Title :
Machine understandable information representation of geographic related data to the administrative structure of Bangladesh
Author :
Hafizur Rahman, Md Hasan ; Chakraborty, Shiladri ; Seddiqui, Md Hanif
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Abstract :
The heterogeneous data on the web related to the geographic information of a country is an increasingly important field of data sharing and integrating with diverse sources for retrieving suitable information using search engines. These heterogeneous geographic data is mostly available in unstructured or semi-structured format. Converting and integrating these data into a machine understandable representation is a challenging task and is getting researchers´ attention at a rapid pace. In this regard, we described geographic data for administrative structure of Bangladesh which integrated all resources and instances by comprising of their concepts and relations, coined a repository name Geo-Bangladesh by rich semantic Resource Description Framework (RDF). Then we utilized our Geo-Bangladesh with one more knowledge repository Bangladeshi-Citizen to achieve the semantic interoperability in our application. Furthermore, we performed SPARQL query operations on our proposed semantic knowledge repository to retrieve and inference specific information that shows its usability and effectiveness through the adequate quantitative results, both in term of concepts and geographical entities of the administrative structure of Bangladesh.
Keywords :
Internet; geographic information systems; knowledge management; open systems; public administration; search engines; Bangladesh administrative structure; Bangladeshi-Citizen; Geo-Bangladesh; RDF; SPARQL query operations; data sharing; geographic information; geographical entities; heterogeneous geographic data; information inference; information retrieval; machine understandable information representation; search engines; semantic interoperability; semantic knowledge repository; semantic resource description framework; semistructured format data; Databases; Interoperability; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantics; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2013 16th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Khulna
DOI :
10.1109/ICCITechn.2014.6997359