To ontologise or not to ontologise: An information model for a geospatial knowledge infrastructure

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 98-108

  Stock, Kristin ^a,b   Stojanovic, Tim ^c   Reitsma, Femke ^d   Ou, Yang ^e   Bishr, Mohamed ^f   Ortmann, Jens ^f   Robertson, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Allworlds Geothinking ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coastal applications; Ontology; Semantics; Spatial data infrastructure (SDI)

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; COASTAL APPLICATIONS; DATA SETS; DOMAIN CONCEPTS; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOSPATIAL COMMUNITY; INFORMATION MODELS; INTELLIGENT SEARCH; OPEN STANDARDS; RESOURCE DISCOVERY; SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE;

INFORMATION THEORY; INTEROPERABILITY; ONTOLOGY; STANDARDS; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

SEMANTICS;

COASTAL ZONE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84863427307     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.10.021     Document Type: Article

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