FGDC Feature Registry and its Role in Supporting Semantic Interoperability

摘要

This paper discusses the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) Feature Registry project and what the FGDC is doing to support semantic interoperability. It also discusses the semantic information captured for geospatial data by U.S. Federal Government agencies and their current practices for semantic mapping. This paper explores current, ongoing research and development that may contribute to enhancing the semantic interoperability for the geospatial data created by the U.S. Federal Government. Finally, this paper calls for additional research on semantic mapping that hopefully will lead to simplifying what has been appropriately labeled a hard problem.