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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3159
Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Subseries of Lecture Notes puter Science
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TEAM LinG
Ubbo Visser
Intelligent
Information Integration
for the Semantic Web
Springer
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Dedicated to my family Susan and Jannes as well as my parents
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Foreword
The Semantic Web offers new options for information processes. Dr. Visser is
dealing with two core issues in this area: the integration of data on the seman-
tic level and the problem of spatio-temporal representation and reasoning. He
tackles existing research problems within the field of geographic information
systems (GIS), the solutions of which are essential for an improved functional-
ity of applications that make use of the Semantic Web (., for heterogeneous
digital maps). In addition, they are of fundamental significance for information
sciences as such.
In an introductory overview of this field of research, he motivates the ne-
cessity for formal metadata for unstructured information in the World Wide
Web. Without metadata, an efficient search on a semantic level will turn out
to be impossible, above all if it is not only applied to a terminological level
but also to spatial-temporal knowledge. In this context, the task of informa-
tion integration is divided into syntactic, structural, and semantic integration,
the last class