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Spatial Cyberinfrastructure: Building New Pathways for Geospatial Semantics on Existing Infrastructures

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Spatial data infrastructures (SDI), with technological and conceptual roots stretching back multiple decades, are moving into a new era through the development of spatial cyberinfrastructures (spatial CI) that account for geospatial semantics. While the technology and concepts share many similarities, spatial cyberinfrastructures distinctly focus on the provision of information to support scientific knowledge sharing. These cyberinfrastructures are increasingly connected into an ecology of scientific knowledge sharing based on the formalization of geospatial semantics and support for shared knowledge and collective intelligence. We trace the development of cyberinfrastructures from spatial data infrastructures as the potential framework for geospatial semantical interoperability. The chapter also points to substantial semantic research challenges and the potential of spatial cyberinfrastructures.

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Harvey, F., Raskin, R.G. (2011). Spatial Cyberinfrastructure: Building New Pathways for Geospatial Semantics on Existing Infrastructures. In: Ashish, N., Sheth, A. (eds) Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web. Semantic Web and Beyond, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9446-2_4

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