CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

In this article, we discussed the emerging field of semantic analytics and our thoughts on extending semantic analytics from the purely thematic dimension to all three dimensions of theme, space, and time. We presented background work from the Semantic Web community and described how these new technologies can provide a means for semantic analysis of geospatial and temporal information. Semantic analytics has applications in general areas like document search and analysis and in more focused domains like Bioinformatics. In the future, we see semantic analytics that span the thematic, geospatial, and temporal aspects of information gaining more popularity. Diverse applications of such a capability include emergency and natural disaster response, homeland and national security, and education and training.