A Web Ontology Service to facilitate interoperability within a Spatial Data Infrastructure: Applicability to discovery

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 947-971

  Lacasta, J ^a   Nogueras Iso, J ^a   Bejar R ^a   Muro Medrano, P R ^a   Zarazaga Soria, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Metadata; Ontologies; Spatial data infrastructures; Web services

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTEROPERABILITY; METADATA; ONTOLOGY;

LEXICAL ONTOLOGIES; SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURES; WEB ONTOLOGY SERVICE (WOS);

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34548775112     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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