A semantic registry using a Feature Type Catalogue instead of ontologies to support spatial data infrastructures

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 231-252

  Stock, Kristin M ^a,b   Atkinson, Rob ^b,c   Higgins, Chris ^d   Small, Mark ^d   Woolf, Andrew ^e   Millard, Keiran ^f   Arctur, David ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Social Change Online ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^f HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Ontology; Registries; Semantics; Spatial data infrastructure

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 77649140862     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810802570291     Document Type: Article

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