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Semantic Harmonization Cluster
ACTIVE
What we do: Disseminate best practices for harmonizing semantic resources, focusing on harmonizing the SWEET ontology with other commonly used ontologies, such as ENVO.
Why we do it: Semantic harmonization is crucial to ensure data interoperability, discoverability, and reusability for better scientific collaboration and understanding.
About the Cluster
The Semantic Harmonization cluster is a spinoff from the Semantic Technologies Committee. While its long term goals are to disseminate best practices for harmonizing semantic resources; its current focus is on bringing the SWEET ontology up-to-date while harmonizing it with other commonly used ontologies such as ENVO and working on a semantic harmonization paper. We started by tackling ENVO to SWEET harmonization via a series of monthly mini-hackathons focusing for the moment on the cryosphere and the terminology work done under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Cryosphere Watch program.
That initial work is completed and we are collaborating on a number of other topic areas of interest to ESIP such as wildfires and initial work supporting the Soil cluster, and we are now discussing the use of GenAIs to harmonize some semantic resources.
Join the Cluster at their monthly meeting on the on every third Wednesday, 2PM Eastern Time.
Upcoming events on the community calendar
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Week of Events
October 27, 2025
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Canceled
Partnership Committee – CANCELED
Canceled Partnership Committee – CANCELED
Join via Zoom. All meetings are scheduled in U.S. Eastern Time Zone. Convert to your time zone. What we're working on ESIP Partners work together to meet environmental data challenges […]
October 28, 2025
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Open Science
Open Science
Monthly on the fourth Tuesday. Join via Zoom. All meetings are scheduled in U.S. Eastern Time Zone. Convert to your time zone. What we're working on: The cluster aims to […]
Free
October 28, 2025
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Physical Sample Curation
Physical Sample Curation
This Month: Joseph Lane from the University of Memphis will present: Progress Toward Establishing a Physical Sample Repository, or the Mississippi Embayment Research Center Monthly on the fourth Tuesday. Join […]
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Free
October 30, 2025
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Agriculture and Climate Exploratory Meeting
Agriculture and Climate Exploratory Meeting
The ESIP community has some renewed interest in reactivating the Agriculture and Climate Cluster. This event will be an exploratory meeting to identify what types of activities the Cluster could […]
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October 30, 2025
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Featured
Open Office Hour – JAN26 ESIP Meeting Sessions
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Open Office Hour – JAN26 ESIP Meeting Sessions
Join ESIP staff to discuss your session ideas and get feedback. View the Call for Sessions Intended for ESIP JAN26 Meeting session organizers, this time is available to you for […]