Objective Today, a number of non-semantic web services are available within the geospatial domain. The scarcity of semantic annotation and the lack of a supportive environment for discovery and retrieval make it difficult to employ such services to solve a specific task in geospatial decision making. SWING aims at deploying Semantic Web Service (SWS) technology in the geospatial domain. In particular, we address two major obstacles that must be overcome for SWS technology to be generally adopted, i.e. to reduce the complexity of creating semantic descriptions and to increase the number of semantically described services.Today, a comprehensive knowledge of logics, ontologies, metadata and various specification languages is required to describe a service semantically. We will develop methods and tools that can hide the complexity - and automate the creation - of the necessary semantic descriptions. The objective of SWING is to provide an open, easy-to-use SWS framework of suitable ontologies and inference tools for annotation, discovery, composition, and invocation of geospatial web services. SWING builds on the DIP and SEKT IPs, by adopting, combining and reinforcing their results. A main key to the solution is adapting the SWS technology of DIP to handle geospatial services and content. Another key is utilising and advancing the technology of SEKT to annotate geospatial services with semantic information.A targeted synergy between these two research initiatives are demanded to maintain and extend Europe's leading role in SWS. The SWING framework and pilot application will increase the use of distributed and heterogeneous services in geospatial decision making. The results can be reused in other domains and will boost the availability of semantic services and bring the vision of the SWS a great leap forward. Exploitation of SWING's results will provide Europe's decision makers and citizens with a new paradigm of information retrieval and new business opportunities. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesknowledge engineeringontologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetsemantic web Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.4.7 - Semantic-based Knowledge and Content Systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator SINTEF - STIFTELSEN FOR INDUSTRIELL OG TEKNISK FORSKNING VED NORGES TEKNISKE HOEGSKOLE Address Strindveien 4 7034 Trondheim Norway See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 39-43, quai andre citroen - tour mirabeau Paris See on map Links Website Opens in new window INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window IONIC SOFTWARE SA Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rue de wallonie 18 4460 Grace-hollogne See on map LEOPOLD-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Innrain 52 6020 Innsbruck See on map NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address University road - Galway See on map Links Website Opens in new window WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window
