KIDGS: A geographical knowledge-informed digital gazetteer service

This paper describes the design and implementation of a geographical knowledge-informed digital gazetteer service, KIDGS. It is a standard web service that provides unified XML-based access interfaces for various applications. At present, many digital gazetteer systems are implemented directly based...

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Published in2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Yu Liu, Runqiang Li, Kaichen Chen, Yihong Yuan, Lingli Huang, Hao Yu
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2009
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Digital gazetteer
Geographical knowledge
Information systems
Knowledge management
Ontologies
Ontology
OWL
Relational databases
Remote sensing
Thesauri
Web services
Web sites
World Wide Web
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ISBN1424445620
9781424445622
ISSN2161-024X
DOI10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293495

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Summary:This paper describes the design and implementation of a geographical knowledge-informed digital gazetteer service, KIDGS. It is a standard web service that provides unified XML-based access interfaces for various applications. At present, many digital gazetteer systems are implemented directly based on relational databases. In other words, place name entries are managed by data tables. However, several components in geographical knowledge, such as category and relation information, should be explicitly represented to support various queries. In KIDGS, we adopt OWL and Proteacutegeacute to model the conceptual level of knowledge, and use PostGIS to store place names. This article also introduces an application developed based on KIDGS.
ISBN:1424445620
9781424445622
ISSN:2161-024X
DOI:10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293495