This paper presents a conceptual design for connecting ontological and geospatial knowledge bases so that the system can take advantage of the semantic power of ontologies and data storage/analysis/query power of geospatial systems. The design is based on common-place queries, such as “what is a canyon/route/road” or “where is the canyon/route/road X.”

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been the consolidator for many ideas regarding the evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW), including the promotion of the so-called “Semantic Layer Cake” model for the development of the semantic web. The semantic layer cake provides a framework to discuss a variety of approaches to an integrated view of the meta-data that will support a broad range of mac...

Intangible Cultural Heritage is of comparatively high value in culture, economy, science and tourism, which is at its peak of development and utilization. Intangible cultural heritage needs preservation, so the development and utilization of the digital storage of intangible cultural heritage are a subject of theoretical and practical values. Among the various complicated types of intangible cu...

Maintaining the vaccine cold chain is an essential part of a successful immunization programme, but in developed countries faulty procedures may occur more commonly than is generally believed. A survey was conducted in a health district in central Italy to assess the methods of vaccine transportation and storage. Of 52 primary vaccination offices inspected, 39 (76.5%) had a refrigerator for vac...

In the 1990 world that the TPC-D development effort was born into, decision support was a minor league game. The term “data warehouse” had not yet been coined, and many of the parallel technologies taking aim at decision support were still on the drawing board. Global competition had not yet forced corporations into serious self-examination, nor had it taught them to respect and cherish their d...

Why focus on education in a forum that is obviously research oriented? As professionals, we may consider ourselves to be predominantly (1) psychological scientists, creating basic and applied discipline knowledge, or (2) professional psychology practitioners, utilising discipline knowledge in applied settings to meet client needs. Nevertheless, wherever we stand on the science-practice continuu...

The Information Technology and Internet techniques are rapidly developing. Interaction between enterprises and customers has dramatically changed. It becomes critical that enterprises are able to perform rapid diagnosis and quickly respond to market change. How to apply business intelligence (BI), manage, and diffuse discovered knowledge efficiently and effectively has attracted much attention ...

We present the Listening Experience Database (LED), a structured knowledge base of accounts of listening to music in documented sources. LED aggregates scholarly and crowdsourced contributions and is heavily focused on data reuse. To that end, both the storage system and the governance model are natively implemented as Linked Data. Reuse of data from datasets such as the BNB and DBpedia is inte...

There is an increasing demand for individually tailored products with short delivery times. This demand can be satisfied with configurable products, which can be easily customized according to customer specifications. The designers of a configurable product must devise a plan that can be used repeatedly for realizing customer orders as working combinations of the available components. We use th...