Wim HugoKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen - DANS · DANS
Wim Hugo
Master of Engineering
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Introduction
I am working on the following concepts:
- Semantic Annotation and Research Infrastructure Management
- Semantic Annotation and Evidence Value Chains
- Architectures for Research Data/ Output Management
- Certification and Validation of Trust, FAIR, and CARE in the Research Value Chain
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We observe a growing universe of machine‐readable knowledge organisation systems (KOS) or even wider ‘semantic artifacts. We see at the same time, various attempts to bring semantic artifacts together via registries, catalogues and via cross‐walks among ontologies. This poster reflects how newest research on semantic interoperability informs curren...
Specifications and data model for compliance assessment, using EOSC PID Policy as a case study
Global population projections foresee the biggest increase to occur in Africa with most of the available uncultivated land to ensure food security remaining on the continent. Simultaneously, greenhouse gas emissions are expected to rise due to ongoing land use change, industrialisation, and transport amongst other reasons with Africa becoming a maj...
The Environmental and Earth sciences are faced with complex and dynamic challenges: they cannot be solved in isolation from each other or from other sciences, such as the social and health sciences. Researchers who tackle real world challenges must have data that are easy to use and understandable in a variety of contexts. An important element of u...
As information and communication technology has become pervasive in our society, we are increasingly dependent on both digital data and repositories that provide access to and enable the use of such resources. Repositories must earn the trust of the communities they intend to serve and demonstrate that they are reliable and capable of appropriately...
Information related to research sites is essential when describing the context of observations. It is a key element of site-based research infrastructures (RIs) and their catalogues. This paper is dedicated to the comparison of (meta)data models describing research sites in the ecosystem domain. A special focus is on sites in terrestrial and freshw...
In the case of the African continent, the estimates of most climate forcing components are associated with large uncertainties, above all the greenhouse gas budget. The EU-funded SEACRIFOG project is designing an observation network which aims at reducing these uncertainties. In this practice paper, we present the various steps towards the design o...
Promoting open access policies and licenses (Lead partner: SAEON, contributions from ICOS ERIC) Through a set of workshops the existing data access policies will be discussed and compared with open data policies and licences such as Creative Commons. These workshops will take the key results from Task 1.4 into account and specifically address the r...
Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) are fundamental variables that can be used for assessing biodiversity change over time, for determining adherence to biodiversity policy, for monitoring progress towards sustainable development goals, and for tracking biodiversity responses to disturbances and management interventions. Data from observations o...
There is currently a lack of representative, systematic and harmonised greenhouse gas (GHG) observations covering the variety of natural and human-altered biomes that occur in Africa. This impedes the long-term assessment of the drivers of climate change, in addition to their impacts and feedback loops at the continental scale, but also limits our...
Since its founding in 1993 the International Long-term Ecological Research Network (ILTER) has gone through pronounced development phases. The current network comprises 44 active member LTER networks representing 700 LTER Sites and ~ 80 LTSER Platforms across all continents, active in the fields of ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological rese...
Climate change is threatening ecosystems and societies in Africa. At the same time, population growth causing land-use change, increased energy demand and the development of industry and transport infrastructure contributes to increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is estimated that the majority of GHG emissions in Africa at present occur du...
Ecosystems and societies on the African continent are threatened by the consequences of climate change. Similarly, the continuing trend of population growth jointly occurring with rapid land-use change, increased energy demand and the development of industry and transport infrastructure contribute to increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and su...
Evidence-based feasibility assessments of Bioenergy in South Africa
Today’s research is international, transdisciplinary, and data-enabled, which requires scrupulous data stewardship, full and open access to data, and efficient collaboration and coordination. New expectations on researchers based on policies from governments and funders to share data fully, openly, and in a timely manner present significant challen...
Digital data and service centers, such as those envisaged by the ICSU World Data System (WDS), are subject to a wide-ranging collection of requirements and constraints. Many of these requirements are traditionally difficult to assess and to measure objectively and consistently. As a solution to this problem, an approach based on a maturity model is...
Interoperability in the field of Biodiversity observation has been
strongly driven by the development of a number of global initiatives
(GEO, GBIF, OGC, TDWG, GenBank, …) and its supporting standards
(OGC-WxS, OGC-SOS, Darwin Core (DwC), NetCDF, …). To a large
extent, these initiatives have focused on discoverability and
standardization of syntacti...
Over the past 3 years, SAEON has worked with a number of stakeholders
and funders to establish a shared platform for the management of
dissemination of E&EO research outputs, data sets, and services.
This platform is strongly aligned with GEO principles and architecture,
allowing direct integration with the GEOSS Broker. The platform has two
import...
Worldwide standardisation, and interoperability initiatives such as
GBIF, Open Access and GEOSS (to name but three of many) have led to the
emergence of interlinked and overlapping meta-data repositories
containing, potentially, tens of millions of entries collectively. This
forms the backbone of an emerging global scientific data infrastructure
th...
This paper will explore the history of the movement towards and development of CSDI-like platforms in South Africa to conclude with the presentation of a shared data platform, a system collectively developed by the Department of Science and Technology, the CSIR, SAEON and other stakeholders. This paper will also evaluate the requirements of a South...
The comprehensive content of the planning process for wastewater conveyance and treatment facilities, and the optimization thereof, resulted in the development of the Facilities Development and Planning Model (FDP). The FDP model was developed for the operators of wastewater care facilities in order to obtain an efficient and dynamic means of asses...
The comprehensive content of the planning process for wastewater conveyance and treatment facilities, and the optimization thereof, resulted in the development of the Facilities Development and Planning Model (FDP). The FDP model was developed for the operators of wastewater care facilities in order to obtain an efficient and dynamic means of asses...
Starting in 2005, the CSIR, SAEON, and a number of other stakeholders have collaborated [1] to conceptualise, define, and create systems that aim to extend the conventional, but rather narrow definition of spatial data infrastructure (SDI). This view typically defines a spatial data infrastructure as a framework of spatial data/ themes, its metadat...
International conference: Studying, modelling and sense making of planet earth. Lesvos, Greece. 1-6 June 2008 The paper outlines the challenges of modelling and assessing spatially complex human-ecosystem interactions, and the need to simultaneously consider rural-urban and rich-poor interactions. The context for exploring these challenges is South...