A visual tool for ontology alignment to enable geospatial interoperability

被引：32

作者：

Cruz, Isabel F. ^{[1
]}

Sunna, William ^{[1
]}

Makar, Nalin ^{[1
]}

Bathala, Sujan ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Comp Sci, Chicago, IL 60607 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF VISUAL LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING | 2007年 / 18卷 / 03期

关键词：

ontology alignment; information integration; geospatial data;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jvlc.2007.02.005

中图分类号：

TP31 [计算机软件];

学科分类号：

081202 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

In distributed geospatial applications with heterogeneous databases, an ontology-driven approach to data integration relies on the alignment of the concepts of a global ontology that describe the domain, with the concepts of the ontologies that describe the data in the distributed databases. Once the alignment between the global ontology and each distributed ontology is established, agreements that encode a variety of mappings between concepts are derived. In this way, users can potentially query hundreds of geospatial databases using a single query. Using our approach, querying can be easily extended to new data sources and, therefore, to new regions. In this paper, we describe the AgreementMaker, a tool that displays the ontologies, supports several mapping layers visually, presents automatically generated mappings, and finally produces the agreements. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：230 / 254

页数：25

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