An Ontology-Driven Approach for Harmonizing and Integrating Environmental Information

Abstract

The paper describes an ontology-driven methodology to be used for the integration of heterogeneous environmental information that may be distributed in government agencies. The methodology adopts a series of systematic processes to construct a localized domain ontology which may be used as the driven force or guidelines for environmental information integration. As an example application, the Taiwan EPA’s Environmental Data Repository Project (EDR) is used to demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of the proposed methodology.