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The Location Index: A Semantic Web Spatial Data Infrastructure

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The Location Index (LocI) project is building a national and authoritative, also federated, index for Australian spatial data using Semantic Web technologies. It will be used to link observation and measurement data (social, economic and environmental) to spatial objects identified in any one of multiple, interoperable, datasets. Its goal is to improve efficiency and reliability of data integration to support government decision making.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.abs.gov.au/.

  2. 2.

    There are 6 WFS instances that supply data for this product. The WFS for the asgs:MeshBlock class is available at https://geo.abs.gov.au/arcgis/services/ASGS2016/MB/MapServer/WFSServer.

  3. 3.

    http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs.

  4. 4.

    http://www.bom.gov.au/.

  5. 5.

    The original WFS is http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/documentation/ however it’s been re-implemented for updated functionality.

  6. 6.

    http://www.psma.com.au/.

  7. 7.

    https://data.gov.au/dataset/geocoded-national-address-file-g-naf.

  8. 8.

    http://www.ga.gov.au/placename. This dataset is a Geoscience Australia product.

  9. 9.

    http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/Statistical+Data+Integration+-+MADIP.

  10. 10.

    http://abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/Statistical+Data+Integration+-+Business+Longitudinal+Analysis+Data+Environment+(BLADE).

  11. 11.

    http://www.linked.data.gov.au.

  12. 12.

    http://www.linked.data.gov.au/governance.

  13. 13.

    https://www.digital.gov.au.

  14. 14.

    http://www.linked.data.gov.au/governance.

  15. 15.

    http://linked.data.gov.au/def/loci.

  16. 16.

    https://github.com/CSIRO-enviro-informatics/geosparql-ext-ont.

  17. 17.

    Recent discussion within the Spatial Data on the web Interest group (see the email archive: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2018Nov/0085.html) has failed to provide simple existing mechanisms for this and though an extension to GeoSPARQL or a new general-purpose spatial ontology have been proposed, these will not be timely for LocI.

  18. 18.

    The Registry Ontology, http://purl.org/linked-data/registry.

  19. 19.

    https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs.

  20. 20.

    https://schema.org.

  21. 21.

    https://github.com/CSIRO-enviro-informatics/pyldapi-client.

  22. 22.

    http://linked.data.gov.au/linkset/bhafqv.

  23. 23.

    See https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-overview/ for all SPARQL documents.

  24. 24.

    https://pypi.org/project/pyldapi/.

  25. 25.

    https://github.com/RDFLib/.

  26. 26.

    https://github.com/CSIRO-enviro-informatics/pyldapi-client.

  27. 27.

    https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/Siss/PIDService.

  28. 28.

    https://github.com/AGLDWG/pid-proxy.

  29. 29.

    http://httpd.apache.org/.

  30. 30.

    https://pypi.org/project/pyshacl/.

  31. 31.

    https://pypi.org/project/owlrl/.

  32. 32.

    See the SHACL implementation report.

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Car, N.J., Box, P.J., Sommer, A. (2019). The Location Index: A Semantic Web Spatial Data Infrastructure. In: Hitzler, P., et al. The Semantic Web. ESWC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11503. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21348-0_35

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