Semantic and interoperable WebGIS

Author

Shanzhen, Yi ; Lizhu, Zhou ; Chunxiao, Xing ; Qilun, Liu ; Yong, Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

3-6 Dec 2001

Firstpage

42

Abstract

With the property of XML, RDFs, ontology and logic, Semantic Web provides intelligent services on the Web. Taking the advantages of Semantic Web, semantic WebGIS can realize semantic interoperability and integration of GIS on the Web. The key basis of semantic WebGIS is its domain ontology. As an information exchange standard, XML is an important method of implementing semantic WebGIS. The combination of domain ontology and XML can take the strengths of both to resolve the semantic interoperability problem. In this paper two examples are given to illustrate how this method works in solving queries on semantic heterogeneous information. An architecture based on ontology server mediator and wrapper is presented as a system solution

Keywords

Internet; geographic information systems; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; query processing; GIS; Internet; RDF; Semantic Web; WebGIS; World Wide Web; XML; domain ontology; geographic information system; information exchange standard; intelligent services; logic; ontology server mediator; queries; semantic heterogeneous information; semantic interoperability; wrapper; Artificial intelligence; Geographic Information Systems; HTML; Information systems; Internet; Logic; Machine intelligence; Ontologies; Semantic Web; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information Systems Engineering, 2001. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1393-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISE.2001.996702

Filename

996702