GeoSPARQL 1.1
Motivations, Details and Applications of the Decadal Update to the Most Important Geospatial LOD Standard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22031259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas J Car (SURROUND Australia Pty Ltd., Canberra 2600, Australia), Nicholas Car (0000-0002-8742-7730, Australian National University, corresponding author), Timo Homburg (0000-0002-9499-5840, University of Applied Sciences Mainz) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2220-9964 • E-ISSN: 2220-9964 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijgi11020117 |
| OpenAlex | W4210851291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
In 2012, the Open Geospatial Consortium published GeoSPARQL defining “an RDF/OWL ontology for [spatial] information”, “SPARQL extension functions” for performing spatial operations on RDF data and “RIF rules” defining entailments to be drawn from graph pattern matching. In the 8+ years since its publication, GeoSPARQL has become the most important spatial Semantic Web standard, as judged by references to it in other Semantic Web standards and its wide use for Semantic Web data. An update to GeoSPARQL was proposed in 2019 to deliver a version 1.1 with a charter to: handle outstanding change requests and source new ones from the user community and to “better present” the standard, that is to better link all the standard’s parts and better document and exemplify elements. Expected updates included new geometry representations, alignments to other ontologies, handling of new spatial referencing systems, and new artifact presentation. This paper describes motivating change requests and actual resultant updates in the candidate version 1.1 of the standard alongside reference implementations and usage examples. We also describe the theory behind particular updates, initial implementations of many parts of the standard, and our expectations for GeoSPARQL 1.1’s use
Cartography · Geography · Geospatial analysis · Geospatial PDF · Implementation · Information retrieval · Linked Data · Named graph · Ontology · RDF · Semantic Web · Software engineering · SPARQL · Web Ontology Language · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Data Management and Algorithms · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Semantic Web and Ontologies
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |