A Biodiversity Semantic Associative Annotation Tool

MorphBank, an on-line museum quality collection of biological images, is an NSF funded project designed to facilitate the on-line collaboration of biologists from around the world [3]. This paper presents a methodology for the creation of an annotation tool for on-line collaboration and sharing of heterogeneous data through a common medium. The annotation tool combines the advantages of highly organized relational database, extensible XML schemas, Life Science Identifiers, and accepted industry ontologies using DataGrid technologies to facilitate collection and sharing information on biological specimens. Schematized annotation provides biologists with a flexible framework to perform annotations using their own data models. Structured XML documents enable structure-based semantic retrieval to improve the query accuracy. Retrieval performance can also be improved by combining the relational database and

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