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2007

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Building geospatial ontologies from geographical databases

Baglioni M., Masserotti M. V., Renso C., Spinsanti L.

GIS Conceptual modelling Ontologies H.2.8 Spatial Databases and GIS

The last few years have seen a growing interest in approaches that define methodologies to automatically extract semantics from databases by using ontologies. Geographic data are very rarely collected in a well organized way, quite often they lack both metadata and conceptual schema. Extracting semantic information from data stored in a geodatabase is complex and an extension of the existing methodologies is needed. We describe an approach to extract a geospatial ontology from geographical data stored in spatial databases. To provide geospatial semantics we introduce new relations which define geospatial ontology that can serve as a basis for an advanced user querying system. Some examples of use of the methodology in the urban domain are presented.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 4853 (2007): 195–209. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_13

Publisher: Springer, Berlin , Germania

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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:43975,
	title = {Building geospatial ontologies from geographical databases},
	author = {Baglioni M. and Masserotti M.  V. and Renso C. and Spinsanti L.},
	publisher = {Springer, Berlin , Germania},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_13},
	journal = {Lecture notes in computer science},
	volume = {4853},
	pages = {195–209},
	year = {2007}
}