Automatic query expansion via lexical-semantic relationships
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Toward the semantic geospatial web
Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
Resource Discovery in a European Spatial Data Infrastructure
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Rapid prototyping of semantic mash-ups through semantic web pipes
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Faceted Lightweight Ontologies
Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications
From web directories to ontologies: natural language processing challenges
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
GeoLinked data and INSPIRE through an application case
Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
DEXA'10 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Database and expert systems applications: Part I
Lightweight parsing of classifications into lightweight ontologies
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Save up to 99% of your time in mapping validation
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: Part II
A facet-based methodology for geo-spatial modeling
GeoS'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on GeoSpatial semantics
A faceted ontology for a semantic geo-catalogue
ESWC'11 Proceedings of the 8th extended semantic web conference on The semanic web: research and applications - Volume Part II
GeoWordNet: a resource for geo-spatial applications
ESWC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications - Volume Part I
Geospatial semantic web: architecture of ontologies
GeoS'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on GeoSpatial Semantics
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The enhancement of the search capabilities of geo-spatial tools occupies one of the highest positions in the agenda of the INSPIRE initiative. This can be done by equipping applications with tools able to understand user terminology. However, this is in contrast with current approaches, which tend to fix in advance the terminology with a consequent rigidity in the way users interact with the system. In this paper we present the work we have done with the Semantic Geo-Catalogue (SGC) project in providing a semantic extension to the geo-catalogue of the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) in Italy. This was done through the adoption of a semantic matching tool and a faceted ontology that codifies knowledge about the geography of the PAT and that was created by reorganizing data extracted from the local geographical dataset. Thanks to the semantic extension, queries to the geo-catalogue are expanded with domain specific terms taken from the ontology thus obtaining a higher number of relevant documents in output. We also complied with the Open Government Data (OGD) initiative by publishing in RDF and by linking to relevant dictionaries some useful data taken from the local repository.