Publication Date:
2021-05-19
Description:
In recent years significant momentum has occurred in the development of Internet resources for decision
makers and scientists interested in the coast. Chief among these has been the development of coastal web
atlases (CWAs). While multiple benefits are derived from these tailor-made atlases (e.g., speedy access to
multiple sources of coastal data and information), the potential exists to derive added value from the integration
of disparate CWAs, to optimize decision making at a variety of levels and across themes. This paper describes
the development of a semantic mediator prototype to provide a common access point to coastal data, maps and
information from distributed CWAs. The prototype showcases how ontologies and ontology mappings can be
used to integrate different heterogeneous and autonomous atlases, using the Open Geospatial Consortium’s
Catalogue Services for the Web.
Description:
Published
Keywords:
Coastal web atlas
;
Coastal atlas
;
Data semantics
;
Semantic web technologies
;
Information retrieval
;
GIS
;
Ontologies
;
Catalogue services for the web (CSW)
;
Mediation
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
Conference Material
,
Refereed
Format:
6pp.
