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This online course is designed to introduce you to the various components of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, their functionality, and the standards and specifications necessary to implement them.

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Ontology Service

Under investigation
Description
 

An Ontology Service does two things:

  1. It provides a mechanism to maintain a thesaurus of terms that indicates equivalent terms in different languages, disciplines, and data suppliers, particularly those terms that are geospatial in context.
  2. It facilitates manual or automated translation of metadata, text, or feature type selections.
Implementation Specification
 
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Status
 
Proposed
Other Info
 

An ontology service is seen as a low priority. It is unlikely that it will be specified before 2005. There are no special geospatial requirements for the specification of this service, so CGDI may be able to adopt specifications for this service from another IT community.

Functions to maintain the semantic relations within and between different thesauri could be included.

effective 2001.11.06