A wiki system is a typical Web 2.0 application that provides a bi-directional platform for users to collaborate and share much useful information online.Unfortunately,computers cannot well understand the wiki pages in...A wiki system is a typical Web 2.0 application that provides a bi-directional platform for users to collaborate and share much useful information online.Unfortunately,computers cannot well understand the wiki pages in plain text.The user-generated geographical content via wiki systems cannot be manipulated properly and efficiently unless the geographical semantics is explicitly represented.In this paper,a geographical semantic wiki system,Geo-Wiki,is introduced to solve this problem.Geo-Wiki is a semantic geographical knowledge-sharing web system based on geographical ontologies so that computers can parse and storage the multi-source geographical knowledge.Moreover,Geo-Wiki mashed up with map services enriches the representation and helps users to find spatial distribution patterns,and thus can serve geospatial decision-making by customizing the Google Maps APIs.展开更多
基金supported by the National Hi-Tech Research and Develop-ment Program of China ("863" Project) (Grant No.2007AA120502)the National Key Technologies Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos.2008BAJ11B04,2006BAJ14B04)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.40701134,40771171,40928001)
文摘A wiki system is a typical Web 2.0 application that provides a bi-directional platform for users to collaborate and share much useful information online.Unfortunately,computers cannot well understand the wiki pages in plain text.The user-generated geographical content via wiki systems cannot be manipulated properly and efficiently unless the geographical semantics is explicitly represented.In this paper,a geographical semantic wiki system,Geo-Wiki,is introduced to solve this problem.Geo-Wiki is a semantic geographical knowledge-sharing web system based on geographical ontologies so that computers can parse and storage the multi-source geographical knowledge.Moreover,Geo-Wiki mashed up with map services enriches the representation and helps users to find spatial distribution patterns,and thus can serve geospatial decision-making by customizing the Google Maps APIs.
