On Denotation and Connotation in Web Semantics, Collaboration and Metadata
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2020) | Viewed by 7760
Special Issue Editors
Interests: collaborative systems; computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW); data management; web-based visualization systems; metadata
Interests: earth observations; information technology; web ontologies; metadata; data
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Interests: data; metadata; web semantics; remote sensing; signal processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Earth systems science is fundamentally cross-disciplinary. This, increasingly, requires sharing and exchange of geoscientific information among researchers with different backgrounds and traditions crossing discipline boundaries. This information can be both rich and complex, and content is often not readily interpretable by either humans or machines. In the former case the lack of common semantics, tacit knowledge, and different paradigms harm collaborative research blocking communication and preventing convergence of practices, exchange formats, and access mechanisms. The key to addressing such issues is possibly the representation of knowledge, acting as a map: guiding actors and driving collaboration. Several approaches, methods, and tools can be employed that rely either on the strict denotative formalization of knowledge or loose connotative pragmatics.
The lively scientific community behind EGU ESSI2.1 session is discussing these topics, bringing continuously new ideas and solutions. This Special Issue will collect all the voices that could help in this perspective.
Possible topics:
- Collaborative scientific research in the geosciences
- E-research, collaboratories, virtual research environments (VRE)
- Reasoning in the geosciences.
- Formalization of reasoning and knowledge and tools to support it. (semantics, web-semantics, ontologies, controlled vocabularies)
- Representation of reasoning and knowledge (pragmatics, graphs, tags, annotations, and the like)
- Philosophy, history, and sociology of science with a specific focus on the geosciences.
- Data, information, and knowledge.
- Metadata and data models
Dr. Paolo Diviacco
Dr. Paolo Mazzetti
Dr. Alaitz Zabala Torres
Dr. Asch Kristine
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- collaborative research
- cross-disciplinary studies
- knowledge representation
- denotation
- connotation
- semantics
- pragmatics
- metadata
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