The linguistic level: contribution for conceptual design, view integration, reuse and documentation
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue natural language for data bases
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
SCIE '97 International Summer School on Information Extraction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to an Emerging Information Technology
INTEROP '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems
Asessing Semnatic Similarities among Geospatial Feature Class Definitions
INTEROP '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems
An ontology-based knowledge management system for flow and water quality modeling
Advances in Engineering Software
A knowledge environment for the biodiversity and ecological sciences
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Ontology-Based Geospatial Data Query and Integration
GIScience '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Geographic Information Science
An architecture of semantic knowledge system for biosafety
FSKD'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery - Volume 2
A use-case approach to the validation of social modeling and simulation
SpringSim '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference
SpringSim '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference
Ontology-based agri-environmental planning for whole farm plans
ER'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Advances in conceptual modeling: applications and challenges
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Different geospatial information communities, public authorities as well as private institutions, recognize increasingly the World Wide Web as a medium to distribute their data. With the occurrence of national laws that push authorities to make environmental data accessible, Internet-based services have to be developed to enable the public to obtain information digitally. Dissemination of data is only one side of the coin. The other side is the use of such data. The use requires mechanisms to share data via networks. Lack of semantic interoperability has been identified as the main obstacle for data sharing. Research, however, must develop methods to overcome the problems of sharing data considering their semantics. Ontologies are considered to be one approach to support data sharing.This paper describes the use of ontologies via the Internet based on an example from field GIS supported environmental monitoring. The basic idea is that the members of different information communities get access to the meaning of data if they can approach the ontologies that have been developed by those who collected the data. This might be possible by applying the resource definition framework (RDF) and RDF/Schema. RDF can be used to define and structure terms and vocabulary used in a specific information community. The goal of the paper is to examine the role of ontologies based on the study of a particular application domain, namely stream surveying. The use of RDF/ Schema is described related to the example.