This effort transforms database design through ontologies, highlighting the SKOS approach and ArMet specification.
The MetWare project is going to make use of ontology technologies to control the content of the database, and a first step is to convert our MetWare database design into something using a formal ontology language. I have played with OWL in the past (see for example its use in Bioclipse ), but was not overly happy with it in all situations.
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