On the organisation of geographical knowledge: Data models for gazetteers and historical GIS
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Southall, Humphrey; von Lunen, Alexander; Aucott, Paula
- Source
- 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on E-Science Workshops E-Science Workshops, 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on. :162-166 Dec, 2009
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
General Topics for Engineers
Data models
Geographic Information Systems
Ontologies
Semantic Web
Geography
Taxonomy
Application software
Vocabulary
Information systems
Visualization
- Language
Historical documents contain many geographical names, and text describing geographical relationships, but few coordinates or accurate maps.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.