All texts written in the classical period are rooted in geographic space and contain references to geographic places in some respect. Therefore, it is interesting to use a web resource that include references to geographic context. Most research is based on the use of a gazetteer in which a place is normally represented by point locations. The limited spatial semantics associated with these approaches narrows the scope of their ability to retrieve useful resources for spatial queries. This paper describes how to build a geo-ontology, which plays a central role in intelligent spatial search on the web and it serves as a shared vocabulary for spatial mark-up of Web sources. Finally, we present the development of GEOLAT ontology, which represents geographical information about Latin texts. To show that GEOLAT ontology is comprehensive and informative, we describe the specific role it plays in representing information in three different domains: contemporary and ancient geography, Latin literature, as well as philosophical ontology of geography.

Geographical Ontology for Latin Literature: the case of Geolat project

TAMBASSI T
2015-01-01

Abstract

All texts written in the classical period are rooted in geographic space and contain references to geographic places in some respect. Therefore, it is interesting to use a web resource that include references to geographic context. Most research is based on the use of a gazetteer in which a place is normally represented by point locations. The limited spatial semantics associated with these approaches narrows the scope of their ability to retrieve useful resources for spatial queries. This paper describes how to build a geo-ontology, which plays a central role in intelligent spatial search on the web and it serves as a shared vocabulary for spatial mark-up of Web sources. Finally, we present the development of GEOLAT ontology, which represents geographical information about Latin texts. To show that GEOLAT ontology is comprehensive and informative, we describe the specific role it plays in representing information in three different domains: contemporary and ancient geography, Latin literature, as well as philosophical ontology of geography.
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