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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. |
| + 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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| - *[Grass GIS|Grass GIS] |
| - *[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/] |
