Semantic Interoperability of Volunteered Geographic Information based on Contextual Knowledge

This contribution proposes a customizable SDI architecture to create, map, manage and share VGI in a full interoperable way by exploiting external knowledge on the context for which VGI is created, consisting of both domain ontologies and a representation of the entities of interest. The whole process of VGI creation by a smart app, VGI deploy on the Web, and finally VGI fruition is described and examples from Space4Agri project case study are proposed