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The Semantic Network Service -- Supporting Heterogeneous Environmental Information Systems

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This paper describes aim, technology and prospects of the 'Semantic Network Service' – SNS which has been developed by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA, Federal Environment Agency of Germany) and is integrated in and used by several environmental and geographical information systems. SNS offers the possibility to share controlled environmental vocabulary and to boost the search and retrieval performance of environmental information systems.

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Matthias Menger
Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin, Germany,
Maria Rüther
Umweltbundesamt, Dessau, Germany (Federal Environment Agency of Germany),

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Menger, M., & Rüther, M. (2006). The Semantic Network Service -- Supporting Heterogeneous Environmental Information Systems. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2006. https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.952108606

DOI : 10.23106/dcmi.952108606

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