Diretrizes para a Compatibilização Semântica de Sistemas de Organização do Conhecimento em Biodiversidade.

This research deals with the semantic compatibility of Knowledge Organization Systems focused on the Biodiversity domain, with the general objective of proposing guidelines for terminological compatibility between different vocabularies used in indexing Biodiversity databases. To this end, the specific objectives are to study the concepts of semantic compatibility proposed by Information Science and Investigate the possibilities of applying semantic compatibility techniques in the integration of Biodiversity databases. In order to achieve the specific objectives, searches were carried out in databases in the area of Information Science in order to identify key authors who study the subject and an empirical study was carried out with terms present in the Pró Espécies project, whose objective is to unify information about Brazilian species. The analysis of terms and investigations in the literature served as a basis for proposing guidelines aimed at compatibility. It is concluded that carrying out semantic compatibility with a view to semantic integration is not an easy task, but that research that deals with compatibility and data sharing can show a path to be followed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]