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GeoS 2011: GeoSpatial Semantics pp 16–33Cite as

Improving Geodatabase Semantic Querying Exploiting Ontologies

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Geospatial semantic querying to geographical databases has been recognized as an hot topic in GIS research. Most approaches propose to adopt an ontology as a knowledge representation structure on top of the database, representing the concepts the user can query. These concepts are typically directly mapped to database tables. In this paper we propose a methodology where the ontology is further exploited mapping axioms to spatial SQL queries. The main advantage of this approach is that semantic-rich geospatial queries can be abstractly represented in the ontology and automatically translated into spatial SQL queries.

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  1. IIT, CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Miriam Baglioni

  2. KDDLab, ISTI, CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Maria Vittoria Masserotti & Chiara Renso

  3. IES, JRC, European Commission, Ispra, Italy

    Laura Spinsanti

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  1. Naval Academy Research Institute, 29240, Brest Cedex 9, France

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  2. Centro de Investigacion en Computacion, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, 07738, Mexico City, Mexico

    Sergei Levashkin

  3. School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Michela Bertolotto

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Baglioni, M., Masserotti, M.V., Renso, C., Spinsanti, L. (2011). Improving Geodatabase Semantic Querying Exploiting Ontologies. In: Claramunt, C., Levashkin, S., Bertolotto, M. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20630-6_2

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