@inproceedings{tuominen-et-al-taxmeon-2011,
  author = 	 {Jouni Tuominen and Nina Laurenne and Eero Hyvönen},
  title = 	 {Biological Names and Taxonomies on the Semantic Web -- Managing the Change in Scientific Conception},
  booktitle = {The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. ESWC 2011},
  month = 	 {June},
  year = 	 {2011},
  pages = {255–269},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21064-8_18},
  location = {Heraklion, Greece},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
  note = 	 {},
  abstract = {Biodiversity management requires the usage of heterogeneous biological
information from multiple sources. Indexing, aggregating, and finding
such information is based on names and taxonomic knowledge of
organisms. However, taxonomies change in time due to new scientific
findings, opinions of authorities, and changes in our conception about
life forms. Furthermore, organism names and their meaning change in
time, different authorities use different scientific names for the
same taxon in different times, and various vernacular names are in use
in different languages. This makes data integration and information
retrieval difficult without detailed biological information. This
paper introduces a meta-ontology for managing the names and taxonomies
of organisms, and presents three applications for it: 1) publishing
biological species lists as ontology services (ca. 20 taxonomies
including more than 80,000 names), 2) collaborative management of the
vernacular names of vascular plants (ca. 26,000 taxa), and 3)
management of individual scientific name changes based on research
results, covering a group of beetles. The applications are based on
the databases of the Finnish Museum of Natural History and are used in
a living lab environment on the web.},
  OPTproject = {http://www.seco.tkk.fi/ontologies/biology/,http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/finnonto2/},
  OPTannote = {biology, taxonomy, organism names, semantic web, ontologies, ontology services, dynamic ontologies, vocabularies}
}