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A rule-based model for knowledge integrity testing among dispersed autonomous heterogeneous taxonomic databases

Reference	BIF08778
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Richard White
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Frank Bisby
Institution	University of Southampton
Department	Centre for Biological Sciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	81,282
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	07/01/1998
End date	07/01/2000
Duration	24 months

Abstract

Taxon catalogues have a complex set of integrity rules within and between species. These rules can be used for semi- automated screening of the species diversity knowledge sets that are increasingly being submitted electronically to world- wide species checklist projects. We propose to formalise the integrity rules and devise algorithms to detect conflicts between the data sets. This will allow us to create software tools to compare species diversity data sets for compatibility, and manage the reporting and resolution of conflicts. The resulting model, algorithms and tools will benefit a wide community of international species diversity database projects. The software architecture will be designed to allow application in two scenarios: merging knowledge sets at one site and linking dispersed autonomous heterogeneous databases such as those becoming available on the World-wide Web. (Joint with grant 72/BIF08779).

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Bioinformatics (BIF) [1995-1997]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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BIF08779 A rule-based model for knowledge integrity testing among dispersed autonomous heterogeneous taxonomic databases

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