Ontology-based GML schema matching for spatial information integration

Author

Guan, Ji-hong ; Zhou, Shui-geng ; Chen, Jun-peng ; Chen, Xiao-long ; An, Yang ; Yu, Wei ; Wang, Rong ; Liu, Xu-jun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Wuhan Univ., China

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

2-5 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

2240

Abstract

The variety and complexity of spatial data models and geographic information systems (GIS) together with the popularity of WWW have led to an increasing number of heterogeneous and autonomous geo-referenced information sources that spread over the Internet. This paper proposes a framework for integrating distributed spatial information based on GML schema matching by using ontology. GML is adopted as the common format for spatial information wrapping and mediation, and ontology is used to overcome the heterogeneity when matching different GML schemas. A prototype is also implemented based on the proposed framework.

Keywords

Internet; Web sites; geographic information systems; hypermedia markup languages; GIS; GML schema matching; Internet; World Wide Web; geographic information system; ontology; spatial information integration; Computational Intelligence Society; Computer science; Data engineering; Data models; Geographic Information Systems; Internet; Mobile agents; Ontologies; World Wide Web; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2003 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8131-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMLC.2003.1259879

Filename

1259879