A prototype system for multilingual data discovery of International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) Network data |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Biology, MSC03 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA;2. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA;3. Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, 53 Nan Hai Rd., Taipei, Taiwan;4. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK;5. Jerusalem 93554, Israel;6. Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;7. U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA;8. Department of Internet and Multimedia Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea;9. Kookmin University, Department of Forestry, Environment, and Systems, Seoul 02707, Republic of Korea;10. Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA;11. National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan;12. GBIF Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark;13. School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Rd., Shanghai 200241, China;1. Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1201 N.W. 16th Street, Miami, FL 33125, USA;2. Department of Urology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199, USA;3. Divisions of Hematology/Oncology and Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, 1800 N.W. 10th Ave, Miami, FL 33126, USA;4. Department of Pathology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, 1800 N.W. 10th Ave, Miami, FL 33125, USA;5. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, 1800 N.W. 10th Ave, Miami, FL 33125, USA |
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| Abstract: | Shared ecological data have the potential to revolutionize ecological research just as shared genetic sequence data have done for biological research. However, for ecological data to be useful, it must first be discoverable. A broad-scale research topic may require that a researcher be able to locate suitable data from a variety of global, regional and national data providers, which often use different local languages to describe their data. Thus, one of the challenges of international sharing of long-term data is facilitation of multilingual searches. Such searches are hindered by lack of equivalent terms across languages and by uneven application of keywords in ecological metadata. To test whether a thesaurus-based approach to multilingual data searching might be effective, we implemented a prototype web-services-based system for searching International Long-Term Ecological Research Network data repositories. The system builds on the use of a multilingual thesaurus to make searches more complete than would be obtained through search term-translation alone. The resulting system, when coupled to commodity online translation systems, demonstrates the possibility of achieving multilingual searches for ecological data. |
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