Title: Semantic interoperability based on Dublin Core hierarchical one-to-one mappings

Authors: R. Tolosana-Calasanz, J. Nogueras-Iso, R. Bejar, P.R. Muro-Medrano, F.J. Zarazaga-Soria

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. ' Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. ' Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. ' Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. ' Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Abstract: The tendency of current cataloguing systems is to interchange metadata in XML according to the specific standard required by each user on demand. Furthermore, metadata schemas from different domains are not usually semantically distinct but overlap and relate to each other in complex ways. As a consequence, the semantic interoperability has to deal with the equivalences between those descriptions. There exist two main approaches in order to tackle this problem: solutions based on the use of ontologies and solutions based on the creation of specific crosswalks for one-to-one mapping. This paper proposes a hierarchical one-to-one mapping solution for improving semantic interoperability.

Keywords: metadata standards; metadata servers; catalogue servers; spatial data infrastructures; interoperability; semantic interoperability; crosswalks; XML; Dublin Core; RDF; ISO 19115; metadata vocabularies.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2006.012342

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2006 Vol.1 No.3, pp.183 - 188

Published online: 06 Feb 2007 *

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