Thesaural and spatial knowledge in cultural heritage information retrieval systems

Alani, Harith; Jones, Christopher and Tudhope, Douglas (2000). Thesaural and spatial knowledge in cultural heritage information retrieval systems. In: GIS Research UK 2000 (Halls, Peter J ed.).

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Abstract

There is an increasing interest by cultural heritage organisations in developing hypermedia information systems to provide efficient ways to document, maintain, and search their data collections, and to open them to public access. However, search and retrieval of spatial data is known to suffer from many difficulties. Places normally have different versions of names, often change in size, boundaries, and centre co-ordinates. Furthermore, similarity between places is hard to calculate due to the wide range of characteristics associated with places and the complexity of inferring spatial relationships. This paper presents the research project OASIS, which attempts to improve spatial retrieval using a spatial hierarchy of places, enriched with thematic and geographical thesauri. OASIS applies a set of spatial measures to improve access by imprecisely matching places names.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright Holders:	2000 The Authors
Academic Unit/School:	Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL)
Item ID:	20071
Depositing User:	Harith Alani
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2010 15:50
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2016 10:33
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/20071
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