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SOIT: Spatial Ontologies Integration Tool and its Application to the Road Domain

Authors:
Wassim Jaziri
Sana Châabane
Faïez Gargouri

Keywords: Spatial ontologies; SOIT; Integration tool; Geographic Information systems; Road domain

Abstract:
Designed as semantic structures to support the sharing and reuse of geographic data, spatial ontologies have recently gained attention within the geo-information community. Geographic ontologies are designed to provide a common understanding of the structure of geographic models, and to support the development of geographic information systems that are conceptually complex. This paper proposes an approach for merging spatial ontologies based on three complementary modules: matching, mapping and merging. A Spatial Ontologies Integration Tool (SOIT) is also developed and applied to the road domain.

Pages: 7 to 12

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4510

ISBN: 978-1-61208-104-5

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010