A semantic-based architecture for supporting geographic e-services

  • Authors:
  • Agustina Buccella;Alejandra Cechich

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquen, Argentina;Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquen, Argentina

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Nowadays, information about the Earth is growing and expanding all over the world affecting different public and private entities, which are compelled to develop new mechanisms to store and manage the huge amount of information generated every day. Making this information available to ordinary citizens is not trivial. Interoperability and citizen services are the two key words here. On one hand, interoperability refers to increasing level of cooperation between information sources on national, regional and local levels; and on the other hand, citizen services refers to providing a series of services that improve the relation between citizens and the public state, based on the stored geographic information. Thus, in this paper, we propose a novel architectural solution based on an ontology-driven system (GeoMergeP), which describes the semantic integration of geographic sources as a basis of a web service structure. We illustrate the proposal with a motivating case study in the area of hydrological resources.