Introduction defining context and scope

The role of the semantic linking model is to provide a framework for translating between the different standards used for data and process specification in the environmental sciences in the context of the ENVRI reference model. This model should provide a formal basis on which to improve the interoperability of RI services and products, by focusing on the vocabularies used by the ENVRI RIs, feeding into the design of the abstract architecture for interoperable RIs in general. The model also serves to provide the machine-readable formalisation of the ENVRI reference model (or at least its concept model).

The actual task of semantic linking within ENVRI+ is to produce the model itself, but also to produce tools for supporting the linking of concept models (e.g. for metadata) to the reference model framework, and also for searching those models once linked (the full scope and boundaries of this action is to be determined). Thus this technology is review is concerned both with technologies for ontology specification and formal verification, and with technologies for developing new (or adapting existing) tools.

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Problems to be overcome

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Details underpinning above analysis

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Summary of analysis highlighting implications and issues

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