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Environmental service discovery based on semantically annotated OGC service descriptions
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2013, Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) Technical Track. Coimbra, Portugal, March 2013Environmental information is a valuable resource for a wide range
of applications and decision support systems in different domains.
This is reflected in different initiatives around the world, such as
the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which focuses on
defining strategies and standards for collecting, defining and
sharing environmental data. One of the key challenges in order to
boost the collaboration in the community is to find interoperable
ways to share this information and powerful mechanisms to
discover it. Semantic technologies can provide the necessary
capabilities to achieve this. In this paper, we present a solution for
environmental service discovery based on semantic annotations.
As we target the environmental community, we build our solution
on existing OGC standards for service discovery. Our approach is
integrated inside the ENVISION platform, the aim of which is to
provide non-ICT users with the means to create decision support
Web portals based on environmental services.This work has been partly funded by the European research
project ENVISION (FP7 249170), and partly by the Universitat
Jaume I predoctoral fellowship (PREDOC/2008/06) and by the
Fundació Caixa Castelló-Bancaixa mobility grant (E-2011-12