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SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA MODEL FOR INTEGRATING EVOLVING NATION-LEVEL DATASETS
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Sorokine, A. Stewart, R. N |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ability to easily combine the data from diverse sources in a single analytical workflow is one of the greatest promises of the Big Data technologies. However, such integration is often challenging as datasets originate from different vendors, governments, and research communities that results in multiple incompatibilities including data representations, formats, and semantics. Semantics differences are hardest to handle: different communities often use different attribute definitions and associate the records with different sets of evolving geographic entities. Analysis of global socioeconomic variables across multiple datasets over prolonged time is often complicated by the difference in how boundaries and histories of countries or other geographic entities are represented. Here we propose an event-based data model for depicting and tracking histories of evolving geographic units (countries, provinces, etc.) and their representations in disparate data. The model addresses the semantic challenge of preserving identity of geographic entities over time by defining criteria for the entity existence, a set of events that may affect its existence, and rules for mapping between different representations (datasets). Proposed model is used for maintaining an evolving compound database of global socioeconomic and environmental data harvested from multiple sources. Practical implementation of our model is demonstrated using PostgreSQL object-relational database with the use of temporal, geospatial, and NoSQL database extensions. |
| Ending Page | 76 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| Starting Page | 69 |
| e-ISSN | 21949050 |
| DOI | 10.5194/isprs-annals-iv-4-w2-69-2017 |
| Journal | ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Volume Number | IV-4/W2 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Copernicus GmbH |
| Publisher Date | 2017-10-19 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Cybernetical Science Medical Informatics Global Socioeconomic Data Model |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental Science Instrumentation |
