MAKOCI: A WEB PORTAL FOR INTEGRATING AND SHARING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SERVICES
Abstract
The lack of integration and communication of various geographic information services (GI services) has resulted in many duplication collection of earth observation data, and challenges of semantic interoperability. This paper proposes an ontology-based multi-agents platform, called MAKOCI (multi-agent knowledge oriented cyberinfrastructure), which acts as GI service one stop to manage, publish, share, and discover GI services semantically. By ontologies, formal meanings of concepts are defined to annotate and discover GI services on a conceptual level for semantic interoperability. With the assistance of multi-agents, the processes in MAKOCI can be divided into various modules and be communicated based on the same semantics in ontologies. A prototype was implemented to test MAKOCI. Finally, we conclude the advantages and disadvantages of MAKOCI and point out several future works.
About the Authors
Chin-Te Jung
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei city, Taiwan, No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 106
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China
Chih-Hong Sun
Professor, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei city, Taiwan, No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 106
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China
Min-Fang Lien
Director of Technologies Department, Taiwan GIS Center, Taipei city, Taiwan, 6F, No,6, Sec. 1, Roosevelt Road, 106
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China
Chih-Shyang Chang
Professor, Department of Information Management, Tungnan University, New Taipei city, Taiwan, No. 152, Sec. 3, Beishen Road, 222
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China
Wei-Jen Chung
Engineer, Taiwan GIS Center, Taipei city, Taiwan, 6F, No,6, Sec. 1, Roosevelt Road, 106
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China
Hong-Yang Lin
Engineer, Taiwan GIS Center, Taipei city, Taiwan, 6F, No,6, Sec. 1, Roosevelt Road, 106
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China
Ping-Ying Tsai
Engineer, Taiwan GIS Center, Taipei city, Taiwan, 6F, No,6, Sec. 1, Roosevelt Road, 106
Taiwan, Province of China
Taiwan, Province of China
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Jung C., Sun C., Lien M., Chang C., Chung W., Lin H., Tsai P. MAKOCI: A WEB PORTAL FOR INTEGRATING AND SHARING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SERVICES. GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. 2013;6(1):37-54. https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2013-6-1-71-80
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