<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://www.lifewatch.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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EN-GB" lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">LifeWatch ERIC</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">EcoPortal</span></span></span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">,</span></span></span></span><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">a repository for semantic resources in the ecological domain, to
be used by different stakeholders (researchers, vocabulary managers, <span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">ontologists,</span></span> data
managers, </span></span><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">policy-support officers</span></span></span>, developers</span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">) and is </span></span><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">now in the process of populating it.</span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
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EN-GB" lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">Your research and semantic assets are particularly relevant to the
thematic scope of our repository: </span></span></span><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">ecology, biodiversity, as well as
biological and physical environmental observational data. We would therefore appreciate
it if you </span></span><b><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">shared your resource </span></span></b><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">- be it an ontology, a controlled list of
terms, a thesaurus, or any sort of ecological asset you may have created in RDF or
OWL - in EcoPortal. We can provide support and <a href="https://github.com/lifewatch-eric/documentation/wiki" target="_blank">guidance</a> throughout the process, as well as add value to your resources with the
assignment of a DOI, following a validation process based on the FAIR
principles.</span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" class=""><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">The vision is to provide a unique entry point for all ecological
semantic assets, continually improved with the involvement of a community of users. In fact, we would also like to ask
you to<b> express your interest in getting involved in use case design and
development</b>. This could include, for example, scenarios of exchange of metadata, metrics, concept mappings and annotation.</span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">In case you would indeed like to share your
resources in EcoPortal, we would kindly ask you to scroll through the attached
table and notify us if the information regarding your asset is incorrect.</span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">Attached to this email you
will also find a recent paper <span style="color:black" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class="size"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif" class="font">on EcoPortal</span></span></span>, as well as the repository's documentation.</span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">Hoping you are
interested in EcoPortal, we are looking forward to hearing from you.</span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">Yours sincerely,</span></span></span><br></p><div><span class="size" style="font-size:13.3333px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div>Xeni Kechagioglou<span class="size" style="font-size: 10.666666666666666px"></span><br></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size: 12px">Ontology Developer</span><span class="size" style="font-size: 12px"><br></span></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size: 12px">LifeWatch ERIC</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alberto Basset<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0.0px;text-decoration: none;display: inline;float: none;"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Full Professor of Ecology</span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0.0px;text-decoration: none;display: inline;float: none;"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">University of Salento</span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0.0px;text-decoration: none;display: inline;float: none;"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">73100 Lecce -ITALY</span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0.0px;text-decoration: none;display: inline;float: none;"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">tel. +39-0832-298722; mobile +39-388-1687222</span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0.0px;text-decoration: none;display: inline;float: none;"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">skype: alberto.basset</span></span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0.0px;text-decoration: none;display: inline;float: none;"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Salento University Prorector of Sustainability</span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0.0px;text-decoration: none;display: inline;float: none;"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Past President of the Ecological European Federation (</span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.europeanecology.org"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">www.europeanecology.org</span></a><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">)</span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0.0px;text-decoration: none;display: inline;float: none;"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">LIfeWatch-ERIC Executive Board (</span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.servicecentrelifewatch.eu"><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">www.lifewatch.eu</span></a><span class="font" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">)</span></span><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>