Opportunities and challenges in exploiting semantics as an aid to information integration a national mapping agency perspective

Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic Web

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 89-102

  Dolbear, Catherine ^a   Hart, Glen ^a  

^a Universitity of Southampton   (United Kingdom)

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