%0 Journal Article %1 kauppinen08geospatial %A Kauppinen, Tomi %A Väätäinen, Jari %A Hyvönen, Eero %D 2008 %J The Semantic Web: Research and Applications %K research.kr.ontology research.sw research.conceptual.time %P 110--123 %T Creating and Using Geospatial Ontology Time Series in a Semantic Cultural Heritage Portal %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_11 %X Content annotations in semantic cultural heritage portals commonly make spatiotemporal references to historical regions andplaces using names whose meanings are different in different times. For example, historical administrational regions suchas countries, municipalities, and cities have been renamed, merged together, split into parts, and annexed or moved to andfrom other regions. Even if the names of the regions remain the same (e.g., “Germany�?), the underlying regions and their relationshipsto other regions may change (e.g., the regional borders of “Germany�? at different times). As a result, representing and findingthe right ontological meanings for historical geographical names on the semantic web creates severe problems both when annotatingcontents and during information retrieval. This paper presents a model for representing the meaning of changing geospatialresources. Our aim is to enable precise annotation with temporal geospatial resources and to enable semantic search and browsingusing related names from other historical time periods. A simple model and metadata schema is presented for representing andmaintaining geospatial changes from which an explicit time series of temporal part-of ontologies can be created automatically.The model has been applied successfully to represent the complete change history of municipalities in Finland during 1865–2007.The resulting ontology time series is used in the semantic cultural heritage portal CultureSampo to support faceted semantic search of contents and to visualize historical regions on overlaying maps originating from differenthistorical eras.

@article{kauppinen08geospatial, abstract = {Content annotations in semantic cultural heritage portals commonly make spatiotemporal references to historical regions andplaces using names whose meanings are different in different times. For example, historical administrational regions suchas countries, municipalities, and cities have been renamed, merged together, split into parts, and annexed or moved to andfrom other regions. Even if the names of the regions remain the same (e.g., “Germany�?), the underlying regions and their relationshipsto other regions may change (e.g., the regional borders of “Germany�? at different times). As a result, representing and findingthe right ontological meanings for historical geographical names on the semantic web creates severe problems both when annotatingcontents and during information retrieval. This paper presents a model for representing the meaning of changing geospatialresources. Our aim is to enable precise annotation with temporal geospatial resources and to enable semantic search and browsingusing related names from other historical time periods. A simple model and metadata schema is presented for representing andmaintaining geospatial changes from which an explicit time series of temporal part-of ontologies can be created automatically.The model has been applied successfully to represent the complete change history of municipalities in Finland during 1865–2007.The resulting ontology time series is used in the semantic cultural heritage portal CultureSampo to support faceted semantic search of contents and to visualize historical regions on overlaying maps originating from differenthistorical eras.}, added-at = {2009-06-25T16:48:35.000+0200}, author = {Kauppinen, Tomi and Väätäinen, Jari and Hyvönen, Eero}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/263791d72bb364cf83c071367955c8c04/msn}, description = {SpringerLink - Book Chapter}, file = {kauppinen08geospatial.pdf:papers\\kauppinen08geospatial.pdf:PDF}, interhash = {197bdd6fdc5cf13891386190f9f04594}, intrahash = {63791d72bb364cf83c071367955c8c04}, journal = {The Semantic Web: Research and Applications}, keywords = {research.kr.ontology research.sw research.conceptual.time}, pages = {110--123}, timestamp = {2009-06-25T16:48:35.000+0200}, title = {Creating and Using Geospatial Ontology Time Series in a Semantic Cultural Heritage Portal}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_11}, year = 2008 }