GEOPROFILE - UML Profile for Conceptual Modeling of Geographic Databases

In this paper, we present a declarative domain-specific language (DSL) for the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS applications manage information with a spatial component, usually in the form of points, lines, polygons, or variants of these basic data types, in domains where the spatial information plays a central role. They provide the user with different functionalities on different application domains, but they are usually developed according to a common architecture and using a common set of technologies. Hence, they share a significant number of elements that make some aspects of their development quite repetitive. Our DSL allows developers to specify the entities, geographic layers, and maps of the applications using a declarative language. Then, the specification is transformed into a working GIS application. We present the language, its implementation, and a case study on two sample projects that allowed us to evaluate the resulting software, paying special attention to the savings in the development effort.

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Representación del Conocimiento de la Información Geográfica siguiendo un Enfoque basado en Ontologías

Tolaba¹,

Caliusco²,

Galli

2014

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Resumen: Actualmente el empleo de la información geográfica es inherente a muchos dominios de aplicación en diversas disciplinas. Dado el potencial de la información geográfica, ésta constituye una herramienta relevante para facilitar la toma de decisiones y la gestión de recursos. Existen estándares para la representación a través de modelos conceptuales de la información geográfica. Sin embargo, éstos presentan limitaciones tanto para incorporar expresividad semántica, ya que sólo consideran los aspectos técnicos; como para modelar adecuadamente aplicaciones que utilizan información geográfica, ya que no consideran todos los conceptos involucrados en el dominio geoespacial, sus características y relaciones. En este trabajo se presenta una meta-ontología que permite crear modelos semánticos enriquecidos capaces de representar y realizar inferencias sobre el conocimiento de la información geográfica.Palabras-clave: Información Geográfica; Interoperabilidad; Meta-ontología; Conceptualización. A Knowledge Representation of Geographic Information using an Ontologies-based ApproachAbstract: Nowadays, the use of Geographic Information is inherent in many application domains in various disciplines. Given the potential of geographic information, it is an important tool to facilitate decision making and resource management. There are different standards for representation through conceptual models of geographic information. However, these have limitation for both incorporate semantic expressiveness, since only considered the technical aspect, to properly model applications that use geographic information, because they do not consider all the concepts involved in the geospatial domain, their characteristics and relationships. This paper presents a meta-ontology that creates rich semantic models able to represent and make inferences about the knowledge of geographic information.

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GEOPROFILE - UML Profile for Conceptual Modeling of Geographic Databases

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Representación del Conocimiento de la Información Geográfica siguiendo un Enfoque basado en Ontologías

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