Fred Fonseca and
Max Egenhofer 7th ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Kansas City, MO,
C. Bauzer Medeiros (ed.), pp. 14-19, November 1999.
Abstract
This paper introduces a geographic information system architecture
based on ontologies. Ontology plays a central role in the
definition of all aspects and components of an information system
in the so-called ontology-driven information systems. The system
presented here uses a container of interoperable geographic
objects. The objects are extracted from multiple independent data
sources and are derived from a strongly typed mapping of classes
from multiple ontologies. This approach provides a great level of
interoperability and allows partial integration of information when
completeness is impossible.
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Fred Fonseca and
Max Egenhofer