The TaToo Semantic Case - Requirements, impacts and application

Up today numerous semantic developments, starting from ontologies and leading to semantic applications in various (mostly financial or business) domains have been de veloped and put on the market. Still real suitable systems or application fostering the enrichment of environmental resources in order to make them better understanda ble and/or discoverable for a broader community are missing or have not be thought of yet. TaToo (Tagging Tools b ased on a semantic discovery framework, FP7 project, www.tatoo-project.eu ) intends to demonstrate how the enorm ous amount of environmental information can become better discoverable and understandable for a broad rang e of user, e.g. from environmental experts up to the man on th e street. Clearly upfront to the definition, specification an d implementation of the TaToo framework and tools the requirements with respect to environmental resources handl ed in TaToo (e.g. environmental data, services, app lications etc.) have to be defined. TaToo deals with three scenario s, playing a two folded role. On the one hand they are key providers for challenging requirements but they are al so the evaluation facility to prove (as domain expe rts) the results of project. The proposed paper will describe: a) the main categories of requirements (incl. the a pproach of requirements collection) written down e. g. for tagging, cross-domain annotation and discovery, meta-information, ontologies, etc. b) brief overview on the tools and services for tag ging and discovery provided by the TaToo project c) description of Validation Scenario on Climate Twins Regions and its requirements as well as usage o f TaToo developments d) the expected impact on Europeans Single Information Space and its environmental society/community