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We present an ontology for managing the scientific and common names of birds. The ontology is based on the TaxMeOn meta-ontology model for biological names. The ontology is in use as an ontology service and it has been applied in a bird watching system.
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Tuominen, J., Laurenne, N., Koho, M., Hyvönen, E. (2013). The Birds of the World Ontology AVIO. In: Cimiano, P., Fernández, M., Lopez, V., Schlobach, S., Völker, J. (eds) The Semantic Web: ESWC 2013 Satellite Events. ESWC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7955. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41242-4_51
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