Linked Data for eScience Services (LIFE)

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Description

LIFEis a two-year project funded by the German Research Foundation, jointly carried out by the Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL) at the Institute for Geoinformatics and the University Library at University of Münster. The overall goal of the project is to facilitate sharing of spatio-temporal information and thus improve interdisciplinary collaboration in science and education. This approach addresses all kinds of resources, ranging from articles and books over maps to raw data.In LIFE, all developments will focus on linked spatio-temporal data. We develop integration and annotation workflows, in particular, ETL processes for linked data, eScience services which offer linked data for standard clients (including services for spatial data and maps), as well as spatio-temporal retrieval and search interfaces for researchers and students. The LIFE use cases include, among others, search interfaces for historic maps and for historic biographies, a campus resource navigation service and an eScience service for epidemiology.