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Geospatial Semantic Web: Personalization

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Adaptation; Embodiment, individualization; Cognitive engineering; Externalization; Reasoning; User-centered; Contextualization; Personalization

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What Is the Semantic Web?

The basic principle underlying the semantic web is the idea of having data defined and linked in such a way that it can be used for more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse across various applications (Berners-Lee et al. 2001; Fensel 2002). With the idea of a semantic web in which machines can understand, process and reason about resources to provide better and more comfortable support for humans in interacting with the World Wide Web, the question of personalizing the interaction with web content to user needs and profile is of prime significance.

What Is the Geospatial Semantic Web?

Geographic data has meanings associated with it and semantic annotations of geographic data will allow for better retrieval and more effective use of geospatial services. Recent developments in the...

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  1. Department of Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, UK

    Pragya Agarwal

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Agarwal, P. (2017). Geospatial Semantic Web: Personalization. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_517

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