FW: [ALL][PORT] Ecoterm Group

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Alistair Miles
Research Associate
CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Building R1 Room 1.60
Fermi Avenue
Chilton
Didcot
Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
Email:        a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440



-----Original Message-----
From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) 
Sent: 16 May 2005 16:40
To: 'public-swbp-wg@w3.org'
Subject: [ALL][PORT] Ecoterm Group


Hi all,

Last month I attended the second meeting of the Ecoterm group (see [1] for
presentations).  The Ecoterm mission is: linking terminologies to facilitate
environmental information sharing.  The group includes representatives of: UNEP,
USEPA, USGS, UN FAO, EEA ... organisations that have a major stake in managing
environmental information.

The Ecoterm group is keen to exploit the potential added value of RDF-based
solutions, and has produced much of the initial deployment feedback for the SKOS
Core work (GEMET and FAO's Agrovoc both have SKOS/RDF publications). I was
invited to the first Ecoterm meeting last year, and presented SKOS Core as an
outcome of SWAD-Europe.  This year I was asked to give an overview of relevant
standardisation initiatives, and also an update on progress with SKOS Core and
other SWBP work (see [2]).  

The Ecoterm group has clear distributed information management use cases, and is
keen to have the support of the SWBPD-WG in developing best practices and
enabling technology within their community.  Key contacts are Gail Hodge (USGS)
and Gerard Cunningham (UNEP). There is also a public mailing list
<ecoterm@npogroups.org>.

The Ecoterm group is part of the wider ECOinformatics Initiative
<http://ecoinfo.eionet.eu.int/>.  Quoted from the website: The cooperation on
ECOinformatics has been established to exchange information and carry out common
projects in the area of environmental information.

Yours,

Alistair.        

[1] http://eea.eionet.eu.int/Public/irc/envirowindows/jad/library?l=/ecoinformatics_indicator/ecoterm_1542005&vm=detailed&sb=Title
[2] http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/skos/pres/ecoterm2005.ppt

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Alistair Miles
Research Associate
CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Building R1 Room 1.60
Fermi Avenue
Chilton
Didcot
Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
Email:        a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440

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