Desenvolvimento de uma ontologia de domínio para modelagem de biodiversidade

Abstract

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recognizes that biodiversity loss must be reduced to promote poverty alleviation and direct benefit of all live on Earth. To achieve that, we must consider robust strategies and action plans based on knowledge and state of art technology. In this context, we have two current scenarios, the Web as a dissemination environment and the Semantic Web to deal with the complexity of domains of high semantic expressiveness as biodiversity. The research is underway in universities and scientific organization aiming to develop Semantic Web as an additional resource associated to formal ontology and the avoidance of knowledge acquisition problems such as expertise dependence, tacit knowledge, experts availability and ideal time importance. Ontology can structure knowledge acquisition process for the purpose of comprehensive, portable machine understanding and knowledge extraction on the semantic web environment. These technologies applied to biodiversity domain can be a valuable resource for our region future strategy planning and its contribution for the planet.