Title
A semantic web approach for geodata discovery
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
Currently, vast amounts of geospatial information are offered through OGC’s services. However this information has limited formal semantics. The most common method to search for a dataset consists in matching keywords to metadata elements. By adding semantics to available descriptions we could use modern inference and reasoning mechanisms currently available in the SemanticWeb. In this paper we present a novel architecture currently in development in which we use state of the art triplestores as the backend of a CSW service. In our approach, each metadata record is considered an instance of a given class in a domain ontology. Our architecture also adds a spatial dataset of features with toponym values. These additions allow us to provide advance searches based on 1) Instance to class matching, 2) Class to class subsuming relationships, 3) Spatial relationships resulting from comparing the bounding box of a metadata record with our toponym spatial dataset.
Start page
117
End page
126
Volume
8697
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Informática y Ciencias de la Información
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84919680020
PubMed ID
ISBN
9783319141381
Source
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ISSN of the container
03029743
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