%0 Journal Article
%T Ecolingua: a formal ontology for data in ecology
%A Brilhante
%A Virg¨Ēnia
%J Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
%D 2005
%I Springer
%R 10.1007/BF03192376
%X ecolingua is an ontology for ecological quantitative data, which has been designed through reuse of a conceptualisation of quantities and their physical dimensions provided by the engmath family of ontologies. a hierarchy of ecological quantity classes is presented together with their definition axioms in first-order logic. an implementation-level application of the ontology is discussed, by way of which conceptual ecological models are synthesised from data annotations in ecolingua through reuse of existing model structures.
%K ontology reuse
%K engineering and application
%K ecological data
%K model synthesis.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-65002005000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en