- From: Miles, AJ \(Alistair\) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:40:28 +0100
- To: <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
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 --- 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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