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'.

Title/Citation	Type of publication	File size
Hemsley-Flint, F. (2005) ‘Towards a methodology for domain expert development of geo-ontologies’. In: First International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics GeoS 2005. Held November 29-30, 2005, Mexico City.	Poster	1.96MB
Goodwin, J. (2005) ‘Experiences of using OWL at the Ordnance Survey’. In: OWL: Experiences and Directions. Held November 11-12, 2005, Galway, Ireland.	Paper	101KB
Goodwin, J. (2005) ‘What have Ontologies ever done for us – potential applications at a National Mapping Agency’./a> In OWL: Experiences and Directions. Held November 11-12, 2005, Galway, Ireland.<	Paper	59.1KB
Mizen, H., Dolbear, C., and Hart, G. (2005) ‘Ontology Ontogeny: understanding how an Ontology is created and developed’. In: First International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics GeoS 2005. Held November 29-30, 2005, Mexico City: 15-29	Paper	107KB
Schwering, A., and Raubal, M. (2005) ‘Spatial relations for Semantic Similiarity Measurement’. In: ER 2005, 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, session ER 8. Held October 26-28, 2005, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.	Paper	14.3KB
Schwering, A., and Raubal, M. (2005) ‘Spatial relations for Semantic Similiarity Measurement’. In: ER 2005, 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, session ER 8. Held October 26-28, 2005, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.	Poster	148KB
Schwering, A. (2005) ‘Measuring Semantic Similarity between Geospatial Conceptual Regions’ In: First International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics GeoS 2005. Held November 29-30, 2005, Mexico City: 90-106	Paper	131KB
Schwering, A. (2004) ‘Semantic Neighbourhood for Spatial Relations’ In: 3rd International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 04. Held October 20-23, 2004, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA	Paper	44.4KB
Hart, G., Temple, S., and Mizen, H. (2004) ‘Tales of the river bank – first stages in the development of a Topographic Ontology’.	Paper	57.6KB
Hart, G., Temple, S., and Mizen, H. (2004) ‘Tales of the river bank – An overview of the first stages in the development of a Topographic Ontology’. In: GISRUK 2004 – Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 12th Annual Conference. Held April 28-30, 2004, University of East Anglia, Norwich: 179-186	Paper	78.7KB
Schwering, A., and Hart, G. (2004) ‘A case study for Semantic Translation of the Water Framework Directive and a Topographic Database’. In: Proceedings of the 7th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Held April 29th - May 1st, 2004, Heraklion,Greece: 6.1 Semantics II		254KB
Hart, G., and Greenwood, J. (2003) ‘A component based approach to Geo-ontologies and Geodata Modelling to enable data sharing’. In: Proceedings of the 6th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Held April 24-26, 2003, Lyon, France: 197-206	Paper	117KB
Greenwood, J., and Hart G. (2003) ‘Sharing feature based geographic information – a data model prospective’. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on GeoComputation. Held September 8-10, 2003, University of Southampton, UK.		47.6KB

Technical Reports	Report Number	File size
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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