Getting across information communities: Embedding semantics in the SDI for the Amazon

Earth Science Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 217-233

  Maué, Patrick ^a   Ortmann, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information communities; Information networks; Rule based mappings; Semantic annotations; Semantic web; Spatial data infrastructures

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EARTH SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL DATA;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 72549090675     PISSN: 18650473     EISSN: 18650481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12145-009-0033-8     Document Type: Article

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