Semantic web technologies to automate searching for geospatial data

This poster paper applies the vision of the Semantic Web to e-government portals that provide searching for geospatial data. Current searching methods yield too many results and also possibly miss the needed data. We propose ontologies and Semantic Web ...

As the amount of Linked Open Data on the web increases, so does the amount of data with an inherent spatial context. Without spatial reasoning, however, the value of this spatial context is limited. Over the past decade there have been several ...

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) contains two separate but interconnected knowledge structures, the Semantic Network (upper level) and the Metathesaurus (lower level). In this paper, we have attempted to work out better how the use of such a ...