Geospatial metadata extraction from product description document applying methods from ontology engineering. (1st October 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abugessaisa, Imad
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 5:Number 4(2010)
• Page Start: 321
• Page End: 332
• Publication Date: 2010-10-01
• Subjects: INSPIRE -- Swedish Land Survey -- geospatial metadata -- document annotation -- ontology engineering -- Sweden -- metadata extraction; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

Metadata creation is a bottleneck in European Union (EU) INSPIRE Directive. Firstly the paper presents results from a conformance test conducted at Swedish Land Survey. The results of the testing show a gap between the current statuses of metadata and INSPIRE demands. Secondly the paper introduces an ontology-engineering approach to support extraction of metadata from annotated text documents. This approach can be used for generating metadata in Ontology Web Language (OWL) format that can be reused in a Geography Markup Language (GML) documents instance. Catalogue service of the Swedish geoportal to INSPIRE can employ this approach to generate dataset-level metadata.