Data Integration in the Geospatial Semantic Web Export

@article{citeulike:6038293, abstract = {Geospatial decision makers have to be aware of the varying interests of all stakeholders. One crucial task in the process is to identify relevant information available from the Web. In this chapter the authors introduce an application in the quarrying domain which integrates Semantic Web technologies to provide new ways to discover and reason about relevant information. The authors discuss the daily struggle of the domain experts to create decision-support maps helping to find suitable locations for opening up new quarries. After explaining how semantics can help these experts, they introduce the various components and the architecture of the software which has been developed in the European funded SWING project. In the last section, the different use cases illustrate how the implemented tools have been applied to real world scenarios.}, author = {Mau\'{e}, Patrick and Schade, Sven}, citeulike-article-id = {6038293}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?ID=35285}, editor = {Khosrow-Pour, M.}, journal = {Journal of Cases on Information Technology}, keywords = {geospatial-web, information-retrieval, semantic-annotations, semantics, swing, webservices}, number = {4}, pages = {100--122}, posted-at = {2009-10-30 00:05:03}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IGI Publishing}, title = {Data Integration in the Geospatial Semantic Web}, url = {http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?ID=35285}, volume = {11}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6038293 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6038293 N2 - Geospatial decision makers have to be aware of the varying interests of all stakeholders. One crucial task in the process is to identify relevant information available from the Web. In this chapter the authors introduce an application in the quarrying domain which integrates Semantic Web technologies to provide new ways to discover and reason about relevant information. The authors discuss the daily struggle of the domain experts to create decision-support maps helping to find suitable locations for opening up new quarries. After explaining how semantics can help these experts, they introduce the various components and the architecture of the software which has been developed in the European funded SWING project. In the last section, the different use cases illustrate how the implemented tools have been applied to real world scenarios. IS - 4 JF - Journal of Cases on Information Technology EP - 122 TI - Data Integration in the Geospatial Semantic Web PB - IGI Publishing VL - 11 SP - 100 KW - geospatial-web KW - information-retrieval KW - semantic-annotations KW - semantics KW - swing KW - webservices AU - Maué, Patrick AU - Schade, Sven A2 - Khosrow-Pour, M PY - 2009/// UR - http://www.igi-global.com/articles/details.asp?ID=35285 ER -