GeoKnow: Making the Web an Exploratory for Geospatial Knowledge
GeoKnow addresses a bold challenge in the area of intelligent information management: the exploitation of the Web as a platform for geospatial knowledge integration as well as for exploration of geographic information.
- Duration: 2012–2015
- Funding Programme: FP7-ICT-2011–8 (Collaborative Project - STReP)
What
- Bring geospatial knowledge integration to the Linked Data Web
- Billion-triple geospatial reasoning and data provenance
- Qualitative interlinking and fusing of geospatial and semantic information
- Adaptive geospatial exploration, authoring and curation
Why
- Unlock isolated islands of geographic information
- 80% of all data has some spatial dimension, most of it is not processable today
- Geographic data authoring with millions of users requires powerful tools
For whom
- Added value for the companies and the Linked Data Web community
- Cost-effective data integration for SMEs
- Enterprises can add value to their data with volunteered geographic information
- Users from travel industry will benefit from more background information
Project Team
- Dr. Konrad Höffner
- Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann (Principle Contact / Maintainer)
- Dr. Michael Martin
- Uroš Milošević
- Prof. Dr. Axel-C. Ngonga Ngomo
- Dr. Muhammad Saleem
- Claus Stadler
- Patrick Westphal