Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Web Information Systems Engineering, 2001. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1393-X
DOI :
10.1109/WISE.2001.996702
