Benefits of Terminologies in Earth System Science - BITS

Abstract

The BITS Project (BluePrints for the Integration of Terminology Services in Earth System Sciences) aims to address the inadequate implementation of encoding semantics by establishing a Terminology Service that may serve the whole Earth System Science Community on national, european and international level. This TS will be developed based on the existing Terminology Service of the TIB, supplemented by an ESS Collection that already contains relevant terminologies for Earth and Environmental Sciences and to which further relevant terminologies will be added. The implementation of this TS within two data repositories (World Data Center for Climate at the German Climate Computing Center and a Data Collection at Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research) will showcase the benefits regarding e.g. enhanced and improved discoverability of research products. Our Poster will highlight the general benefit of using Terminologies in Earth System Science, applying the BITS Project as a practical, sustainable and (hopefully) reusable example.