Abstract
Nowadays there exists an increasing interest on the use of the information collected by cities coming from different resources as data with dynamic nature like the one provided by sensor networks, as static data associated to the socio-technical system that the city performs. As well as the Semantic Sensor Web allows the standardization of data, it is essential to give an appropriate dealing to geo-demographic data. In this paper, an approach to the semantization of the geo-demographic information is presented, with the aim of achieving interoperability within other systems of the geospatial cyberinfrastructure. Furthermore, fundamental aspects of the creation of ontologies by starting from socio-demographical systems are discussed and the process is illustrated with a case study.
Partially supported by TIN2009-09492 project (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation), cofinanced with FEDER founds, and Proyecto de excelencia TIC-6064 Conceptos emergentes en sistemas complejos. Aplicaciones en entornos urbanos y en complejidad cultural financed by Junta de Andalucía.
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Borrego-Díaz, J., Chávez-González, A.M., Martín-Pérez, M.A., Zamora-Aguilera, J.A. (2012). Semantic Geodemography and Urban Interoperability. In: Dodero, J.M., Palomo-Duarte, M., Karampiperis, P. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 343. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35233-1_1
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