Sebastian H?, Center for Computing Technologies (TZI), University of Bremen
Rainer Spittel, Center for Computing Technologies (TZI), University of Bremen
Ubbo Visser, Center for Computing Technologies (TZI), University of Bremen
This article describes the application GeoShare, which participated in the Semantic Web Challenge 2003. As their motivating example, the authors describe a tourist who is planning a bike trip and looking for nice locations for fishing and bathing. Therefore, he needs information regarding water quality-that is, information that has not only a thematic but also a spatial and temporal context. The authors provide a detailed look at the technologies GeoShare uses, including ontologies for describing vocabularies and catalogs as well as semantics-related keyword search. They also present their group's spatial reasoner and its application in a spatial data infrastructure consisting of a Web Catalog Service, distributed Web Map Services, and a Generic Web Map Client.
Index Terms:
intelligent Web Services, Semantic Web, Internet reasoning services, data and knowledge visualization
Citation:
Sebastian H?, Rainer Spittel, Ubbo Visser, Thomas J. Vögele, "Ontology-Based Search for Interactive Digital Maps," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 80-86, May/June 2004, doi:10.1109/MIS.2004.15