Rosetta Stone Service

NVS

AODNNODC

IMDIS2018:142Rosetta Stone Service: A success story of standards, controlled vocabularies and communication

Alexandra Kokkinaki1, Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé1, Dick Schaap2, Enrico Boldrini3, Fabrizio Papeschi3,Stefano Nativi31The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) (UK)

2MARIS (Netherlands), 3National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (Italy)

The marine community across Europe, US andAustralia, appears to be well connected in terms ofcommunication and standards applied. The use ofcontrolled vocabularies for data mark-up, that arebased on W3C’s Simple Knowledge OrganisationSystem (SKOS) and are exposed as Linked data is agreat success achieved by real humancommunication, enabled by collaborative projectslike the Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP).The scene seems very promising to move to the nextlevel of global integration. But is it enough?

NERC Vocabulary Server (NVS)

AODN(IMOS Australian

Ocean Data Network)

US National Centers for

Environmental Information Vocabularies

(NODC )

Rosetta Stone service leveragesthe mappings between NODC, NVS andAODN and translates terms in real timevia SPARQL queries

NODC:datatype:312SDN:P02::ASLV

Sea Level

Sea surface height above

geoid

sameAssameAs

NODC NVS AODN

NODC:platforms:6238SDN::L06:30

ShipsameAs

SeaDataNet CDIUSA NCEI (NODC) IMOS AODN

SDN::L06:30Ship

NODC:platforms:1712SDN::L05:WPS

water pressure sensors

sameAssameAs

NODC:platforms:9627

NODC:platforms:6237

NODC:platforms:9401

NODC:platforms:7648

SDN::L05:WPSwater pressure sensors

NODC:Institution:972

SDN::C75:UAAwatUniversity of Alaska Anchorage Department

of Biological Sciences

sameAssameAs

Discovery Category

SDN::C75:UAAwatUniversity of Alaska Anchorage Department

of Biological Sciences

Rosetta Stone was successfully experimented tosemantically enhance the ODIP broker discoverycapabilities. ODIP users can now search the ODIPprototype 1+ portal using terms from a communityvocabulary of choice: the ODIP broker engine leveragesRosetta Stone translation service capabilities to obtaintranslated (as well as related) query terms ready to besubmitted and obtain results from all the heterogeneousODIP data sources

This work was funded by the European project Ocean Data Interoperability Platform II (ODIP II) under grant agreement no [654310].Special thanks to our project partners providing insight and expertise in this work.

http://odip-prototype.essi-lab.eu/broker/odip/search