Automatic Interpretation Biodiversity Spreadsheets Based on Recognition of Construction Patterns

Ivelize Rocha Bernardo, André Santanchè, Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas

2014

Abstract

Spreadsheets are widely adopted as "popular databases", where authors shape their solutions interactively. Although spreadsheets have characteristics that facilitate their adaptation by the author, they are not designed to integrate data across independent spreadsheets. In biology, we observed a significant amount of biodiversity data in spreadsheets treated as isolated entities with different tabular organizations, but with high potential for data articulation. In order to promote interoperability among these spreadsheets, we propose in this paper a technique based on pattern recognition of spreadsheets belonging to the biodiversity domain. It can be exploited to identify the spreadsheet in a higher level of abstraction – e.g., it is possible to identify the nature a spreadsheet as catalog or collection of specimen – improving the interoperability process. The paper details evidences of construction patterns of spreadsheets as well as proposes a semantic representation to them.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rocha Bernardo I., Santanchè A. and Cecília Calani Baranauskas M. (2014). Automatic Interpretation Biodiversity Spreadsheets Based on Recognition of Construction Patterns . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-029-1, pages 57-68. DOI: 10.5220/0004898200570068

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis14,
author={Ivelize Rocha Bernardo and André Santanchè and Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas},
title={Automatic Interpretation Biodiversity Spreadsheets Based on Recognition of Construction Patterns},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={57-68},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004898200570068},
isbn={978-989-758-029-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Automatic Interpretation Biodiversity Spreadsheets Based on Recognition of Construction Patterns
SN - 978-989-758-029-1
AU - Rocha Bernardo I.
AU - Santanchè A.
AU - Cecília Calani Baranauskas M.
PY - 2014
SP - 57
EP - 68
DO - 10.5220/0004898200570068