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Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency

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
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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