New project for sharing cave/karst data

[Peter Matthews]

More than cave surveying, but this UIS message might nevertheless be 
of interest...

Please consider joining up and influencing its direction while in its 
early stages. Work is already getting under way.

Peter Matthews
UIS Informatics Commission

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New group - Cave/Karst Linked Data facility

A new major international project, KarstLink, has started in UIS in 
which wide early participation is important.

The project is setting up the infrastructure and recommendations to 
facilitate the discovery, sharing and use of cave and karst data, one 
of the core aims of UIS. It is using the latest W3C (World Wide Web 
Consortium) recommendations for Linked Data on the Semantic Web. This 
will also involve creating a comprehensive ontology and vocabulary 
describing the cave and karst data environment. It is also liaising 
of course with other organisations interested in cave and karst information.

To make sure that the perspective, experience and requirements, 
including security, for all countries and each karst science 
community are allowed for, it is important that cavers, karst 
scientists and cave managers participate early on. As Fadi Nader, UIS 
General Secretary, said in his recent letter to country delegates 
promoting the project: "It is important that the group has wide 
international participation from both the caving and karst science 
communities to ensure that its final facilities and recommendations 
work for everyone."

The work is already under way, mainly at present by French and other 
Europeans, so it is important that interested people from around the 
world join in without delay. Further details, and links for joining 
the project's mailing list and wiki can be found on it's web page:

http://uisic.uis-speleo.org/exchange/karstlink/index-en.html

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