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Core geographical concepts: case Finnish geo-ontology

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Riikka Henriksson,

Tomi Kauppinen,

Eero HyvönenAuthors Info & Claims

LOCWEB '08: Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web

Pages 57 - 60

https://doi.org/10.1145/1367798.1367807

Published: 22 April 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This paper examines 1) the scope of geo-ontologies used for the purposes of information retrieval on the Web, 2) the core geographical concepts and their mutual relations, and 3) the properties the concepts have. Furthermore, we present the Finnish geo-ontology (Suomalainen paikkaontologia, SUO) and discuss the theories and principles that have governed the development process, as well as the limitations and requirements the use of geographical dictionaries as an instance data source have imposed to the content and the structure of SUO.

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Ahonen EHyvonen E(2009)Publishing Historical Texts on the Semantic Web - A Case StudyProceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing10.1109/ICSC.2009.9(167-173)Online publication date: 14-Sep-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSC.2009.9

Index Terms

Core geographical concepts: case Finnish geo-ontology
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Formal language definitions
2. Theory of computation
  1. Formal languages and automata theory

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LOCWEB '08: Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web

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ISBN:9781605581606

DOI:10.1145/1367798

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University of Oldenburg
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Cardiff University
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Yahoo!, Inc.
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University of Zurich
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MODUL University Vienna
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Zhong SFang ZZhu MHuang Q(2017)A geo-ontology-based approach to decision-making in emergency management of meteorological disastersNatural Hazards10.1007/s11069-017-2979-z89:2(531-554)Online publication date: 13-Jul-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-017-2979-z
Ahonen EHyvonen E(2009)Publishing Historical Texts on the Semantic Web - A Case StudyProceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing10.1109/ICSC.2009.9(167-173)Online publication date: 14-Sep-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSC.2009.9

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