An Instance-based Approach for Matching Export Schemas of Geographical Database Web Services

This paper describes a semantic approach for matching export schemas of geographical database Web services, based on the use of a small set of typical instances. The paper also contains an extensive experiment, in the context of two gazetteers, Geonames and the ADL gazetteer, to illustrate the approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: GEOINFO
• Authors: Daniela F. Brauner, Chantal Intrator, João Carlos Freitas, Marco A. Casanova
• Keywords: Geographical Database Web, GEOINFO 2007, Information Technology, Semantic Approach, Typical Instances