Archaeological data and research results are essential to addressing such fundamental
questions as the origins of human culture; the origin, waxing, and waning of civilizations and …

The proliferation of ontologies and taxonomies in many domains increasingly demands the
integration of multiple such ontologies. We propose a new taxonomy merging algorithm …

Benchmarking approaches for ontology merging is challenging and has received little
attention so far. A key problem is that there is in general no single best solution for a merge …

The prospects of integrating full-blown biological taxonomies into an ontological reasoning
framework are critically reviewed. The common usage of a static'snapshot'hierarchy in …

We present a novel, logic-based solution to the challenge of reconciling the meanings of
taxonomic names across multiple biological taxonomies. The challenge arises due to …

Classifications and phylogenetic inferences of organismal groups change in light of new
insights. Over time these changes can result in an imperfect tracking of taxonomic …

This paper introduces a novel method for merging open-domain terminological knowledge.
It takes advantage of the Region Connection Calculus (RCC5), a formalism used to …

Taxonomy alignment is a way to integrate two or more taxonomies. Semantic interoperability
among datasets, information systems and knowledge bases is facilitated by combining the …

Overview. Taxonomic names are imperfect identifiers of specific and sometimes conflicting
taxonomic perspectives in aggregated biodiversity data environments. The inherent …

In natural history museums, knowledge organization systems have gradually been migrated
from paper-based catalog ledgers to electronic databases; these databases in turn must be …