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Geographical Service: a compass for the Web of Data

Geographical Service: a compass for the Web of Data
Geographical Service: a compass for the Web of Data
This paper describes a Linked Data service that supports the navigation and retrieval of geographical entities for the UK territory. Geographical entities, in the extent of this paper, are linked data resources that describe objects that have a geographical extension. The service presented in this paper allows the querying of resources that contain or are contained by a given entity URI. The recent publication of UK Public Sector Information (PSI) data sets has brought to the attention of the community the redundant presence of location based context. At the same time it stresses the inadequacy of current Linked Data services for exploiting the semantics of such contextual dimensions for easing entity retrieval and browsing. We present an approach for a geography based service that helps in querying qualitative spatial relations for the UK geography (proper containment so far). We also provide an exploitation scenario based on a backlinking service and PSI Open Linked Data, published within the EnAKTing project.
linked data, geographical services
Correndo, Gianluca
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Salvadores, Manuel
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Yang, Yang
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Gibbins, Nicholas
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Correndo, Gianluca
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Yang, Yang
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Gibbins, Nicholas
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Correndo, Gianluca, Salvadores, Manuel, Yang, Yang, Gibbins, Nicholas and Shadbolt, Nigel (2010) Geographical Service: a compass for the Web of Data. Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010), , Raleigh, United States.

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Abstract

This paper describes a Linked Data service that supports the navigation and retrieval of geographical entities for the UK territory. Geographical entities, in the extent of this paper, are linked data resources that describe objects that have a geographical extension. The service presented in this paper allows the querying of resources that contain or are contained by a given entity URI. The recent publication of UK Public Sector Information (PSI) data sets has brought to the attention of the community the redundant presence of location based context. At the same time it stresses the inadequacy of current Linked Data services for exploiting the semantics of such contextual dimensions for easing entity retrieval and browsing. We present an approach for a geography based service that helps in querying qualitative spatial relations for the UK geography (proper containment so far). We also provide an exploitation scenario based on a backlinking service and PSI Open Linked Data, published within the EnAKTing project.

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Published date: 27 April 2010
Additional Information: Event Dates: 27 April 2010
Venue - Dates: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010), , Raleigh, United States, 2010-04-27
Keywords: linked data, geographical services
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 268764
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268764
PURE UUID: fecaa889-9a06-4475-b477-905cd9dd7d8e
ORCID for Gianluca Correndo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3335-5759
ORCID for Nicholas Gibbins: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-9956

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Date deposited: 19 Mar 2010 17:08
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:59

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Author: Gianluca Correndo ORCID iD
Author: Manuel Salvadores
Author: Yang Yang
Author: Nicholas Gibbins ORCID iD
Author: Nigel Shadbolt

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