GeoKnow: Leveraging Geospatial Data in the Web of Data
Open Data on the Web Workshop, (April 2013)Abstract
Producing and updating geospatial data is expensive and resource intensive.
Hence, it becomes crucial to be able to integrate, repurpose and extract added
value from geospatial data to support decision making and management of lo-cal, national and global resources. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) and the
standardisation e orts from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) serve this
goal, enabling geospatial data sharing, integration and reuse among Geographic
Information Systems (GIS). Geospatial data are now, more than ever, truly
syntactically interoperable. However, they remain largely isolated in the GIS
realm and thus absent from the Web of Data. Linked data technologies en-abling semantic interoperability, interlinking, querying, reasoning, aggregation,
fusion, and visualisation of geospatial data are only slowly emerging. The vision
of GeoKnow is to leverage geospatial data as rst-class citizens in the Web of
Data, in proportion to their signi cance for the data economy.
Links and resources
Tags
community
@alegrm's tags highlighted