Dan Bunker TraitNet RCN: Foster the curation, discovery, and sharing of ecological trait data
TraitNet Ontology Development NJIT & Columbia –Dan Bunker, Shahid Naeem, Farshid Ahrestani NCEAS: –Mark Schildhauer, Matt Jones, Shawn Bowers CNRS, France: –Eric Garnier, Marie-Angelique Laporte, Isabelle Mougenot Many additional ecologists and information scientists 2
Plant Functional Trait Ontology Why? To facilitate recycling of ecological trait data What? Functional traits == phenotypes! –Often quantitative: Leaf Mass, Maximum photosynthetic rates Tools? Protégé 4, OWL, OBOE plug-in Needs? Examples of implementations to reify/curate/serve/query triples 3
OBOE: Extensible Observation Ontology Madin, Bowers, Schildhauer, and Jones 2008 TREE Leaf Mass