Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic Web

Published:
April 23, 2008 by CRC Press - 216 Pages
Editor(s):
Peter van Oosterom, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Sisi Zlatanova, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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Features

  • Reflects recent initiatives in Europe and the United States to develop a rich set of standards, including the US DHS Geospatial Data Model
  • Addresses nontechnical aspects such as legal and organizational issues, copyrights, pricing policies, and access rights
  • Provides technical solutions for making metadata available via registry services
  • Emphasizes semantic aspects of the spatial information infrastructure throughout all chapters of the book

    • Summary

    Initiatives, such as INSPIRE and the US DHS Geospatial Data Model, are working to develop a rich set of standards that will create harmonized models and themes for the spatial information infrastructure. However, this is only the first step. Semantically meaningful models must still be developed in order to stimulate interoperability.

    Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures (SII) presents solutions to the problems preventing the launch of a truly effective SII. Leading experts in SII development present a complete overview of SII, including user and application needs, theoretical and technological foundations, and examples of realized working SII’s. The book includes semantic applications in each discussion and explains their importance to the future of geo-information standardization.

    Offering practical solutions to technical and nontechnical obstacles, this book provides the tools needed to take the next step toward a working semantic web—one that will revolutionize the way the world accesses and utilizes spatial information.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    P. Scarponcini, S.Camateros, O. Custers, S. Zlatanova, and
    P. van Oosterom
    Requirements and Challenges for Building a European
    Spatial Information Infrastructure: INSPIRE
    A. Annoni, A. Friis-Christensen, R. Lucchi,
    and M. Lutz
    Geometry Semantics in Spatial Information
    J. R. Herring, J. Sharma, R. V. Kothuri,
    and S. Ravada
    Semantic Web Technologies as the Foundation for the Information Infrastructure
    F. van Harmelen
    Standardization and Modeling of Transportation Infrastructure Semantics:Experience from GDF, TransXML, OPAL, and Framework
    P. Scarponcini
    How Earth Science Can Contribute to and Benefit From the Spatial Information Infrastructure
    A. Woolf and S. Nativi
    Opportunities and Challenges in Exploiting Semantics as an Aid to Information Integration: A National Mapping Agency Perspective
    C. Dolbear and G. Hart
    Using Formal Semantics for Services within the Spatial Information Infrastructure
    R. Lemmens
    Geosemantic Web Standards for the Spatial Information Infrastructure: Nice To Have or Hopeless Without?
    J. Lieberman and C. Goad
    A Standardized Land Administration Domain Model as Part of the (Spatial) Information Infrastructure
    A. Groothedde, C. Lemmen, P. van der Molen,
    and P. van Oosterom
    Metadata and Spatial Searching as Key Spatial Information
    Infrastructure Component: Future Standardization Developments
    M. Reuvers and H. J. G. L. Aalders
    The Spatial Information Infrastructure as Part of the
    Information Infrastructure
    B. Overgaard and T. Hansen

    Editorial Reviews

    " . . . logically-structured and accurate . . . suited to practitioners, students and educators in the SDI field . . . provides an interesting and useful collection of articles about the standardization approach to SDI semantics, summarizing the development of existing projects and presenting work on existing standards, as well as some other valuable chapters addressing particular aspects of research, implementation and back ground content relating to SDI semantics."

    – Kristin Stock, University of Nottingham, in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, May 2009, Vol. 75 No. 5

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