Constructing Semantic Gazetteers: Managing GeoSpatial Vocabularies Using Open Semantic Web Standards
1. Constructing Semantic Gazetteers: Managing GeoSpatial Vocabularies Using Open Semantic Web Standards Stephane Fellah Barry J. Glick Yaser Bishr smartRealm LLC [email_address] Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference Washington DC, April 15, 2010
4. Role of gazetteer services ADEPT, Smith, October 1999 Where is …? What’s there? What happened there? Books News Web Publications Archives Geo referencing using gazetteer services Data smartRealm LLC confidential 9/16/2009
5. Semantic gazetteer vs. traditional gazetteers smartRealm LLC confidential 9/16/2009 Semantic gazetteer Traditional gazetteer services Multiple classification schemes Point geometry Multi geometry Geo-spatial semantic relations Time stamp for features Time stamp for geometries Time stamp for other properties Semantic disambiguation Profile gazetteer KB capable Spatial queries (Bbox, AOI) (only points)
GUI Description: The following picture depict the browsing of a geospatial hierarchical facet. Any selection on the facet acts as a filter in GUI and can be easily removed at any time. Moreover, if a facet item is selected then all the children facet item is displayed in sorted order with document counts.