Host: The Japanese Forestry Society
The objectives of this research are to develop the integrated database based on the ontology for forest science. The ontology began to be studied focusing on genome science as a means of the knowledge representation to contribute knowledge sharing and support discovery of new knowledge. All the data are collected from literatures according to controlled vocabulary. Constructed ontology was expressed by the hierarchy in XML form and the network graph. As a result, the improvement in the correctness of functional prediction or inference, the mitigation of the operating for users, the realization of knowledge sharing and reuse, and discovery of new knowledge is expected, when the database based on the ontology constructed by this research was developed in the future.
