Semantics, ontologies and eScience for the geosciences

Authors:
Femke Reitsma;John Laxton;Stuart Ballard;Werner Kuhn;Alia Abdelmoty
Affiliations:
School of Geosciences, Edinburgh University, UK;British Geological Survey, UK;The National Institute for Environmental eScience, UK;Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, UK;Cardiff School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK
Venue:
Computers & Geosciences
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Semantics, ontologies and eScience are key areas of research that aim to deal with the growing volume, number of sources and heterogeneity of geoscience data, information and knowledge. Following a workshop held at the eScience Institute in Edinburgh on the 7-9th of March 2008, this paper discusses some of the significant research topics and challenges for enhancing geospatial computing using semantic and grid technologies.