TY - GEN
T1 - Ontology-driven geographic information systems
AU - Fonseca, Frederico T.
AU - Egenhofer, Max J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant number SBR-9700465. Max Egenhofer's research is further supported through NSF grants IRI-9613646, BDI-9723873 and IIS-9970123; the National Imagery and Mapping Agency under grant number NMA202-97-1-1023; the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, under grant number 1 R 01 ES09816-01; and Bangor Hydro-Electric Co.; and a Massive Digital Data Systems contract sponsored by the Advanced Research and Development Committee of the Community Management Staff.
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© 1999 ACM.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This paper introduces a geographic information system architecture based on ontologies. Ontology plays a central role in the definition of all aspects and components of an information system in the so-called ontology-driven information systems. The system presented here uses a container of interoperable geographic objects. The objects are extracted from multiple independent data sources and are derived from a strongly typed mapping of classes from multiple ontologies. This approach provides a great level of interoperability and allows partial integration of information when completeness is impossible.
AB - This paper introduces a geographic information system architecture based on ontologies. Ontology plays a central role in the definition of all aspects and components of an information system in the so-called ontology-driven information systems. The system presented here uses a container of interoperable geographic objects. The objects are extracted from multiple independent data sources and are derived from a strongly typed mapping of classes from multiple ontologies. This approach provides a great level of interoperability and allows partial integration of information when completeness is impossible.
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U2 - 10.1145/320134.320137
DO - 10.1145/320134.320137
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85133706109
T3 - GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
SP - 14
EP - 19
BT - GIS 1999 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
A2 - Medeiros, Claudia Bauzer
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 7th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, GIS 1999
Y2 - 2 November 1999 through 6 November 1999
ER -