Using Web Services To Enhance Geographic Information Systems

Abstract

In this paper we describe an approach to the extension of geographic information systems to take advantage of the continuing development of capabilities of the Semantic Web. This is presented in the context of a portal based Geospatial Information Database (GIDB ), an object-oriented spatial database capable of storing multiple data types from multiple sources. We have developed our approach for a specific domain, spatially oriented meteorological and oceanographic, but this can clearly be applied to other spatial data domains. Finally we illustrate the use of the ontology development system based on Generative Sublanguage Ontologies (GSO), a type of linguistic ontology inspired by the Generative Lexicon Theory, to develop effective domain ontologies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA593112

Entities

People

  • Elizabeth Warner
  • Frederick E. Petry
  • Kaylan Gupta
  • Roy Ladner

Organizations

  • Knexus Research (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Models
  • Ontologies
  • Standards
  • Web Browsers
  • Web Service
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Theoretical Analysis.