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To achieve accurate results when matching geographic ontologies, it is important to have clear what has to be compared, and just then start comparing them. In this paper we define a geographic ontology reference model and, from it, the set of heterogeneities that may occur when comparing two geographic ontologies is elaborated, at both the concept and instance-level. Based on the heterogeneities set we then present the iG-Match, which consists in a software architecture that implements a methodology to perform geographic ontology matching, using some metrics specially developed for the geographic domain.
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Hess, G.N., Iochpe, C., Castano, S. (2007). Geographic Ontology Matching with iG-Match . In: Papadias, D., Zhang, D., Kollios, G. (eds) Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases. SSTD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73540-3_11
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