Ecolingua: a Formal ontology for data in ecology

Virgínia Brilhante
2005 Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society  
Ecolingua is an ontology for ecological quantitative data, which has been designed through reuse of a conceptualisation of quantities and their physical dimensions provided by the EngMath family of ontologies. A hierarchy of ecological quantity classes is presented together with their definition axioms in first-order logic. An implementation-level application of the ontology is discussed, by way of which conceptual ecological models are synthesised from data annotations in Ecolingua through
more » ... e of existing model structures. Reals and real-valued expressions are part of lower level Ecolingua specification in the composition of dimensions and units of measure.
doi:10.1007/bf03192376 fatcat:6dsa5puiwjcmfbsji34zxsjs4y