A Geo-ontology Design Pattern for Semantic Trajectories

TitleA Geo-ontology Design Pattern for Semantic Trajectories
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsHu, Y, Janowicz, K, Carral, D, Scheider, S, Kuhn, W, Berg-Cross, G, Hitzler, P, Dean, M, Kolas, D
Conference NameSpatial Information Theory - 11th International Conference, COSIT 2013, Scarborough, UK, September 2-6, 2013. Proceedings
Pagination438–456
KeywordsOntology Design Pattern, OWL, Trajectory
Abstract

Trajectory data have been used in a variety of studies, including human behavior analysis, transportation management, and wildlife tracking. While each study area introduces a different perspective, they share the need to integrate positioning data with domain-specific information. Semantic annotations are necessary to improve discovery, reuse, and integration of trajectory data from different sources. Consequently, it would be beneficial if the common structure encountered in trajectory data could be annotated based on a shared vocabulary, abstracting from domain-specific aspects. Ontology design patterns are an increasingly popular approach to define such flexible and self-contained building blocks of annotations. They appear more suitable for the annotation of interdisciplinary, multi-thematic, and multi-perspective data than the use of foundational and domain ontologies alone. In this paper, we introduce such an ontology design pattern for semantic trajectories. It was developed as a community effort across multiple disciplines and in a data-driven fashion. We discuss the formalization of the pattern using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and apply the pattern to two different scenarios, personal travel and wildlife monitoring.

URLhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01790-7_24
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-01790-7_24

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