Technical Reports

Semantic Information Management in Seismology and Geoscience

IMSC-05-002 PDF Version of Full Report
      Sang Soo Sung, Dennis McLeod

Abstract:
Ontologies can play a key role in managing ever expanding earthquake data. Seismology and geoscience domain ontologies have been designed on top of semantic model theory and are written in ontology languages such as RDF, DAML+OIL, and OWL. It turns out that traditional model theory causes syntactical and semantic conflicts with contemporary ontology languages. This paper addresses a new semantic model for ontology languages and introduces an ontology-based metadata management system. The proposed system supports an effective ontology development and management methodology based on our model theory. The benefits of the model are here presented and analyzed. In addition, the system is evaluated in the seismology and geoscience domains.