PROJECT OVERVIEW

Cross-Nature Ontology is based on the Linked Open Data (LOD) technology and follows the structure of Plinian Core standard.

Plinian Core is a set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe different aspects of biological species information. Traditional models for the biological description of species do not include aspects such as information of descriptions, legal aspects, conservation, management, demography, nomenclature or related resources with the described species.

In 2015 the IEPNB (Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity) approved the adoption of the Plinian Core standard as a structure for the storage, distribution and management of all species information.

Plinian Core is already accessible, autonomous, extensible and integrable, but can be much more enriched thanks to semantic web technologies. The application of these technologies to the existing model will enhance their possibilities and will put in value the great effort made to create this standard.

To carry out the evolution of the Plinian Core standard to a semantic model has been necessary to create an ontology: in standard formats defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Based on the axioms of the ontology model it will be possible to validate and augment information through automatic inference systems.

A complete interoperability between applications thanks to the Application Programming Interfaces (API) that are currently capable of processing and extracting conclusions about information published in semantic technologies.

This will lay the foundation of a service system that will be able to obtain and process information in a completely autonomous way. This possibility is especially useful in the interpretation of natural phenomena, cycles and their impact on species as they will lay the foundations of a system capable of publishing accurate and interpretable information by applications that can analyze and draw conclusions autonomously.

Linked Data allows building the Web of data, a large database interconnected and distributed on the Web. This is expressed in RDF format with expressions of the subject-predicate-object type, called triplets. Concepts or things described are identified by unique URIs to avoid ambiguities.

With this format it is possible to publish the data about the species with reference to the previously defined ontology. Current data has been transformed to RDF and stored in a platform that stores the triplets. This RDF server will have a point (Endpoint) accessible from the web for any person or machine in which the information will be consulted.

These queries will be performed using the SPARQL (Protocol and RDF Query Language).

It also follows INSPIRE specifications for geospatial information and express the ontology.

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Partners:

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Cross-Nature Architecture

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Workpackages of Cross-Nature project

WP2

REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION

This WP will research the interoperable architecture of Linked Open Data services among the different countries and the different sectos involved under a crossprocessing approach.

WP3

DATA MODELING AND DATA PROCESSING

This WP will research the access, adaptation and harmonization of envitonmental and natural data to comply with the aim of biodiversity preservation and AIS (alien invasive species) monitoring and control, using Linked Open Data principles.

WP4

DATA PUBLICATION FACILITIES: ENDPOINTS AND DATA POPULATION

This WP will design and develop the semantic publication involving the cross data modeling proposed.

WP5

EVALUATION OF RESULTS. DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION

This work package will evaluate the CROSS-NATURE results and receive assessment from users and citizens feedback. In addition, it will maximize project impact and exploitation

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MILESTONE NAME	ACTIVITIES INVOLVED	INDICATIVE COMPLETION DATE	DELIVERABLE No,	DELIVERABLE NAME
Management Foundations	1	01/06/2017	D1.1	Quality Plan

MILESTONE NAME	ACTIVITIES INVOLVED	INDICATIVE COMPLETION DATE	DELIVERABLE No,	DELIVERABLE NAME
Technical Foundations	2	31/12/2017	D2.1	Scenarios definition and Technical Foundations
	3		D2.2	Requirements definition
	4

MILESTONE NAME	ACTIVITIES INVOLVED	INDICATIVE COMPLETION DATE	DELIVERABLE No,	DELIVERABLE NAME
Data exportation and publication	3	31/12/2018	D4.1	Publication facilities – First version
	4		D3.1	Data models, vocabularies and Ontologies
	5		D4.2	Publication facilities – Final version

MILESTONE NAME	ACTIVITIES INVOLVED	INDICATIVE COMPLETION DATE	DELIVERABLE No,	DELIVERABLE NAME
Data publication	3	30/04/2019	D3.2	Data exportation and publication
	4		D4.3	Data population and final systems
	5

MILESTONE NAME	ACTIVITIES INVOLVED	INDICATIVE COMPLETION DATE	DELIVERABLE No,	DELIVERABLE NAME
Compliance with the Metadata Quality Assurance (MQA) tool for datasets	1	30/04/2019	D5.1	Dissemination Plan and Dissemination Tools
			D1.2	Interim Report
			D5.4	Dissemination report – I
			D5.2	Dissemination report – I Initial results and project Evaluation
	5		D1.3	Final Report
			D3.2	Data Exportation and Publication
			D4.3	Data population and final systems