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Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning

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Narrative descriptions about populated places are very common in ethnographies. In old articles and books on the migration history of Taiwan aborigines, for example, narrative sentences are the norms for describing the locations of aboriginal settlements. These narratives constitute a form of geospatial knowledge, and there is a need to develop knowledge representation and reasoning techniques to help analyze literatures, and to aid field works. In this paper, we outline the design of a formal vocabulary to represent and reason about geospatial narratives about populated places, keeping as close as possible to the phrases used in ethnographies. The vocabulary is implemented as OWL concepts and properties, and the rules for geospatial reasoning are expressed in SWRL.

This research is supported in part by National Science Council of Taiwan under grant NSC 98-2410-H-001-075-MY2 (“Ontology–based Collaborative Production of Geospatial Information”).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Information Science,  

    Chin–Lung Chang, Tyng–Ruey Chuang, Dong–Po Deng & Andrea Wei–Ching Huang

  2. Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yi–Hong Chang

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chin–Lung Chang

  4. ITC — International Institute for Geo–Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Dong–Po Deng

Authors
  1. Chin–Lung Chang
  2. Yi–Hong Chang
  3. Tyng–Ruey Chuang
  4. Dong–Po Deng
  5. Andrea Wei–Ching Huang

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  1. Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, PA, USA

    Krzysztof Janowicz

  2. Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106, CA, USA

    Martin Raubal

  3. Centro de Investigacion en Computacion, National Polytechnic Institute, 07738, Mexico City, Mexico

    Sergei Levashkin

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Chang, C., Chang, Y., Chuang, T., Deng, D., Huang, A.W. (2009). Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning . In: Janowicz, K., Raubal, M., Levashkin, S. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5892. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10436-7_12

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