A Dynamic Geo-scientific Ontology Tool
This paper briefly reviews recent development of the geo-scientific ontology for the geoscience data integration,examines the dynamic characteristics of the geo-scientific knowledge and discusses in detail epistemic considerations of the ontology. It has been recognized that geoscience has its own way to define and classify concepts and that geo-scientific knowledge is situational and interpretive. Therefore, the authors of this paper propose a tool that allows its users to edit the geo-scientific ontology on an ongoing and interactive basis. The ontology basically consists of hierarchical, localization, and interpretation models. It has been demonstrated that these models can be used not only for the geoscience data integration, but also for other geological application, e.g.drilling down in the data sets or category data in the databases.
ontology tool epistemology geo-scientific ontology geoscience ontology geological interpretation model
Kangping Sun Xiaonan Niu
China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P.R.China
国际会议
北京国际地理信息系统学术讨论会第七届会议（7th International Workshop Geographical Information System
北京
英文
163-170
2007-09-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）