Abstracting Transport to an Ontology Design Pattern for the Geosciences

ing Transport to an Ontology Design Pattern for the Geosciences Brandon Whitehead, Benjamin Adams, Mark Schildhauer, Charles Vardeman, Werner Kuhn, Adam Shepard, and Krishna Sinha 1 Centre for eResearch, University of Auckland 2 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UCSB 3 Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame 4 University of Münster 5 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 6 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Abstract. A core concept in geoscience/physical science research is the concept of transport. We present an ontology design pattern for the notion of transport in the geosciences using natural language coupled with a concept map. The top level concepts of the Transport Pattern are transport entity, transport mechanism, and transport event. These concepts are described in detail, and a brief example is provided to illustrate the usefulness of the pattern. A core concept in geoscience/physical science research is the concept of transport. We present an ontology design pattern for the notion of transport in the geosciences using natural language coupled with a concept map. The top level concepts of the Transport Pattern are transport entity, transport mechanism, and transport event. These concepts are described in detail, and a brief example is provided to illustrate the usefulness of the pattern.