A SKOS-based multilingual thesaurus of geological time scale for interoperability of online geological maps

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1602-1615

  Ma, Xiaogang ^a   Carranza, Emmanuel John M ^a   Wu, Chonglong ^b   Van Der Meer, Freek D ^a   Liu, Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Geodata interoperability; Information retrieval; Ontology; Semantic Web; Term recognition; Web Map Service (WMS)

Indexed keywords

GEODATA INTEROPERABILITY; GEOLOGICAL MAP; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GEOSCIENCES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; JAVASCRIPT PROGRAMS; KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS; MULTILINGUAL THESAURI; PILOT SYSTEM; TERM RECOGNITION; WEB MAP SERVICES;

GEOLOGY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTEROPERABILITY; LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

THESAURI;

GEOLOGICAL TIME; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MAP; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 80052521469     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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