| Title: | Towards Interoperability: Has theoretical knowledge of Ontologies and Semantics had any impact on Geospatial Applications in GI Science? |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2015 |
| Authors: | Allan Mazimwe, Anthony Gidudu |
| Keywords: | Spatial modeling, Listeria monocytogenes, Multicriteria evaluation, Uncertainty analysis (UA), Sensitivity analysis (SA) |
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| Abstract: | The problem faced by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) today is the lack of interoperability among the various systems. Scientists do better when they share resources: computing power, data, tools, models, protocols, and results but making resources available is not the same as making them useful to others. Thus there is need to share common understanding of the structure of information among people or software agents, to enable reuse of domain knowledge, to make domain assumptions explicit and to automatically integrate disparate databases. This research focuses on how theoretical and conceptual research visions in the field of Ontologies and Semantics have impacted on spatial applications today. Using scholar search engines such as Web of Science, Google scholar, Research Gate and GI Science journals, a document review of ontology publications in GI Science was evaluated. Results showed a growing number in Ontology and Semantics publications in the geospatial domain since 1991 and that major research efforts have revolved around creation and management of geo-ontologies, ontology integration, and matching geographic concepts in web pages. Results further showed that ontologies and semantics have been used in SDI implementation, spatial databases, OGC web services, VGI, symbol grounding, semantic similarity, ́big’ Geodata and sensor networks, location based services, geocoding and so many other applications in the geospatial domain. This shows an evolution in different methods in representing multiple epistemological perspectives of same spatial events and entities as well as attaching contextual information in interest of enhancing interoperability across institutions and geography. |
| Link | https://www.technoscience.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2015_2_Towards-Interoperability.pdf |
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