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Abstract
Semantic GIS, Ontologies, and Organizing Knowledge
Track: New Technology and Technology Integration
Author(s): Tom Van Buren
Drawing on the World Wide Web Consortium standards and semantic Web activities where "information is given well-defined meaning and better enables computers and people to work in cooperation," the City of Seattle's Cedar River Municipal Watershed is developing a "semantic GIS" that will lead the City's GIS to its full potential. Using Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Resource Descriptor Framework (RDF) technologies and tools developed by the Apache Software Foundation and Esri, the City's providing an information service of watershed content for all users--like a good library--multivariate, multitemporal, and high resolution.
Tom Van Buren
City of Seattle
Watershed Management Divsion
19901 Cedar Falls Rd
North Bend , WA 98045-9861
USA
Phone: 206 386 4212
Fax: 206 615 1923
E-mail: vanburt@ci.seattle.wa.us