good:

13. Complexity
Numbers
Bad:

14. Complexity
Numbers
Ungly:

15. Process

16. Acquisition
Agir?
Analysis
Process:
Sharing
Search & compilation
Agir?
Banking

17. Why use semantics?

18. • Annotation : Search
• Enrichment : Banking
• Reuse: Share
• Interoperability : Exchange

19. Why aren’t we there yet?

20. Biodiv Data is not simple

21. Most Biodiv tools are not semantic tools

22. Biodiversity data
Most Biodiv Data is not 5 stars

23. What can we should do about it,
and how are we trying?

24. Acquisition
Banking Analysis
Search & compilation

25. ecoQuery: Search
JSON
SQL SPARQL
RDF

26. ecoQuery : SPARQL
PREFIX dwc:<http://rs.tdwg/org/dwc/terms/#>
PREFIX rdf:<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX geo:<http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#>
PREFIX dcterms:<http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
SELECT distinct ?scientificName?lat?long?date
FROM <urn:rdf.Occurences.AvianKnowledgeNetwork
WHERE {
?occurence rdf:type dwc:Occurence ;
dwc:Identification ?id ;
geo:lat ?lat;
geo:long ?long;
dcterms:date?date.
?id dwc:scientificName?scientificName
}
ecoQuery
SparQL

27. Science
Citizen Science
Acquisition

28. ?
Keys

29. Structure

30. Analyse
Maps
Data
Tools

31. Acrocephalus arundinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rousserolle turdoïde (Français)

32. Merci
www.natural-solutions.eu
@orovellotti

33. Context
Protocol Protocol
Fields
Taxon
Fields

34. When the Social Meets the Semantic: Social Semantic Web or Web 2.5
Salvatore F. Pileggi* , Carlos Fernandez-Llatas and Vicente Traver