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GeoKnow: Leveraging Geospatial Data in the Web of Data Alejandra Garcia-Rojas1, Spiros Athanasiou2, Jens Lehmann3 and Daniel Hladky1 1Ontos AG 2Institute for the Management of Information Systems, R.C. “Athena” 3Institute of Applied Computer Science, University of Leipzig 1 Motivation Producing and updating geospatial data is expensive and resource intensive. Hence, it becomes crucial to be able to integrate, repurpose and extract added value from geospatial data to support decision making and management of lo- cal, national and global resources. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) and the standardisation e?orts from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) serve this goal, enabling geospatial data sharing, integration and reuse among Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Geospatial data are now, more than ever, truly syntactically interoperable. However, they remain largely isolated in the GIS realm and thus absent from the Web of Data. Linked data technologies en- abling semantic interoperability, interlinking, querying, reasoning, aggregation, fusion, and visualisation of geospatial data are only slowly emerging. The vision of GeoKnow is to leverage geospatial data as ?rst-class citizens in the Web of Data, in proportion to their signi?cance for the data economy. 2 Open Geospatial Data on the Web Currently, there are three major sources of open geospatial data in the Web: Spatial Data Infrastructures, open data catalogues, and crowdsourced initia- tives. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) were created to promote the dis- covery, acquisition, exploitation and sharing of geographic information. They include technological and organisational structures, policies and standards that enable e?cient discovery, transfer and use of geospatial data using the web [1]. Research and development in this ?eld is closely tied to stand