[WB4] Resource Discovery

Resource discovery means the discovery of resources including data and services needed for an application. Syntactic discovery refers to the discovery on the basis of syntactic comparison operations. It is classified as "keyword-based" and "full-text-based" discovery. Semantic discovery on the other hand, refers to the discovery of resources on he basis of some semantic definition. Therefore, semantic discovery requires that a resource be published by a semantic definition as defined in the topic WB3-5.

External resources

• Gui, Z., Yang, C., Xia, J., Liu, K., Xu, C., Li, J., & Lostritto, P. (2013). A performance, semantic and service quality-enhanced distributed search engine for improving geospatial resource discovery. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(6), 1109-1132.
• Smits, P. C., & Friis-Christensen, A. (2006). Resource discovery in a European spatial data infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 19(1), 85-95.

Learning outcomes

• 2246 - Explain the differences between syntatic and semantic discovery of resources

  Explain the differences between syntatic and semantic discovery of resources

Self assessment

Outgoing relations

• [WB4] Resource Discovery subclassof [WB] Web-based GI

Incoming relations

• [WB4-1] Syntactic discovery subclassof [WB4] Resource Discovery
• [WB4-2] Semantic discovery subclassof [WB4] Resource Discovery
• [WB4-3] Discovery over linked open data subclassof [WB4] Resource Discovery