RITMARE: Semantics- Aware harmonisation of data in Italian marine research

RITMARE is a Flagship Project by the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR) and coordinated by the National Research Council (CNR). It aims at the interdisciplinary integration of national marine research. In pursuing a Linked Open Data (LOD) vocation, the RITMARE sub-project 7 is building the necessary domain-related data structures by leveraging existing RDF-based schemata and sources. These data structures are grounding semantics- Aware profiling of end users, data providers, and resources. The goal is designing a flexible infrastructure that adapts to the audience's specificities. © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.