Vocabularies and facets

ICAN Use Case

Washington State Atlas California Atlas

NETMARSemantic

Framework

NETMARExtended Thesauri

“Coastline”?

Local vocabulary Local vocabulary

“Coastline” - Shoreline - High res coastline

ShorelineHigh rescoastline

Data including: Shoreline & High res coastline

ICAN Use Case

ICAN Use Case

- Terms registered in a vocabulary server - Accessed through API - Semantic Mediator (based on CSW) handles inferencing

NETMAR Faceted Resource

Register development

- Latest SKOS specification- Payload includes governance & provenance information

- Ability to deliver true thesauri as concept schemes

- Provision for multilingual support

Register development

- RESTful and SOAP interfaces

- Nine methods available in API

- Concept deprecation an option

- Visualisation, search and edit tools - Poster XY421 tomorrow

Spectrum