Using XML data integration and ontology reuse to share agricultural data

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 93-105

  Sall, Ousmane ^a   Lo, Moussa ^a   Gandon, Fabien ^b   Niang, Cheikh ^a   Diop, Ibrahima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GASTON BERGER   (Senegal)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Agricultural data integration; Ontology; Semantic dataweb; XML

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; WAREHOUSES; XML;

INTEGRATION APPROACH; MULTI AGENCIES; ONTOLOGY REUSE; ONTOLOGY SERVICES; ONTOLOGY-BASED; OWL ONTOLOGIES; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION;

DATA INTEGRATION;

EID: 66949142982     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2009.026258     Document Type: Article

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