Research Publications - GeoSemantics

GeoSemantics concerns itself with an area of growing importance - how to efficiently combine multiple data sources so they can be exploited in new and varied ways. Our approach is to explicitly define the meaning of Ordnance Survey data, and the knowledge about the world of geography that we as an organisation hold. By encoding it in a way that's readable, and more importantly, understandable, by a computer, as well as humans, using a representation called an ontology, it becomes easier to semi-automatically integrate our data with our customers'.

The following are our list of recent publications. Papers from 2005 and earlier are available here.

Title/Citation	Type of publication	File size
Hart,G.'Linking to the past, geographically speaking: The Linked Data Web and Historical GIS'. Paper presented at JISC workshop on 'The Cultural Heritage of Historic European Cities and Public Participatory GIS', Held September 2009, University of York	Paper	191KB
Engelbrecht,P.,Hart,G.,Dolbear,C.'Talking Rabbit: a User Evaluation of Sentence Production'. Paper presented at the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009), Held 8-10th June 2009, Marettimo Island, Italy	Paper	65KB
Green,J.,Dolbear,C.,Hart,G.,Engelbrecht,P.,Goodwin.J. 'Creating a semantic integration system using spatial data' submitted as a poster to the International Semantic Web Conference 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany October 2008	Poster	92KB
Hart,G., Johnson,M.,Dolbear,C. 'Rabbit: Developing a controlled natural language for authoring ontologies' in Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Spain 1-5 June 2008. S Bechhofer, M Hauswirth, J Hoffmann and M Koubarakis Eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5021 Springer Verlag.	Paper	234KB
Engelbrecht,P.C., Dror,I.E. 'How psychology and cognition can inform the creation of ontologies in semantic technologies'. 18th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC2008), Tsukuba, Japan	Paper	56KB
Dennaux,R.,Holt.I.,Dimitrova,V.,Dolbear,C.,Cohn,A. 'Supporting construction of conceptual ontologies with the Confluence tool' in Proceedings of the OWL Experiences and Directions Workshop, April 2008, Washington DC	Paper	166KB
Schwitter,R., Kaljurand,K.,Cregan.A, Dolbear.C, Hart.G. 'A comparison of three controlled natural languages for OWL 1.1' in Proceedings of the OWL Experiences and Directions Workshop, April 2008, Washington DC	Paper	150KB
Dolbear,C. and Hart,G. 'Ontological Bridge Building - using ontologies to merge spatial datasets' in proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration, AAAI/SSS Workshop, March 26-28 2008, Stanford U, CA	Paper	74KB
Dolbear, C. and Hart, G. (2007) 'From theory to query: using ontologies to make explicit imprecise spatial relationships for database querying' International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) September 2007, Melbourne, Australia.	Poster	1.6 MB
Dolbear, C. and Goodwin, J. (2007) 'Expressing Relational Data as RDF' W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, November 2007	Paper	31 KB
Hart, G, Dolbear C and Goodwin, J. (2007) 'Lege Feliciter: Using Structured English to represent a Topographic Hydrology Ontology.' In Proceedings of the OWL Experiences and Directions Workshop, 2007	Poster	196 KB
Kovacs, K. Dolbear, C. and Goodwin, J. (2007) 'Spatial Concepts and OWL issues in a topographic ontology framework'. In Proceedings of the Geographic Information Science Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, April 2007	Paper	38 KB
Dolbear, C. Hart, H. and Goodwin, J.(2006) 'What OWL has done for geography and why we don't need it to map read' In Proceedings of the OWL Experiences and Directions Workshop 2006, Athens, Georgia, November 2006	Paper	31 KB
Dolbear, C. and Hart, G.(2006) 'Combining spatial and semantic queries into spatial databases' presented In: International Semantic Web Conference. Held: November 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA	Poster	812 KB

Technical Reports	Report Number	File size
Hart, G. and Goodwin, J. 'Modelling Guidelines for Constructing Domain Ontologies'	I-0006	220KB
Goodwin, J. 'A Methodology for Converting Conceptual Ontologies to OWL'	I-0005	136KB
Dolbear, C., Hart, G. Kovacs, K. Zhou, S. and Goodwin, J. 'The Rabbit Language: Description, Syntax and Conversion to OWL'	I-0004	189KB
Hart, G., Dolbear, C., Goodwin, J and Kovacs, K. 'Domain Ontology Development'	I-0003	483KB
Kovacs, K., Dolbear, C., Hart, G, Goodwin, J and Mizen, H. 'A Methodology for Building Conceptual Domain Ontologies'	I-0002	203KB
Dolbear,C. Goodwin, J., Mizen H. and Ritchie, J.‘Semantic interoperability between topographic data and flood defence ontology’.	I-0001	104KB

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