From models to data: A prototype Query Translator for the cadastral domain

Abstract. The development and maintenance of the infrastructure, facilities, logistics and other assets of the Port of Rotterdam requires a broad spectrum of heterogeneous information. This information concerns features, which are spatially distributed above ground, underground, in the air and in the water. The data are managed in a variety of data models with varying levels of dimensionality, granularity, accuracy and upto-dateness. Additionally increasing number of 3D design models is becoming available. This complexity of tasks and diversity of information challenges the Port authority to look for more advanced 3D solutions. This paper presents research in progress related to developing a 3D SII in support of information and process management within the Port of Rotterdam.

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“…Numerous semantic mappings are reported in the literature [14,15]. This new technology also brings new challenges.…”

Section: D Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

3D spatial information infrastructure: The case of Port Rotterdam

Zlatanova

Beetz

2012

Usage, Usability, and Utility of 3D City Models – European COST Action TU0801

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“…Van Engers 2004, Wilson and of the ADDWijzer project. On a technological level the query language for map data described in (Hess and De Vries 2004) is even closer to the legal question-answering paradigm. Figure 2 shows a screenshot of the first prototype of the Legal Atlas, which was not based on XML.…”

Section: The Legal Atlasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This has consequences for representation and storage of this data (cf. Hess and De Vries 2004), that merits separate research into the relation between geospatial data and the law. Work in this area is fairly rare.…”

Section: Geospatial Information and The Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Separating law from Geography in GIS-based eGovernment services

et al. 2007

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Abstract. The Leibniz Center for Law is involved in the project Digitale Uitwisseling Ruimtelijke Plannen [DURP (http://www.vrom.nl/durp); digital exchange of spatial plans] which develops a XML-based digital exchange format for spatial regulations. Involvement in the DURP project offers new possibilities to study a legal area that hasnÕt yet been studied to the extent it deserves in the field of Computer Science & Law. We studied and criticised the work of the DURP project and the Dutch Ministry of internal affairs on metadata for regulatory documents, and made an inventory of issues related to legal knowledge representation that it felt were not sufficiently covered by current initiatives in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) field. This inventory was an input to the DURP standardisation effort. In a second phase of the project we extended the META Lex XML schema (cf. Boer et al. 2002;Boer et al. 2003) for 'regularÕ legal sources that we developed in the past for geospatial regulatory information, in order to support exchange of spatial regulations, including the associated geospatial information in the form of maps. We developed a prototype application and demonstrated how the spatial planning information in GML can be combined with XML with only minimal changes, using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). This paper describes our experiences.

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“…The Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) Interest Group from W3C has published a collection of a few dozen use cases of semantic technologies 1 , ranging from eGovernment to eCommerce, and from improved search to data-integration, covering sectors as diverse as the automotive industry, the financial sector, the IT industry, the publishing world and others. (Hess & de Vries, 2006). Closely related work, but aimed at the integration and chaining of geographic services as opposed to geographic datasets is reported in (Lemmens et al, 2006).…”

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Semantic Web Technologies As The Foundation For The Information Infrastructure

Harmelen¹

2008

Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures

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The Semantic Web is arising over the pas few years as a realistic option for a world wide Information Infrastructure, with its promises of semantic interoperability and serendipitous reuse.In this paper we will analyse the essential ingredients of semantic technologies, what makes them suitable as the foundation for the Information Infrastructure, and what the alternatives to semantic technologies would be as foundations for the Information Infrastructure. We will make a survey of the most important achievements on semantic technologies in the past few years, and point to the most important challenges that remain to be solved. Historical trend towards increasing demands on interoperabilityWhen Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, was asked for his estimate of how many computers would be needed worldwide, his reply is widely claimed to have been: 'about five' 2 1 . Of course, this presumed reply was given in 1943, but it shows the enormous shift in perspective that has taken place since the very early days of computing. Right until the late 1970's, the dominant perspective on computing was that of mainframe computing: large machines that provided centralised means of computing and data storage. In such a centralised perspective, interoperability is not the main concern: data are locked up in a centralised location, movement of data is rare, and if data is to be integrated, a special purpose ad hoc transformation procedure is applied to transform the data into the required format.The first revolution that was a major upset to the centralised perspective was the advent of the PC in the 1980's (ironically enough, also dominated by IBM). Suddenly, there were millions of small computing devices, each of which was capable of storing its own data, without recourse to centralised data storage. In this context, interoperability of data was becoming a problem: how to combine the data set stored in (or generated on) one PC with those of another PC, where another user in a different organisation, would be generating their own data? However, the low degree of connectivity between the different PCs still kept the interoperability problem at bay. It was only the second revolution that really caused the data interoperability problem to bite, namely the advent of the Internet (also arising in the 1980's), culminating in the rapid growth of the Web in the 1990's. The Internet has solved most wide-area networking problems with its nearly universally supported TCP/IP Internet Protocol and its DNS (Domain Name System) host-addressing scheme.Suddenly, it became possible to exchange information from any computer to any other computer, and between any two users on the planet. In such a setting, special purpose and ad hoc 1 although this quote is widely questioned now , it makes the point 3 transformation procedures to import data are no longer a feasible alternative, and more principled mechanisms to ensure interoperability are required. Interoperability at different abstraction layersThe pro...

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From models to data: A prototype Query Translator for the cadastral domain

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3D spatial information infrastructure: The case of Port Rotterdam

3D spatial information infrastructure: The case of Port Rotterdam

Separating law from Geography in GIS-based eGovernment services

Semantic Web Technologies As The Foundation For The Information Infrastructure

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