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Geolinked Open Data for the Municipality of Catania

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Sergio Consoli,

Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese,

Valentina Presutti,

Diego Reforgiato Recupero,

Daria SpampinatoAuthors Info & Claims

WIMS '14: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS14)

Article No.: 58, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2611040.2611092

Published: 02 June 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Linked Open Data (LOD) is reaching significant adoption in Public Administrations (PAs), where it is often required to be connected to existing platforms, such as GIS-based data management. Bearing on previous experience with the pioneering data.cnr.it, through Semantic Scout, as well as Italian DigitPA agency recommendations for LOD in Italian PA, we are working on the extraction, publication, and exploitation of data from the Geographic Information System of the Municipality of Catania, referred to as SIT ("Sistema Informativo Territoriale"). This paper describes the results and lessons learnt from the first campaign, aiming at analysing, reengineering, linking, and formalizing the Shape-based geo-data from the SIT.

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Geolinked Open Data for the Municipality of Catania
1. Applied computing
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
      1. Semantic networks

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