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Making the Web of Data Available Via Web Feature Services

Authors : Jim Jones, Werner Kuhn, Carsten Keßler, Simon Scheider

Published in: Connecting a Digital Europe Through Location and Place

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Interoperability is the main challenge on the way to efficiently find and access spatial data on the web. Significant contributions regarding interoperability have been made by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), where web service standards to publish and download spatial data have been established. The OGCs GeoSPARQL specification targets spatial data on the Web as Linked Open Data (LOD) by providing a comprehensive vocabulary for annotation and querying. While OGC web service standards are widely implemented in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and offer a seamless service infrastructure, the LOD approach offers structured techniques to interlink and semantically describe spatial information. It is currently not possible to use LOD as a data source for OGC web services. In this chapter we make a suggestion for technically linking OGC web services and LOD as a data source, and we explore and discuss its benefits. We describe and test an adapter that enables access to geographic LOD datasets from within OGC Web Feature Service (WFS), enabling most current GIS to access the Web of Data. We discuss performance tests by comparing the proposed adapter to a reference WFS implementation.

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Metadata
Title
Making the Web of Data Available Via Web Feature Services
Authors
Jim Jones
Werner Kuhn
Carsten Keßler
Simon Scheider
Copyright Year
2014
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03611-3_20

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