A Prototype Ontology Tool and Interface for Coastal Atlas Interoperability

This research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation award #0527216 and #0607372, with additional support by the Marine Institute of Ireland’s Marine RTDI Networking and Technology Transfer Initiative under the National Development Plan and the Coastal and Marine Resources Centre of University College Cork. The prototype presented here is an attempt to provide a common point to access coastal data, maps and information from distributed atlases. The prototype connects two established coastal web atlases: the Marine Irish Digital Atlas (MIDA) , and the Oregon Coastal Atlas (OCA) , following best practices and semantic mediation experiences from the Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project .