Semantic Specification of Data Types for a World of Open Data

Data interoperability is an ongoing challenge for global open data initiatives. The machine-readable specification of data types for datasets will help address interoperability issues. Data types have typically been at the syntactical level such as integer, float and string, etc. in programming lang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaogang Ma, John S. Erickson, Stephan Zednik, Patrick West, Peter Fox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-03-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/5/3/38