Building geospatial ontologies from geographical databases

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4853 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 195-209

  Baglioni, Miriam ^a   Masserotti, Maria Vittoria ^b   Renso, Chiara ^b   Spinsanti, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

GEOSPATIAL ONTOLOGY; QUERYING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC INFORMATION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 38349026414     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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