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SEEK Tools And Data

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- There are a variety of ecoinformatics tools created through [SEEK|home] and the [KNB|http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/index.jsp] projects. Most of these tools are [open source|http://www.opensource.org/] software solutions created for the ecological community.
- *[Grass|Grass]
+ There are a variety of ecoinformatics tools created through [SEEK|WelcomeToSEEK] and the [KNB|http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/index.jsp] projects. Most of these tools are [open source|http://www.opensource.org/] software solutions created for the ecological community.
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+ !!SEEK Software products
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- *[Morpho|Morpho]
- **Is an easy-to-use, cross-platform application for accessing and manipulating metadata and data (both locally and on the network).
- **It allows ecologists to create and manage your data, metadata (i.e. describe their data in a standardized format), and create a catalog of data & metadata upon which to query, edit and view data collections and share it with others.
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- *[Growl]
- *[MySQL|QSL]
- **Is an open source relational database management system.
- **It uses Structured Query Language (SQL) the most common standardized language used to access databases
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+ **Sparrow aims at combining algorithms and techniques from logic-based knowledge representation and databases into a single, open-source toolkit.
+ **It will also include new approaches to handle semantic information in scientific applications.
+ *[Growl]
+ **Is a visualization and editing tool for Ontology Web Language (OWL) and Description Logics (DL) ontologies based on a semantic network knowledge representation paradigm.\\
+ **It will also support design of graphic queries for OWL and DL knowledge bases.
+ *[Ontologies|KROntologies]
+ **A collection of ontologies cerated to represent scientific data, including the Observation Ontology (OBOE)
+ *[ConceptMapper|ConceptMapper]
+ **A desktop tool to assist taxonomists to relate taxonomic concepts from one classification to another and to manage taxonomic concept metadata that precisely define taxonomic concepts.
+ *[EarthGrid Portal]
+ **A web portal/search engine to data products through emerging web services technologies.
+ **Is a web interface for the [EcoGrid] software.
+ *[Taxonomic Object Server|TaxonomicObjectServer]
+ *[Taxonomic Concept Schema (TCS)|TaxonomicConceptSchema]
+ *[TaxVis|TaxVis]
+ ** A visualization tool for exploring multiple taxonomic hierarchies.
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+ !!Other software products of interest
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+ *[Ecological Metadata Language|http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/]
+ **Is a metadata specification for describing heterogeneous data sources.
+ *[Morpho|Morpho]
+ **Is an easy-to-use, cross-platform application for accessing and manipulating metadata and data (both locally and on the network).
+ **It allows ecologists to create and manage your data, metadata (i.e. describe their data in a standardized format), and create a catalog of data & metadata upon which to query, edit and view data collections and share it with others.
+ *[Grass GIS|http://grass.baylor.edu/]
+ **Is an open source, Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality.
+ **It operates on various platforms through a graphical user interface and shell in X-Windows.
+ *[R|http://www.r-project.org/]

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