An RDF model for meteorological and oceanographic information systems

This paper suggests an RDF Model for effective management of distributed data on the Semantic Web. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a data model that unifies aptly structured data. The Web is facing great challenge in data retrieval due to the increase and request of information from different sources. This brings the problem of information overload. In minimizing this problem, we provide a knowledge model for structuring data which is the first step of building Semantic Web. In particular, to elucidate the model, Meteorological and Oceanographic (MetOcean) data have been used. We present the result using SPARQL query method. Thus, the finding shows that the model is ideal for querying and data representation of distributed data.