95a44a9c-6f70-454f-9d3e-5e9d5684bb51 3.1.1 EcoPortal 2020 2022 To address the today’s ecological challenges, it is necessary to use data coming from different disciplines and providers. Discovery and integration of data, especially from the ecological domain, is highly labour-intensive and often ambiguous in semantic terms. To improve the location, interpretation and integration of data based on its inherent meaning vocabularies can help in harmonizing and enriching descriptions of data, providing a formal mechanism for the definition of terms and their relationships. To satisfy these emerging needs LifeWatch ERIC developed a Semantic Resources Catalogue (EcoPortal) focused on the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research. This effort will help to support the community in the management and integration/alignment of their semantics and subsequently also of their data. The main goal of the EcoPortal initiative is to provide a unique platform for vocabularies in the ecological and domain for different kinds of stakeholders. Ilaria Rosati Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems - National Research Council ilaria.rosati@cnr.it Lucia Vaira LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre lucia.vaira@lifewatch.eu https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/95a44a9c-6f70-454f-9d3e-5e9d5684bb51/attachments/EcoPortal.png EcoPortal.png https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/srv/api/records/95a44a9c-6f70-454f-9d3e-5e9d5684bb51/attachments/EcoPortal.png semantics data management ecology thesaurus metadata controlled vocabulary gazetter editing tool mapping alignment annotation Digital Object Identifier SKOS OWL RDF SPARQL JSON LifeWatch ERIC Open access Browser https://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu/ontologies The Browser tool allows to search semantic resources. There are two options: - go through the list and select the semantic resource to see more detailed information; - start typing the semantic resource name or abbreviation in the “Search…” field. Search semantic resources Search https://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu/search The Search tool allows to find a term across semantic resources by entering free text in the “Search…” field and clicking on the “Search” button. Find a term across semantic resources Publish https://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu/login?redirect=/ontologies/new The Publish tool allows to publish a new semantic resource. Login is required for the publication Publish a new semantic resource Annotator https://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu/annotator The Annotator tool allows to generate annotations by entering or pasting free text in the box and clicking on the “Get Annotations” button. Generate annotations Mappings https://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu/mappings The Mappings tool allows to associate two or more terms in different semantic resources. This association typically, but not always, represents a degree of similarity between the terms. Associate two or more terms in different semantic resources Recommender https://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu/recommender The Recommender tool allows to get recommendations for the most relevant semantic resources based on an excerpt from a ecological text or a list of keywords. Get recommendations for the most relevant semantic resources Vocbench https://vocbench.lifewatchitaly.eu/vocbench3/#/Home The Vocbench tool allows to manage OWL ontologies, SKOS(/XL) thesauri, Ontolex-lemon lexicons and generic RDF datasets. It is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform, designed to meet the needs of semantic web and linked data environments. EcoPortal uses Vocbench as an editor for its resources with a customised version (v.8.0.2-beta.0). Manage OWL ontologies, SKOS(/XL) thesauri, Ontolex-lemon lexicons and generic RDF datasets data discovery data management data annotation data access data processing data classification The second release of EcoPortal has been funded by the LifeWatchPLUS project, a PNO-IR project, designed to optimise the national biodiversity and ecosystem research community’s involvement within LifeWatch Italy, reinforce the National Distributed Institute on Biodiversity Research, the heart of the Italian node of the infrastructure, and so to increase in both quantitative and qualitative terms the Italian contribution within LifeWatch ERIC. https://helpdesk.lifewatch.eu https://github.com/lifewatch-eric/documentation/wiki https://github.com/lifewatch-eric/documentation/wiki https://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Link to the service