Reasoning with spatial plans on the semantic web

Rinke Hoekstra, Radboud Winkels, Erik Hupkes

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Abstract

There are several reasons why citizens, businesses and civil servants need access to regulations. Unfortunately, traditional approaches that aim to provide this access fall short, especially in the area of spatial planning. Fairly straightforward questions such as \where will I be able to perform this kind of activity" or \is this activity allowed here" are not answered automatically by current systems. There are many attempts to create one-stop-shop front-ends to eGovernment, but these are seldom built from the perspective of the user. This paper describes our work on what we call a Legal Atlas'. Using various Semantic Web technologies we combine distributed geospatial data, textual data and controlled vocabularies in order to support users in answering questions such as those mentioned above.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '09
Pages185-193
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '09 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: Jun 8 2009Jun 12 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '09
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period06/8/0906/12/09

Keywords

  • Google maps
  • Law
  • Legal assessment
  • Legal atlas
  • Norm
  • OWL
  • Ontology
  • Reasoning
  • SKOS
  • Semantic web
  • Spatial planning

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