Sharing ontology by web services: Implementation of a semantic network service (SNS) in the context of the german environmental information network (gein
Thomas Bandholtz · 2003
Abstract. A thesaurus, a gazetteer and a chronology have been integrated in a consolidated ontology on the basis of the Topic Map pattern. The result has been made accessible to a working information community of 89 environmental authorities in Germany by Web Services technology. A semantically shared ontology can be shared physically in the Web.