Article in Proceedings INPROC-2005-30

BibliographyVolz, Steffen: Data-Driven Matching of Geospatial Schemas.
In: Cohn and Mark (ed.): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: COSIT '05, Ellicottville, New York, September 14-18, 2005..
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
pp. 1-18, german.
Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, September 2005.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationLecture Notes in Computer Science 3693
CR-SchemaH.2.8 (Database Applications)
KeywordsGIS; Schema Matching
Abstract

The emergence of spatial data infrastructures offering geospatial information from heterogeneous sources involves the need to achieve an integration of databases from different data providers within a common platform. Generally, database integration consists of two steps: schema integration and object integration. Concerning schema integration, a crucial part is the identification of semantically corresponding elements in different schemas. This process is referred to as schema matching. In this paper, we present a data-driven approach for the matching of geospatial schemas. It is based on the idea of exploiting the instance-level relations between multiple representations (of one and the same real world object) that have been captured on the basis of different schemas. As a result, correlation measures are derived describing the degree of correspondence between the object classes of different schemas.

Contactsteffen.volz@ifp.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Photogrammetrie (ifp)
Project(s)SFB-627, B2 (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Photogrammetrie (ifp))
Entry dateJuly 4, 2005