Improving biodiversity data retrieval through semantic search and ontologies

摘要

A semantic search architecture to improve biodiversity data retrieval is proposed in this paper. Compared to the traditional keyword search, this semantic search architecture can improve search accuracy by using ontologies to understand user objectives and the contextual meaning of terms in the search. An ontology is a description of the concepts and relationships that can exist for a domain. Researchers studying the semantic web, semantic search, ontology, data integration, and biodiversity will want to study this work.