Ontology-based metadata

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 709-726

  Schuurman, Nadine ^a   Leszczynski, Agnieszka ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

'CURRENT; ATTRIBUTE DATABASE; CONTEXT-BASED; INFORMATICS; NON-SPATIAL ATTRIBUTES; ONTOLOGY'S; ONTOLOGY-BASED; RELATIONAL DATABASE MODEL; SEMANTIC DATA; UNIVERSES OF DISCOURSE;

METADATA;

CADASTRE; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; GIS;

EID: 33750049638     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2006.01024.x     Document Type: Article

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