: This paper introduces the concept of Ontology based Geo-Object Catalog (OGOC). An OGOC acts as a focal point for a federation of independent geoobject sources, providing consolid...
Daniela F. Brauner, Marco A. Casanova, Carlos Jos&...
Machine understandable metadata forms the main prerequisite for the intelligent services envisaged in a Web, which going beyond mere data exchange and provides for effective conten...
Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Ioannis ...
Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
The Semantic Web vision aims to integrate and convert the vast amount of information available on the Internet into a machine-understandable network. The objective is to promote kn...
Semantic web services hold the promise of greatly increasing interoperability among software agents and web services by enabling content-based (as opposed to format-based) automat...