SUPPORTING CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH THROUGH MODELLING A REUSABLE ONTOLOGY FRAMEWORK

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FIGURE 1 Identifying any coral reef – semantic building blocks (Davey, Holmes, and Johnstone, 2008).

FIGURE 2 The semantic reef workflow concept.

FIGURE 3 The hierarchical ontology design – from lightweight to heavyweight.

TABLE 1 Current Statistics for the Reusable and Usable Ontology Base Used to Demonstrate Hypothesis Testing on the GBR

		Named classes		Properties
Ontology	Level	Primitive	Defined	Object	Data type	Restrictions
Coral reef	Domain (reusable)	343	92	25	45	171
Coral reef GBR	Application (usable)	388	92	25	45	351

FIGURE 4 A Kepler workflow for streaming data from Davies Reef sensors into the knowledge base.

FIGURE 5 Reef types classified by the Pellet Reasoner to belong to the respective “reef type” model – grid location, a fast growth composition, and shelf location.

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