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Cross-Domain Application
The main objective of cross-domains is to demonstrate how methods and tools created by SIRIUS’ researchers obtained from working in the oil&gas domain transfer to other areas in industry, biomedicine, and environmental applications. In 2021, there were three main areas of focus for cross-domain: Healthcare, Earth Science, and Biodiversity.
• Transfer to Healthcare
We have previously focused on semantic integration and semantic mapping tasks (in the earlier BIGMED project)
as well as formal methods for process planning (health organization logistics). In 2021, we conducted scoping work and consortium building activities for data-driven decision making in healthcare policymaking. This work resulted in cross-domain applications from the Ontology Engineering and Data Science research programs. Scoping activities in ontology-based data integration, included exploration of healthcare-related OBDI mappings and requirements for an AI Knowledge Base, and Explainable AI. A processing pipeline for unstructured data was also mapped out as a part of these activities.
• The Earth Science project covers research by the Execution Modelling and Analysis group on cloud computing.
This project is concerned with the development of distributed deep learning techniques for the analysis of satellite images, focussing on the detection of sea ice. The project is run by the CIRFA SFI in Tromsø, with Einar Broch Johnsen as part of the supervision team for a PhD student. The PhD project is now in the completion phase.
• The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Arts- databanken) is a project related to ontology engineering research (OTTR and modeling) and ODBI.
In 2021, SIRIUS delivered a report to the Norwegian Bio- diversity Information Centre covering design, development, reuse, and implementation of ontologies in environmental science as well as ontology-based data integration (ODBI) for a new service, TraitBank. The Norwegian TraitBank is Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre’s solution for describing, connecting, and displaying data on species and nature type traits. This growing resource containing Norwegian species’ trait data will be used for knowledge-based
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conservation and research. The work completed by SIRIUS included piloting implementation of semantic technology for the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre’s data on species and an initial ontology constructed for the TraitBank. The result of this work was a step towards streamlining onto- logy reuse/construction and implementation of OTTR templates. In addition, we
focused on integrating TraitBank’s data with other NBIC resources, specifically data for red-listed and alien species. Our vision is to demonstrate the tools built by the ontology engineering group that apply to environmental science data.
For further information about this work, contact Laura Slaughter or Leif Harald Karlsen.
Highlights of 2021
• Biodiversity applications and further work on ontologies.
• Submission of proposal with Norwegian Cancer Registry. Scoping activities in biomedical applications
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