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Seminar
Connecting Spatial Databases to Ontologies.
Speaker: Dr. Femke Reitsma.
Institute: Department of Geography, University of Canterbury.
Time/Place: 3:10 pm, Friday, 27 Nov, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
All are welcome.
Abstract
Our traditional geospatial data model involves associating some measurable quality, such as temperature, or observable feature, such as a tree, with a point or region in space and time. When capturing data we implicitly subscribe to some kind of conceptualisation. If we can make this explicit in an ontology and associate it with the captured data in our database, we can leverage formal semantics to reason with the concepts represented in our spatial data sets and enhance our ability to discover and use that spatial data.
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