Contents

Part I Information Sharing and Ontologies 1. Semantic Integration 2. Ontology-based Information Sharing 3. Ontology Language for the Semantic Web Part II Creating Ontologies and Metadata 4. Ontology Creation 5. Metadata Generation Part III Retreival, Integration and Querying 6. Retrieval and Integration 7. Sharing Statistical Information 8. Spatially-related Information 9. Integration and Retrieval Systems Part IV Distributed Ontologies 10. Modularization 11. Evolution Managemtn Part V Conclusions 12. Conclusion