Semantic Enablement for Spatial Data Infrastructures

  1. Krzysztof Janowicz1,*,
  2. Sven Schade2,
  3. Arne Bröring3,
  4. Carsten Keßler4,
  5. Patrick Maué4,
  6. Christoph Stasch4

Article first published online: 15 APR 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01186.x

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Transactions in GIS

Transactions in GIS

Volume 14, Issue 2, pages 111–129, April 2010

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Janowicz, K., Schade, S., Bröring, A., Keßler, C., Maué, P. and Stasch, C. (2010), Semantic Enablement for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Transactions in GIS, 14: 111–129. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01186.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Geography The Pennsylvania State University

  2. 2

    Institute for Environment and Sustainability European Commission – Joint Research Centre

  3. 3

    52° North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software

  4. 4

    Institute for Geoinformatics University of Münster

*Krzysztof Janowicz, Department of Geography, 302 Walker Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: jano@psu.edu

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Abstract

Building on abstract reference models, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has established standards for storing, discovering, and processing geographical information. These standards act as a basis for the implementation of specific services and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). Research on geo-semantics plays an increasing role to support complex queries and retrieval across heterogeneous information sources, as well as for service orchestration, semantic translation, and on-the-fly integration. So far, this research targets individual solutions or focuses on the Semantic Web, leaving the integration into SDI aside. What is missing is a shared and transparent Semantic Enablement Layer for SDI which also integrates reasoning services known from the Semantic Web. Instead of developing new semantically enabled services from scratch, we propose to create profiles of existing services that implement a transparent mapping between the OGC and the Semantic Web world. Finally, we point out how to combine SDI with linked data.

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