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Linked Open Data for Environment Protection in Smart Regions - The SmartOpenData Project Approach

Abstract

Many different open information sources currently exist for protecting the environment in Europe, mainly focused on Natura 2000 network, and areas where environmental protection and activities like tourism need to be balanced. Managing these data and integrating them for supporting decision makers and for novel uses is a challenging task. The SmartOpenData project (2013-1015) aims to define mechanisms for acquiring, adapting and using Open Data provided by existing sources for environment protection in European protected areas. Through target pilots in these areas, the project will harmonise metadata, improve spatial data fusion and visualisation and publish the resulting information according to user requirements and Linked Open Data principles to provide new opportunities for use. SmartOpenData will be based on previous experiences of Habitats project, which defined models and tools for managing spatial data in environmental protection areas. This paper provides an introduction to the SmartOpenData with a specific focus on the motivation, goals, and technical focus of the project, and outlines the architecture of the approach taken by SmartOpenData.

Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Phil Archer
  • Karel Charvat
  • De La Cruz Mariano Navarro
  • Iglesias Carlos Ángel
  • O'Flaherty John
  • Robles Tomás
  • Dumitru Roman

Affiliation

  • France
  • Czech Republic
  • Spain
  • Technical University of Madrid
  • Ireland
  • SINTEF Digital / Sustainable Communication Technologies

Year

2015

Published in

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

ISSN

1613-0073

Volume

1322

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