Geospatial Semantic Web

Abstract

The Semantic Web is a highly interdisciplinary research field that aims at fostering the publication, retrieval, reuse, and integration of data in a distributed, web‐scale environment in which multithematic and multiperspective information has to be handled by humans and machines alike. This raises many interesting challenges that attract researchers from disciplines such as computer science, cognitive science, geographic information science, bioinformatics, digital humanities, and the life sciences. Over the years this led to a multitude of subcommunities that drive today's Semantic Web research. As one of these communities, the Geospatial Semantic Web is concerned with the semantics of geospatial data, next‐generation cyberinfrastructures, formal vocabularies for the geodomain, and geographic information retrieval, as well as new methods that foster semantic interoperability without restricting heterogeneity.