Abstract
The Earthcube Geosemantics Framework (https://ecgs.ncsa.illinois.edu/)
developed a prototype of a decentralized framework that combines the
Linked Data and RESTful web services to annotate, connect, integrate,
and reason about integration of geoscience resources. The framework
allows the semantic enrichment of web resources and semantic mediation
among heterogeneous geoscience resources, such as models and data. This
notebook provides examples on how the Semantic Annotation Service can be
used to manage linked controlled vocabularies using JSON Linked Data
(JSON-LD), including how to query the built-in RDF graphs for existing
linked standard vocabularies based on the Community Surface Dynamics
Modeling System (CSDMS), Observations Data Model (ODM2) and Unidata
udunits2 vocabularies, how to query build-in crosswalks between CSDMS
and ODM2 vocabularies using SKOS, and how to add new linked vocabularies
to the service. JSON-LD based definitions pro- vided by these endpoints
will be used to annotate sample data available within the IML Critical
Zone Observatory data repository using the Clowder Web Service API
(https://data.imlczo.org/). By supporting JSON-LD, the Semantic
Annotation Service and the Clowder framework provide examples on how
portable and semantically defined metadata can be used to better
annotate data across repositories and services.