AUSTRALIA—GERMANY WORKSHOP ON BIODIVERSITY
The Shine Dome, 13-17 March 2006
Mapping of knowledge in biodiversity and other domains
by Dr Karl-Heinz Lampe, Head of Biodiversity Informatics, Curator Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK)
With the world facing enormous ecological and economic problems, there is an urgent need to understand complex systems and to make knowledge directly available. Knowledge is based mainly on information integration. Information can be modelled class-centric, as entity relationship (ER-modelling), or event-centric in terms of ontologies, such as the object-oriented CICOC-Conceptual Reference Model (ISO 21127). Ontologies will have a strong impact on methodological questions and research behaviour for different domains such as biology, archaeology, art history, etc. They can be regarded as semantic glue within and between scientific and scholarly domains.
