Taxonomy OWLizer: a tool for converting taxonomic data into OWL.

dc.contributorFILIPI MIRANDA SOARES, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
dc.contributorANTONIO MAURO SARAIVA, UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO
dc.contributorLUÍS FERREIRA PIRES, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
dc.contributorLUIZ OLAVO BONINO DA SILVA SANTOS, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
dc.contributorDEBORA PIGNATARI DRUCKER, CNPTIA.
dc.creatorSOARES, F. M.
dc.creatorSARAIVA, A. M.
dc.creatorPIRES, L. F.
dc.creatorSANTOS, L. O. B. da S.
dc.creatorDRUCKER, D. P.
dc.date2025-12-03T16:48:53Z
dc.date2025-12-03T16:48:53Z
dc.date2025-12-03
dc.date2025
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:18:26Z
dc.descriptionThe growing demand for high-quality, interoperable biodiversity data exposes the current challenges of standardizing taxonomic information across platforms. While the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Backbone Taxonomy (GBIF Secretariat 2023) offers a valuable reference for species names, translating this information into formal ontology structures for semantic integration remains a complex task. A key challenge lies in the dynamic nature of taxonomic knowledge: as GBIF-BT is continuously updated, ontologies built manually from its data risk becoming outdated or misaligned. Without automated mechanisms for synchronizing with these updates, such ontologies may fail to reflect current taxonomic consensus, limiting their interoperability and long-term usefulness in biodiversity informatics. To address this problem, we developed the Taxonomy OWLizer (TOWLizer), a lightweight web application that allows users to convert species names into Web Ontology Language (OWL) ontologies based on taxonomic data retrieved directly from the GBIF Species API, as detailed in Fig. 1.
dc.descriptionPresented at Living Data 2025, Bogotá, Colômbia.
dc.identifierBiodiversity Information Science and Standards, v. 9, e176413, 2025.
dc.identifierhttp://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1182234
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.3897/biss.9.176413
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/457251
dc.languageeng
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.subjectOntologia
dc.subjectWeb semântica
dc.subjectRDF
dc.subjectChatGPT
dc.titleTaxonomy OWLizer: a tool for converting taxonomic data into OWL.
dc.typeResumo em anais e proceedings

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