RightField: Scientific knowledge acquisition by stealth through ontology-enabled spreadsheets

Katy Wolstencroft; Stuart Owen; Matthew Horridge; Wolfgang Mueller; Finn Bacall; Jacky Snoep; Franco Du Preez; Quyen Nguyen; Olga Krebs; Carole Goble

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33876-2_42

RightField: Scientific knowledge acquisition by stealth through ontology-enabled spreadsheets

Katy Wolstencroft, Stuart Owen, Matthew Horridge, Wolfgang Mueller, Finn Bacall, Jacky Snoep, Franco Du Preez, Quyen Nguyen, Olga Krebs, Carole Goble

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Abstract

RightField is a Java application that provides a mechanism for embedding ontology annotation support for scientific data in Microsoft Excel or Open Office spreadsheets. The result is semantic annotation by stealth, with an annotation process that is less error-prone, more efficient, and more consistent with community standards. By automatically generating RDF statements for each cell a rich, Linked Data querying environment allows scientists to search their data and other Linked Data resources interchangeably, and caters for queries across heterogeneous spreadsheets. RightField has been developed for Systems Biologists but has since adopted more widely. It is open source (BSD license) and freely available from http://www.rightfield.org.uk. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)\|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.
Pages	438-441
Number of pages	3
Volume	7603
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33876-2_42
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2012 - Galway City Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → …

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Conference	18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2012
City	Galway City
Period	1/07/12 → …

Keywords

biology
e-science
linked data
metadata standards
ontology annotation
RDF
spreadsheets

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Wolstencroft, K., Owen, S., Horridge, M., Mueller, W., Bacall, F., Snoep, J., Du Preez, F., Nguyen, Q., Krebs, O., & Goble, C. (2012). RightField: Scientific knowledge acquisition by stealth through ontology-enabled spreadsheets. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. (Vol. 7603, pp. 438-441) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33876-2_42

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Wolstencroft, K, Owen, S, Horridge, M, Mueller, W, Bacall, F, Snoep, J, Du Preez, F, Nguyen, Q, Krebs, O & Goble, C 2012, RightField: Scientific knowledge acquisition by stealth through ontology-enabled spreadsheets. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. vol. 7603, pp. 438-441, 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2012, Galway City, 1/07/12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33876-2_42

RightField: Scientific knowledge acquisition by stealth through ontology-enabled spreadsheets. / Wolstencroft, Katy; Owen, Stuart; Horridge, Matthew et al.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. Vol. 7603 2012. p. 438-441.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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