Abstract The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for
semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the involved disciplines ranging from the …

Abstract The Linked Data paradigm has made significant inroads into research and practice
around spatial information and it is time to reflect on what this means for GIScience …

This paper presents the vision and results of creating a national level cross-domain ontology
and ontology service infrastructure in Finland. The novelty of the infrastructure is based on …

This paper presents a task‐based and Semantic Web approach to find geospatial data. The
purpose of the project is to improve data discovery and facilitate automatic retrieval of data …

The aim of the paper is to present rough set methods of constructing hierarchical classifiers
for approximation of complex concepts. Classifiers are constructed on the basis of …

This paper defines a generic, reusable ontology for representing the definitions of ISO37120
Global City Indicators and their instantiation on the Semantic Web by cities. The ontology …

This paper addresses the problem of how city indicators and their supporting data are to be
published on the Semantic Web so that automated analysis can be performed. With the …

Reference to places is a central but largely underexposed problem of information science.
Place has been a major object of research in many domains including Geography, Cognitive …

The notion of territory plays a major role in human and social sciences. Representation of
this spatio-temporal object and computation of the changes occurring have been tackled in …

This article presents the Theseus Framework designed for the automatic creation of
knowledge graphs (KGs) that describe the evolution of geographical divisions (GD) over …