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Geospatial Semantic Web: Applications

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Encyclopedia of GIS

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Geospatial Web 3.0; Geospatial semantics web; Geospatial ontology

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The semantic web is an extension of the current web. It is a vision for the future of the web, in which information is given explicit meaning, making it easier for machines to automatically process and integrate information available on the web [1]. The geospatial semantic web adds space and time dimensions to the semantic web. “Web content” is used here to refer to network‐accessible distributed digital contents. A geospatial semantic web application is any software that takes advantage of the geospatial semantic web. Ontology is a fundamental building block of the semantic web in general and the geospatial semantic web in particular. Ontology is a partial specification of conceptualization [2,3]. Ontology can be thought of as a data model about a domain of interest. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed and adopted the Web Ontology Language (OWL) as the standard language to encode and share...

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  1. Image Matters LLC, Leesburg, VA, USA

    Yaser Bishr

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  1. Yaser Bishr
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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Bishr, Y. (2008). Geospatial Semantic Web: Applications. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_514

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