Development of a controlled vocabulary for semantic interoperability of mineral exploration geodata for mining projects

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1512-1522

  Ma, Xiaogang ^a,b   Wu, Chonglong ^a   Carranza, Emmanuel John M ^b   Schetselaar, Ernst M ^c   van der Meer, Freek D ^b   Liu, Gang ^a   Wang, Xinqing ^a   Zhang, Xialin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coding method; Geoscience terminology; Organization structure; Reconciliation of geodata; Standards

Indexed keywords

CODING METHODS; CONCEPTUAL SCHEMAS; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DATABASE APPLICATIONS; GEO-DATA; GEOSCIENCES; INTEGRATED DATABASE; INTER-RELATIONSHIPS; KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS; METADATA SCHEMA; MINING GROUPS; MINING PROJECTS; NATIONAL STANDARD; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOLOGY; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; METADATA; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALS; SEMANTICS; SILICATE MINERALS; STANDARDIZATION; TERMINOLOGY; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

MINING;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATABASE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINING; STANDARD (REFERENCE); TERMINOLOGY;

CHINA;

EID: 78649761230     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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