Building a global normalized ontology for integrating geographic data sources

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 893-916

  Buccella, Agustina ^a   Cechich, Alejandra ^a   Gendarmi, Domenico ^b   Lanubile, Filippo ^b   Semeraro, Giovanni ^b   Colagrossi, Attilio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data integration; Formal ontologies; Geographic information systems; Heterogeneous databases; ISO 19100; Ontology merging

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE; ISO 19100; ONTOLOGY MERGING;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; MERGING; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATABASE; GIS; HETEROGENEITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MAPPING;

EID: 79958736330     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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