| Abstract |
In this study we developed a methodology for automatically deriving semantics from scientific spreadsheet data. During the design process of their spreadsheets, domain scientists implicitly include their domain model in the content and structure of the spreadsheet tables. The overall objective of this
research is to make this underlying domain model of scientific spreadsheet data explicit.
Our methodology iteratively combines heuristics on spreadsheet design with knowledge from external vocabularies. We explain and illustrate our method by actually applying it on spreadsheets from an existing research project from the domain of environmental science.
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