Title :
On the organisation of geographical knowledge: Data models for gazetteers and historical GIS
Author :
Southall, Humphrey ; Von Lünen, Alexander ; Aucott, Paula
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Geogr., Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Abstract :
Historical documents contain many geographical names, and text describing geographical relationships, but few coordinates or accurate maps. Historical GISs consequently contain much conjecture and anachronistic data. The paper outlines an alternative approach based on a formal representation of the textual information.
Keywords :
data models; document handling; geographic information systems; knowledge representation; anachronistic data; data models; formal representation; gazetteers; geographical knowledge; geographical names; geographical relationships; historical GIS; historical documents; textual information; Application software; Data models; Geographic Information Systems; Geography; Information systems; Ontologies; Semantic Web; Taxonomy; Visualization; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
E-Science Workshops, 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oxford
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5946-9
DOI :
10.1109/ESCIW.2009.5407970
