Ontogrator - iEvoBio Data Integration Challenge Entry

[Norman Morrison]

Dear iEvoBio Organisers,

Please find below our entry for the iEvoBio Data Integration Challenge, including URL, Abstract and Screenshots included in the attached powerpoint file.

I confirm that the Ontogrator Platform is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Yours sincerely,

Norman Morrison

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URL: http://www.ontogrator.org/

EvoCommerce: The Ontogrator web application for data shopping using ontologies and facets

In the near future, we hope to see an open and thriving data market in which users can find and select data from a wide range of data providers. In such an open access market, data are products that must be packaged accordingly. Increasingly, eCommerce sellers present heterogeneous product lines to buyers using faceted browsing. Using this approach we have developed the Ontogrator platform, which allows for rapid retrieval of data in a way that would be familiar to any online shopper. Using Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), especially ontologies, Ontogrator uses text mining to mark up data and faceted browsing to help users navigate, query and retrieve data. Ontogrator offers the potential to impact scientific research in two major ways: 1) by significantly improving the retrieval of relevant information; and 2) by significantly reducing the time required to compose standard database queries and assemble information for further research. Here we present a pilot implementation developed in collaboration with the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) that includes content from the StrainInfo, GOLD, CAMERA, Silva and Pubmed databases. This implementation demonstrates the power of ontogration and highlights that the usefulness of this approach is fully dependent on both the quality of data and the KOS (ontologies) used. Ideally, the use and further expansion of this collaborative system will help to surface issues associated with the underlying quality of annotation and could lead to a systematic means for accessing integrated data resources.

[Norman Morrison]

Dear iEvoBio Organisers,

Thank you for a most enlightening and enthusiastic conference, I really enjoyed it and certainly hope to attend again.

It was an unexpected honour to win the data integration challenge and I look forward to the collaborations that this may help generate in the future.

Please find below the link to the Ontogrator Open Source Software on GitHub. 

https://github.com/Ontogrator

I'm off to catch my flight home now... I hope to see you all again in the near future.  

Kind regards,

Norman

<iEvoBio Ontogrator N Morrison.pptx>

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Dr Norman Morrison
Room LF8, School of Computer Science, Kilburn Building,
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, MANCHESTER, UK. M13 9PL.
Web: http://nebc.nox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)161 275 0646 Fax: +44 (0)161 275 6236

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Dr Norman Morrison
Room LF8, School of Computer Science, Kilburn Building,
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, MANCHESTER, UK. M13 9PL.
Web: http://nebc.nox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)161 275 0646 Fax: +44 (0)161 275 6236