The Geodatabase of the Piemonte Geological Map: conceptual design for knowledge encoding

Fabrizio Piana (a), Vincenzo Lombardo (b), Dario Mimmo (c), Elia Mulazzano (a), Luca Barale (a), Anna d'Atri (d), Andrea Irace (a), Michele Morelli (e), Pietro Mosca (a) & Sergio Tallone (a)
(a) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse (IGG), via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Torino, Italy. Corresponding author e-mail: f.piana@csg.to.cur.it. (b) Universit. di Torino, Dipartimento di Informatica; Corso Svizzera 185, 10121 Torino, Italy. (c) Gi-RES srl, Via Vittorio Amedeo II 6, 10121 Torino, Italy. (d) Universit. di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra (DST), via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Torino, Italy. (e) Arpa Piemonte, via Pio VII, 9 10135 Torino, Italy.

The Geodatabase of the Piemonte Geological Map was designed in a way suitable for linking the geological knowledge of the geological domain at hand to more general levels of knowledge represented in some Earth science ontologies and namely in a dedicated ontology (OntoGeonous). The paper describes how the two different knowledge levels are assimilated in the GeoPiemonte informative system, providing relations between the contents of the geodatabase and the encoded concepts of the reference ontologies.

Geodatabase, Ontology, Geological mapping, Orogenic system.