Abstract
The Semantic Web is an attempt to add meaningful annotations to Web resources, services and content that requires developing reference ontologies, which help to understand these annotations. The venue of the Web of Data makes the geographic information, which has become an important part of the current Web, widely usable.
This paper demonstrates how the Geospatial Web might take advantage from the Semantic Web. The show case is a services catalog dedicated to support the visualization applications based on on-the-fly data integration. The presented infrastructure for improving the catalog functionality applies an administrative geography, i.e. an ontology of political organization of the territory, published as Linked Data. The principal advantage of this approach is reflected by enhancing the functionality of the user application.
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This work has been partially supported by Spanish Government (projects “España Virtual“ ref. CENIT 2008-1030, TIN2007-65341 and PET2008_0026), the Aragón Government (project PI075/08), the National Geographic Institute (IGN) of Spain, GeoSpatiumLab S.L. The work of Aneta Jadwiga Florczyk has been partially supported by a grant (ref. AP2007-03275) from the Spanish government.
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Florczyk, A.J., Lopez-Pellicer, F.J., Béjar, R., Nogueras-Iso, J., Zarazaga-Soria, F.J. (2010). Applying Semantic Linkage in the Geospatial Web. In: Painho, M., Santos, M., Pundt, H. (eds) Geospatial Thinking. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, vol 0. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12326-9_11
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