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Towards an Ontology for Reef Islands

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GeoSpatial Semantics (GeoS 2009)

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Reef islands are complex, dynamic and vulnerable environments with a diverse range of stake holders. Communication and data sharing between these different groups of stake holders is often difficult. An ontology for the reef island domain would improve the understanding of reef island geomorphology and improve communication between stake holders as well as forming a platform from which to move towards interoperability and the application of Information Technology to forecast and monitor these environments. This paper develops a small, prototypical reef island domain ontology, based on informal, natural language relations, aligned to the DOLCE upper-level ontology, for 20 fundamental terms within the domain. A subset of these terms and their relations are discussed in detail. This approach reveals and discusses challenges which must be overcome in the creation of a reef island domain ontology and which could be relevant to other ontologies in dynamic geospatial domains.

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  1. Escola Superior de Tecnologia i Cliencies Experimentals, Department of Llanguatges i, Sistems Informatics, University Juame I, 12071, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

    Stephanie Duce

  2. Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany

    Stephanie Duce

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  1. Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, PA, USA

    Krzysztof Janowicz

  2. Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106, CA, USA

    Martin Raubal

  3. Centro de Investigacion en Computacion, National Polytechnic Institute, 07738, Mexico City, Mexico

    Sergei Levashkin

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Duce, S. (2009). Towards an Ontology for Reef Islands. In: Janowicz, K., Raubal, M., Levashkin, S. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5892. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10436-7_11

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