Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a key enabler to support integration of building data within the buildings life cycle (BLC) and an important aspect wide range use cases, related intelligent automation, navigation, energy efficiency, sustainability so forth. Open faces several challenges standardization, interdependency, access, security. In addition these technical challenges, there rem...

Geospatial extensions of SPARQL, like GeoSPARQL and stSPARQL, have been defined since 2007, while several geospatial RDF stores implemented a substantial part these extensions, other limited their support mostly on point geometry features. A parallel process with the above was that frameworks evolved in an interesting way by presenting more mature set features, such as including latest indexing...

Due to the exponential growth of the Internet of Things and use of Social Media Platforms, observers have an unprecedented level of detailed information available on the behavior of communities. However, due to the highly heterogeneous nature and the immense volume of the data, a composite view is difficult to generate. Such a composite view would be exceptionally useful in the realms of inside...

Many different open information sources currently exist for protecting the environment in Europe, mainly focused on Natura 2000 network, and areas where environmental protection and activities like tourism need to be balanced. Managing these data and integrating them for supporting decision makers and for novel uses is a challenging task. The SmartOpenData project (2013-1015) aims to define mec...

Data about cities is today available from a multitude of sources at high volumes and rates; a multi-disciplinary and cross-sectorial data processing and analysis has become more and more pervasive to better understand urban evolution. Statistical datasets, together with other (big) data related to cities, can be employed to semantically explore and characterize the urban space. In this paper, w...

The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the involved disciplines ranging from the natural sciences to the social sciences introduces new challenges in terms of interoperability. Moreover, the inherent spatial and temporal information components also require distinct semantic approaches. For these reasons, geosp...