Architecture for a grounded ontology of geographic information

Third, Allan; Bennett, Brandon and Mallenby, David (2007). Architecture for a grounded ontology of geographic information. In: (GEOS 2007) Second International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics , 29-30 November 2007, Mexico City, Mexico.

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DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link:	http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_3
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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.

Item Type:	Conference Item
Copyright Holders:	2007 Springer-Verlag
Funders:	EPSRC grant no. EP/D002834/1
Extra Information:	Published in: F. Fonseca, M.A. Rodrıguez, and S. Levashkin (Eds.): GeoS 2007, LNCS 4853, pp. 36–50, 2007
Academic Unit/Department:	Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
Related URLs:	http://geosco.org/geos2007/(Other)
Item ID:	29941
Depositing User:	Allan Third
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2011 12:45
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2011 12:54
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/29941

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