2001-2004 (42 months)
Other partners:
European Union
Related to the agent technology, the agents and infrastructure produced can demonstrate to robustly support and enable integration of inland water domain knowledge, they are integrated in open source architecture and they enable and supporting water domain knowledge from distributed heterogeneous sources.
This is a significant and successful result of the research.
An Ontology covering the inland water domain has been developed, permitting queries to 4 databases, which are integrated and mapped against each other. The Ontology written in DAM+OIL and then later converted to OWL covers a significant number of water related indicators, with a multilingual user interface, though queries in the current prototype is limited to the use of a single language.
During the EDEN-IW project access is being facilitated to environmental information using a common controlled reference terminology, tailored to specific needs of the project. Both the controlled terminology and the glossary has been developed even above the level required taking into account also the Waterbase initiative and the Water Framework Directive.
In addition the EDEN-IW project has had influence on the system design two important information systems collecting environmental data for water bodies in Europe under the Water Framework Directive.
Two PhD theses resulted from this project: