The FGDC Feature Registry and its Role in Supporting Semantic Interoperability

Abstract

This paper discusses the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) Feature Registry project and what the FGDC is doing to support semantic interoperability. It also discusses the semantic information captured for geospatial data by U.S. Federal Government agencies and their current practices for semantic mapping. This paper explores current, ongoing research and development that may contribute to enhancing the semantic interoperability for the geospatial data created by the U.S. Federal Government. Finally, this paper calls for additional research on semantic mapping that hopefully will lead to simplifying what has been appropriately labeled a "hard problem."

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA354781

Entities

People

  • Demetra Voyadgis
  • Kevin Backe

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Classification
  • Communities
  • Computer Programming
  • Data Sets
  • Data Transmission
  • Dictionaries
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Land Transportation
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Semantics
  • Standardization
  • Standards
  • Translations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics