The semantic network service - supporting heterogeneous environmental information systems
Matthias Menger, Maria Rüther · International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications · 2006
This paper describes aim, technology and prospects of the Semantic Network Service (SNS)3 which has been developed by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA, Federal Environment Agency of Germany) and is integrated in and used by several environmental and geographical in formation systems. SNS offers the possibility to share controlled environmental vocabulary and to boost the search and retrieval performance of environmental information systems.