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SAC
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Leveraging OWL for GIS interoperability: rewards and pitfalls
Information systems often require combining datasets available in different formats, and geographical information systems are no exception. While semantic technologies have been u...
Serge Boucher, Esteban Zimányi
COSIT
2009
Springer
119views GIS» more  COSIT 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Grounding Geographic Categories in the Meaningful Environment
Abstract. Ontologies are a common approach to improve semantic interoperability by explicitly specifying the vocabulary used by a particular information community. Complex expressi...
Simon Scheider, Krzysztof Janowicz, Werner Kuhn
COSIT
2003
Springer
118views GIS» more  COSIT 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
A Classification Framework for Approaches to Achieving Semantic Interoperability between GI Web Services
The discovery of services that are appropriate for answering a given question is a crucial task in the open and distributed environment of web services for geographic information. ...
Michael Lutz, Catharina Riedemann, Florian Probst
DGO
2003
128views Education» more  DGO 2003»
13 years 6 months ago
A Study on Automatic Ontology Mapping of Categorical Information
Semantic heterogeneity of information is a major barrier of information and system interoperability. Defining ontology of data and mapping ontologies among heterogeneous informati...
Naijun Zhou
GIS
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A WFS-based mediation system for GIS interoperability
The proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much wider access to data currently available in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In order t...
Omar Boucelma, Mehdi Essid, Zoé Lacroix