Conciliating perspectives from mapping agencies and web of data on successful European SDIs : toward a European Geographic Knowledge Graph

Bucher, Bénédicte (author), Tiainen, Esa (author), Brasch, Thomas Ellett von (author), Janssen, Paul (author), Kotzinos, Dimitris (author), Čeh, Marjan (author), Rijsdijk, Martijn (author), Folmer, Erwin (author), Van Damme, Marie-Dominique (author), Zhral, Mehdi (author)

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) are a key asset for Europe. This paper concentrates on unsolved issues in SDIs in Europe related to the management of semantic heterogeneities. It studies contributions and competences from two communities in this field: cartographers, authoritative data providers, and geographic information scientists on the one hand, and computer scientists working on the Web of Data on the other. During several workshops organized by the EuroSDR and Eurogeographics organizations, the authors analyzed their complementarity and discovered reasons for the difficult collaboration between these communities. They have different and sometimes conflicting perspectives on what successful SDIs should look like, as well as on priorities. We developed a proposal to integrate both perspectives, which is centered on the elaboration of an open European Geographical Knowledge Graph. Its structure reuses results from the literature on geographical information ontologies. It is associated with a multifaceted roadmap addressing interrelated aspects of SDIs.

• Language: English
• Keywords: SDI, open data, metadata, ontologies, linked data, provenance, mediation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 23 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 9, iss. 2, art. 62
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-114842
• UDC: 528
• ISSN on article: 2220-9964
• DOI: 10.3390/ijgi9020062
• COBISS.SI-ID: 9043041
• Publication date in RUL: 19.03.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: ISPRS international journal of geo-information
• Shortened title: ISPRS int. j. geo-inf.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2220-9964
• COBISS.SI-ID: 18678550

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.02.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: PPI, odprtodostopni podatki, metapodatki, ontologije, poreklo, posredovanje

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: EuroSDR

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 690462
• Name: European Research Area for Climate Services
• Acronym: ERA4CS