Title
A holistic approach to aligning geospatial data with multidimensional similarity measuring.
Abstract
Semantically aligning the heterogeneous geospatial datasets (GDs) produced by different organizations demands efficient similarity matching methods. However, the strategies employed to align the schema (concept and property) and instances are usually not reusable, and the effects of unbalanced information tend to be neglected in GD alignment. To solve this problem, a holistic approach is presented in this paper to integrally align the geospatial entities (concepts, properties and instances) simultaneously. Spatial, lexical, structural and extensional similarity metrics are designed and automatically aggregated by means of approval voting. The presented approach is validated with real geographical semantic webs, Geonames and OpenStreetMap. Compared with the well-known extensional-based aligning system, the presented approach not only considers more information involved in GD alignment, but also avoids the artificial parameter setting in metric aggregation. It reduces the dependency on specific information, and makes the alignment more robust under the unbalanced distribution of various information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1080/17538947.2017.1359688
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL EARTH
Keywords
Field
DocType
Geospatial data,data alignment,similarity matching,semantic web
Geospatial analysis,Data mining,Information retrieval,Computer science,Semantic Web,Extensional definition,Schema (psychology),Similarity matching,Data structure alignment,Approval voting
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11.0
8.0
1753-8947
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.44
37
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Yu120.44
Peiyuan Qiu2142.77
Xiliang Liu316613.32
Feng Lu45413.55
Bo Wan520.44