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Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic Web

By Sisi Zlatanova , Peter van Oosterom

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
1420070681, 9781420070682, 9781420070729
LCC
G70.212 .C74 2008
Open Library ID
OL11817207M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4764268 bytes)
Pages
216\220
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Initiatives, such as INSPIRE and the US DHS Geospatial Data Model, are working to develop a rich set of standards that will create harmonized models and themes for the spatial information infrastructure. However, this is only the first step. Semantically meaningful models must still be developed in order to stimulate interoperability. Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures (SII) presents solutions to the problems preventing the launch of a truly effective SII. Leading experts in SII development present a complete overview of SII, including user and application needs, theoretical and technological foundations, and examples of realized working SII’s. The book includes semantic applications in each discussion and explains their importance to the future of geo-information standardization. Offering practical solutions to technical and nontechnical obstacles, this book provides the tools needed to take the next step toward a working semantic web—one that will revolutionize the way the world accesses and utilizes spatial information.

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