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The Semantic Web o?ers new options for information processes. Dr.
Visser is dealing with twocore issuesin this area: the
integrationofdata onthe sem- tic level and the problem of
spatio-temporalrepresentation and reasoning. He tackles existing
research problems within the ?eld of geographic information
systems(GIS), thesolutionsofwhichareessentialfor
animprovedfunction- ity of applicationsthat makeuse of the Semantic
Web (e.g., for heterogeneous digitalmaps).Inaddition,
theyareoffundamentalsigni?canceforinformation sciences as such. In
an introductory overview of this ?eld of research, he motivates the
- cessity for formal metadata for unstructured information in the
World Wide Web. Without metadata, an e?cient search on a semantic
level will turn out to be impossible, above all if it is not only
applied to a terminological level but also to spatial-temporal
knowledge. In this context, the task of infor-
tionintegrationisdividedinto syntactic, structural,
andsemanticintegration, the last class by far the most di?cult,
above all with respect to contextual semantic heterogeneities. A
current overview of the state of the art in the ?eld of information
in- gration follows. Emphasis is put particularly on the
representation of spatial and temporal aspects including the
corresponding inference mechanisms, and also the special
requirements on the Open GIS Consort
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