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Bridging the Geographic Information Sciences pp 119–139Cite as

Interlinking Geospatial Information in the Web of Data

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There is an increasing presence of geospatial datasets in the Linked Open Data cloud. However, these datasets are published like data silos and the value of the Web of Data depends, among other properties, on the amount and quality of links between data sources. One of the most overlooked problems to date in the linking process is to ensure that two different resources (identified with URIs) are actually referring to the same physical thing, that is, the co-reference problem. In this paper we present a co-reference resolution approach that is composed of a set of heuristics for interlinking geospatial Linked Data. We have used these heuristics to connect resources from GeoLinkedData.es and DBpedia.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by the R&D project España Virtual (CENIT2008-1030), funded by Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica and CDTI under the R&D programme Ingenio 2010.

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  1. Ontology Engineering Group, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez, Víctor Saquicela & Oscar Corcho

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Vilches-Blázquez, L.M., Saquicela, V., Corcho, O. (2012). Interlinking Geospatial Information in the Web of Data. In: Gensel, J., Josselin, D., Vandenbroucke, D. (eds) Bridging the Geographic Information Sciences. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29063-3_7

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