Verifying who someone is on the Internet is a prerequisite for online services that process
sensitive or valuable information. While this has been solved with national or sectorial …

In this monograph we consider the development of Web Science since the launch of this
journal and its inaugural publication'A Framework for Web Science'[44]. The theme of …

With residential and commercial space becoming increasingly scarce, cities are going
vertical. Managing the urban environments in 3D is an increasingly important and complex …

Value creation and innovation by a range of stakeholders, including citizens, analysts,
journalists, non-profit entities, etc. are the hallmarks of Open Government Data (OGD) …

Distinct, alternative forms of geosemantics, whose classification is often ill-defined, emerge
in the management of geospatial information. This paper proposes a workflow to identify …

As part of its administrative duty, a government agency must translate written legislation to
encode it in government information systems (GovIS) that operationalize the legislation. The …

Science and policy increasingly request for sustainable development and growth. Similarly,
Digital Earth undergoes a paradigm shift to an open platform that actively supports user …

Censuses are one of the most relevant types of statistical data, allowing analyses of the
population in terms of demography, economy, sociology, and culture. For fine‐grained …

The emergence of modern technologies and widespread access to the Internet has led to an
increase in interest in map** websites. The data provided by online map** geoportals is …

Geospatial metadata are largely denormalized inasmuch as resource descriptions typically
accommodate property values as plain text. Hence, it is not possible to bring multiple …