Semantic cluster

The main purpose of the Cluster work plan (template here) is to provide the iMarine Board with a management tool usable as a framework for planning activities, and that can serve as a guide for carrying out that work. The scope is thus the interface between the Board and the project's Work Packages activities. After drafting, a work plan needs approval from the iMarine Board, following the Board procedures.

Goals and Objectives (The Outputs)

Outputs of the cluster are Roadmaps, Tradeoff analysis and Guidelines for the development, deployment and maintenance of infrastructure services involving semantic resources and technology, such as:

• publication of species manager results (code mapping / reconcialiation) VREVirtual Research Environment. with RDF (based on Top Level Ontology Schema)
• publication of iMarine geonetwork metadata (about data sources and related services: WMSSee Workload Management System or Web Mapping Service. / WFSWeb Feature Service/ WCSWeb Coverage Service/ WPS...) through RDF (based on GENESI-DEC Schema)
• RDF generation from various types of information resources (Web Pages, OGC metadata / CSW URL, .pdf /. doc files, bibliographic references..)

Such Infrastructure Services are needed by the iMarine eScience services (VREs & Apps) and other web service endpoints.

A validation process aims at matching the cluster outputs with 'consuming' eScience services like these ones:

• a VREVirtual Research Environment. to provide GUIs to facilitate RDF generation through iMarine Tagger
• a VREVirtual Research Environment. to provide a search engine for iMarine enabling seamless access to different metadata catalogues (iMarine native metadata element set, OGC, publications, pictures...)
• Smartfish Web portal
• Fact sheet generator (e.g. Tuna Atlas Use Case)

Resources and Constraints (The Inputs)

The Business Cases requirements are inputs for the cluster, they come from 3 Business Cases that are grouped as follows:

   * Smartfish
   * Tuna Atlas

Other inputs:

• RDF sources for domain entities: FAO FLOD (species, vessels, areas and related properties), IRD Ecoscope (species, vessels, ecosystems and related properties), WORMS (taxon ranks and related properties), Species manager VREVirtual Research Environment. (species and codes).
• RDF sources for information resources metadata: FAO FLOD (publications, ??), IRD Ecoscope (pictures, databases, publications, people...), iMarine geonetwork

Strategy and Actions (from Inputs to Outputs)

Another Wiki page is dedicated to Semantic cluster achievements [1] related to iMarine Board Work Plan [2].

Cluster Participants and Roles

• IRD:
  • provides an ontology about domain entities and related information resources metadata.provides
  • provides expertise about the domain (Ecosystem Approach to Marine Resources) with underlying research laboratory
• FAO
• FORTH

Appendix E - Other

iMarine Technical Guidelines

• Publishing guidelines for Data and Services Providers [3]