Abstract
The creation of geological maps and the provision of geological information has a long history at the Geological Survey of Austria (GBA). Geological maps enable the visualization of geoscientific topics of interest to the public and the authorities. As early as the middle of the nineteenth century the Geological Survey of Austria started producing geological maps. From these first individual sketch sheets and the first data sets to digital information provided via web services, information technology now leads us into the world of controlled vocabularies, such as the Thesaurus of the GBA. In the following, the path from individual geological manuscripts via the digitization process to the data administration for apps and semantic web capabilities at the GBA will be described.
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INSPIRE—Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe.
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PoolParty—a thesaurus management system distributed by the Semantic Web Company GmbH (SWC).
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W3C®—World Wide Web Consortium: https://www.w3.org/.
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SPARQL—SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (Prud’hommeaux and Seaborne 2008).
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Hörfarter, C., Reischer, J., Schiegl, M. (2019). From Maps to Apps—Entering Another Technological Dimension Within the Geological Survey of Austria. In: Döllner, J., Jobst, M., Schmitz, P. (eds) Service-Oriented Mapping. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72434-8_17
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