Third, A., Bennett, B. and Mallenby, D. (2007) Architecture for a grounded ontology of geographic information. In: Fonseca, F., Rodríguez, M.A. and Levashkin, S., (eds.) GeoSpatial Semantics. Proceedings of the Second International Conference. GeoS 2007, November 29-30 2007, Mexico City. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4853 (4853). Springer , Berlin / Heidelberg , pp. 36-50. ISBN 978-3-540-76875-3
Abstract
A major problem with encoding an ontology of geographic information in a formal language is how to cope with the issues of vagueness, ambiguity and multiple, possibly conflicting, perspectives on the same concepts. We present a means of structuring such an ontology which allows these issues to be handled in a controlled and principled manner, with reference to an example ontology of the domain of naive hydrography, and discuss some of the issues which arise when grounding such a theory in real data — that is to say, when relating qualitative geographic description to quantitative geographic data.
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| Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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| Institution: | The University of Leeds |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Irene Rudling |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2009 17:38 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2016 13:59 |
| Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_3 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Series Name: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_3 |
| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:7829 |
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