Authors:
Cristiano Fugazza
;
Monica Pepe
;
Alessandro Oggioni
;
Fabio Pavesi
and
Paola Carrara
Affiliation:
IREA-CNR, Italy
Keyword(s):
Spatial Data Infrastructures, Semantic Web, Marine Research, RDF.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Management and Quality
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Open Data
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
We present a novel approach to the management of Spatial Data Infrastrutures that leverages semantics-aware context information to model the distinct aspects involved in the management of geospatial data. RDF-based schemata are employed for encoding information about the user community, the terminologies in use in a specific research domain, gazetteer information representing the physical landscape underpinning data and, last but not least, resource metadata. The data structures are then interconnected to enable seamless exploitation for metadata creation and resource discovery, which we demonstrate through a worked-out example of SPARQL query on RDF graph data. The methodology is being applied by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) to support creation of a distributed infrastructure for marine data in the context of the RITMARE Flagship Project.