Metadata community profiles for the Semantic Web

GeoInformatica

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-176

  Bermudez, Luis ^a   Piasecki, Michael ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Metadata; Ontology; Semantic interoperability

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

DATA SHARING; GEOGRAPHIC METADATA STANDARD; SEMANTIC WEB; WEB BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE;

METADATA;

GIS; HYDROLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33646346110     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-006-7577-2     Document Type: Article

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