2012
Larizgoitia, Iker; Fonollosa, Arturo Beltrán; Toma, Ioan; Maué, Patrick
Publication and Discovery of Semantically Annotated Geospatial Web Services Proceedings Article
In: EuroInfo 2012: Proceedings of the 26th international conference on informatics for environmental protection, sustainable development and risk management: Part 1: Core Application Areas, pp. 185–192, Shaker, Dessau, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-8440-1248-4.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Geospatial services, semantic annotations, web services
@inproceedings{Larizgoitia2012,
title = {Publication and Discovery of Semantically Annotated Geospatial Web Services},
author = { Iker Larizgoitia and Arturo Beltrán Fonollosa and Ioan Toma and Patrick Maué},
isbn = {978-3-8440-1248-4},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
booktitle = {EuroInfo 2012: Proceedings of the 26th international conference on informatics for environmental protection, sustainable development and risk management: Part 1: Core Application Areas},
pages = {185--192},
publisher = {Shaker},
address = {Dessau},
abstract = {Environmental information and services have become a crucial asset in the creation of decission support systems. Unfortunately, this information and services are not usually exposed in an interoperable and standard way, limiting their reusability and impact in the community. Publishing and discovering geospatial information and services on the Web is therefore an important challenge in order to create a breeding ground for collaboration and more sophisticated environmental platforms. Based on common standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as the starting point to ensure interoperability, we propose a discovery mechanism based on semantic annotations. OGC service descriptions are annotated with SAWSDL and linked to concepts in domain ontologies, following a common semantic service model. We seamlessly integrate the semantics in the standard OGC discovery infrastructure, extend-ing the CSW service catalogues with semantic publication and discovery. Semantics queries can be created based on formal languages like WSML, significantly improving the precission of discovery. In this paper we present our ap-proach, which provides a semantic infrastructure for publication and discovery of environmentally enabled web ser-vices.},
keywords = {Geospatial services, semantic annotations, web services},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Environmental information and services have become a crucial asset in the creation of decission support systems. Unfortunately, this information and services are not usually exposed in an interoperable and standard way, limiting their reusability and impact in the community. Publishing and discovering geospatial information and services on the Web is therefore an important challenge in order to create a breeding ground for collaboration and more sophisticated environmental platforms. Based on common standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as the starting point to ensure interoperability, we propose a discovery mechanism based on semantic annotations. OGC service descriptions are annotated with SAWSDL and linked to concepts in domain ontologies, following a common semantic service model. We seamlessly integrate the semantics in the standard OGC discovery infrastructure, extend-ing the CSW service catalogues with semantic publication and discovery. Semantics queries can be created based on formal languages like WSML, significantly improving the precission of discovery. In this paper we present our ap-proach, which provides a semantic infrastructure for publication and discovery of environmentally enabled web ser-vices.
Michels, Henry; Roth, Marcell; Fonollosa-Beltrán, Arturo
Semantic DESCaaS - Extending the Description as a Service Concept to Enable Semantic Annotations Proceedings Article
In: Gensel, Jêrome; Josselin, Didier; Vandenbroucke, Danny (Ed.): Bridging the Geographic Information Sciences International AGILE2012 Conference Avignon France april 24- 27, 2012, pp. 47–51, 2012, ISBN: 978-90-816960-0-5.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: interoperability, semantic annotations, web services
@inproceedings{Michels2012,
title = {Semantic DESCaaS - Extending the Description as a Service Concept to Enable Semantic Annotations},
author = { Henry Michels and Marcell Roth and Arturo Fonollosa-Beltrán},
editor = {Jêrome Gensel and Didier Josselin and Danny Vandenbroucke},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/159873},
isbn = {978-90-816960-0-5},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
booktitle = {Bridging the Geographic Information Sciences International AGILE2012 Conference Avignon France april 24- 27, 2012},
pages = {47--51},
abstract = {Semantic interoperability covers the con?ict-free and meaningful exchange of resources by improving the mutual understanding of participants in a communication process. Especially, the communication between humans via machines is fraught with misunderstand- ings including machine-machine communication processes. The focus is on an improved support of the human participants by enabling intelligent and independent behaviour of the machines. The realization of semantic interoperability inheres two main tasks in practice. On the one hand, there is a substantial need of unambiguous vocabularies corresponding to the purpose of a communication process. On the other hand, the suitable vocabularies have to be used by all participants. In this paper, we concentrate on the second issue. We present a well-tried strategy and recent technical solutions enabling the annotation of Web services with appropriate knowledge representations. We will draw the current limits of this approach with respect to certain kinds of resources and come up with a conceptual and partly technical solution to semantically enhance any type of resource.},
keywords = {interoperability, semantic annotations, web services},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Semantic interoperability covers the con?ict-free and meaningful exchange of resources by improving the mutual understanding of participants in a communication process. Especially, the communication between humans via machines is fraught with misunderstand- ings including machine-machine communication processes. The focus is on an improved support of the human participants by enabling intelligent and independent behaviour of the machines. The realization of semantic interoperability inheres two main tasks in practice. On the one hand, there is a substantial need of unambiguous vocabularies corresponding to the purpose of a communication process. On the other hand, the suitable vocabularies have to be used by all participants. In this paper, we concentrate on the second issue. We present a well-tried strategy and recent technical solutions enabling the annotation of Web services with appropriate knowledge representations. We will draw the current limits of this approach with respect to certain kinds of resources and come up with a conceptual and partly technical solution to semantically enhance any type of resource.