TOWARD SEMANTIC WEB INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SPATIAL FEATURES' INFORMATION

Semantic web technologies as the foundation for the information infrastructure

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 technolo...

WonderWeb: Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web

An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals

One important task of semantic web portals is to offer both end users and applications a seamless access to knowledge contained in heterogeneous data sources in specific user communities. As such it is important to ensure that i) high quality metadata are extracted from heterogeneous sources in an automated manner and ii) comprehensive querying facilities are provided thus enabling knowledge to...

Semantic web infrastructure for fungal enzyme biotechnologists

The FungalWeb Ontology aims to support the data integration needs of enzyme biotechnology from inception to product roll. Serving as a knowledgebase for decision support, the conceptualization seeks to link fungal species with enzymes, enzyme substrates, enzyme classifications, enzyme modifications, enzyme related intellectual property, enzyme retail and applications. The ontology, developed in...

Semantic Web Powered Portal Infrastructure

The World Wide Web (WWW, or the Web for short), has made a huge amount of information electronically available, being an impressive success story in terms of both available information and the growth rate of human users. The Web has evolved from an in-house solution for around 1000 users in 1990 to more than 1 billion users and more than 3 billion pages nowadays, not only world-wide but also de...