An Ontology Explorer for Biomimetics Database

Biomimetics contributes to innovative engineering by imitating the models, systems, and elements of nature. For biomimetics research, it is important to develop biomimetics database including widely varied knowledge across different domains such as biology and engineering. Interoperability of knowledge among those domains is necessary to create such a database. For this purpose, the authors are developing a biomimetics ontology which bridge gaps between biology and engineering. In this demo, the authors shows an ontology exploration tool for biomimetics database. It is based on linked data techniques and allows the users to find important keywords so that they can search meaningful knowledge from various databases.