As part of CAIN's work in developing semantic web technologies we have been developing schemas and ontologies expressed in the web ontology language OWL. These include the following:

• A biodiversity resource ontology
• A subclass of the biodiversity resources ontology describing CalFed conference abstracts
• An extension to the biodiversity resources ontology describing California-specific resources
• A representation of a portion of the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships database, including an ontology for the habitat relationships information, and instance data for amphibian habitat relationships in RDF/XML and N3 formats.
• Ontologies from the SPIRE project describing invasive species lists and their relationships. These include the following:
  • http://cain.ice.ucdavis.edu/crisis/Cal-IPC.owl
  • http://cain.ice.ucdavis.edu/crisis/CaliforniaIntroducedAnimals.owl
  • http://cain.ice.ucdavis.edu/crisis/CaliforniaInvasiveAnimals.owl
  • http://cain.ice.ucdavis.edu/crisis/CaliforniaInvasivePlantAlerts.owl
  • http://cain.ice.ucdavis.edu/crisis/ISSG-GISD.owl
  • http://cain.ice.ucdavis.edu/crisis/NASnonNatives.owl
  • http://cain.ice.ucdavis.edu/crisis/NPSaliens.owl
  • http://cain.ice.ucdavis.edu/crisis/USFWSInjuriousAnimals.owl

See also our related work on thesauri development.