LifeWatch Italy Semantic Platform

The LifeWatch Italy Semantic Platform allows to search and access the LifeWatch Italy resources with the help of semantically enriched queries.

It is based on a main semantic model that describes different resources and their metadata, as well as meaningful links between controlled vocabularies for Biodiversity and Ecosystems domain and resources of LifeWatch Italy.

The platform is powered by a semantic search engine that can be used in two modes: simple or structured.

Date ( Creation): 2022

Date ( Publication): 2022-11-30

Status: Completed

Principal investigator

Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR) - Ilaria Rosati

Principal investigator

University of Salento, LifeWatch Italy - Alberto Basset

Point of contact

Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR) - Ilaria Rosati

Keywords: semantics

Keywords: semantic platform

Keywords: semantic annotation

Keywords: semantic search

Keywords: structured search

Keywords: ontology

Keywords: vocabularies

Keywords: SPARQL

Access constraints: Copyright

Use limitation: LifeWatch Italy 2022

OnLine resource: Link to the platform (
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Operation name: Browse

Description: It is a section of the platform that allows to browse all LifeWatch Italy digital resouces: datasets, observations, services, Virtual Research Environments, Persons and Organizations. It is possible to filter columns, do a quick search into results, change the results per page and navigate to the search results. Clicking on the name of a specific resource, a detail page with all the associated metadata is shown.

Function: Browse all LifeWatch Italy digital resources.

Operation name: Structured Search

Web site: https://semantics.lifewatchitaly.eu/resource/:TabStructuredSearch

Description: It is a powerful mechanism for expressing the user’s request in an incremental way: structured search based on fundamental categories and relations. The structured search allows users that do not know how to write SPARQL queries in order to formulate questions that are more complicated with respect to a simple text-based search.

Function: Formulate complex queries.

Operation name: SPARQL Tool

Web site: https://semantics.lifewatchitaly.eu/resource/MySystem:SparqlEndpoint

Description: It allows to access the SPARQL endpoint and formulate new queries, and view pre-formulated queries from other users. Log in is required for this functionality.

Function: SPARQL endpoint.

Operation name: Semantic Annotation

Web site: https://semanticdocs.lifewatchitaly.eu/resource/:TabPlatformAnnotation

Description: It allows to perform three types of annotations: - Dataset Annotation: you can annotate the entire dataset; - Raw Data Annotation: you can annotate the raw data of a dataset, and labelling the type of each column; - Generic Annotation: you can annotate the generic data of a dataset, and labelling the type of each column. Log in and a specific role are required for this functionality.

Function: Semantic annotation.

Service Category: data management

Service Category: data annotation

Service Category: data visualization

Service Category: data processing

Service Language: eng

Service TRL: TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment

Service Funding: The development of the LifeWatch Italy Citizen Science Platform has been funded by the project LIFEWATCHPLUS PIR01_00028 (CUP: B67E19000030007) in the framework of NOP Research and Innovation 2014-2020 under the action “Enhancement of Research Infrastructures”.