A taxonomy of geospatial services for global service discovery and interoperability

Authors:
Yuqi Bai;Liping Di;Yaxing Wei
Affiliations:
Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, 6301 Ivy Lane, Suite 620 Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA;Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, 6301 Ivy Lane, Suite 620 Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA;Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, 6301 Ivy Lane, Suite 620 Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA
Venue:
Computers & Geosciences
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Geospatial service taxonomies represent the knowledge about the characteristics of geospatial services from the enterprise, computational, information, engineering, infrastructure, or technology viewpoints. This paper presents a lightweight taxonomy of geospatial services with the aim of promoting the global sharing of and interoperability among geospatial service instances. This taxonomy focuses on the knowledge connected with service interoperability. As a hierarchical taxonomy, it consists of six layers: service category, service type, version, profile, binding and uniform resource name (URN), from the root down to the leaves. Each layer is composed of classification nodes, with each node identifying one classification concept. Each concept, with a concrete semantic meaning, can be used to classify service instances. The application of this classification scheme to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Component and Service registry is also introduced. The results of this study may lead to the further development of service taxonomy to thoroughly capture the knowledge about geospatial services. The lessons learned may be useful to others representing and manipulating geoscientific knowledge.