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This paper gives an introduction to concepts for a better expert knowledge extraction for geodata harmonisation. Geodata harmonisation involves overcoming heterogeneities on the syntactic, schematic and se-mantic levels, but user interaction is mostly required for the semantic interoperability level. Consequently, the goal is to provide tools to geo-domain experts which allow them to use their knowledge to describe the conceptual schemas of their domain as well as alignments to other domain's conceptual schemas in a sufficiently expressive way without be-coming experts in ontology engineering. We describe an approach for this that includes both visual analysis on the basis of geospatial instances and specific interaction guidance processes. Based on this approach, a prototypical implementation of a tool called the HUMBOLDT Alignment Editor (HALE) is introduced.
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Reitz, T., Kuijper, A. (2009). Applying Instance Visualisation and Conceptual Schema Mapping for Geodata Harmonisation. In: Sester, M., Bernard, L., Paelke, V. (eds) Advances in GIScience. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00318-9_9
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