Robust and efficient fuzzy match for online data cleaning
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
Introduction to digital gazetteer research
International Journal of Geographical Information Science - Digital Gazetteer Research
The role of ontology in improving gazetteer interaction
International Journal of Geographical Information Science - Digital Gazetteer Research
Conceptualization of place via spatial clustering and co-occurrence analysis
Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks
A theoretical grounding for semantic descriptions of place
W2GIS'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web and wireless geographical information systems
Community-based production of geographic information using open source software and Web 2.0
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Automatic gazetteer enrichment with user-geocoded data
Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information
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The recent and expanding phenomena of volunteered geographic information (VGI) have potential for building locally rich geographic knowledgebases. Volunteer contributions include a broad range of geographically associated content that has the potential to contribute to collective digital place knowledge, but contributions are scattered over the web with little to no common structure or formal metadata. This paper explores some organizing principles and a potential structure for integrating VGI. Characteristics of VGI suggest organization around features rather than layers, support for multiple representations that capture different contributor perspectives, and integration around the concept of place. A semantic web based gazetteer model that manages features, multiple representations of features, and varying levels of association of features to places is suggested as an integration framework. Semantics of the gazetteer and inference on these semantics provide support for integrating diverse VGI content around hierarchies of officially named places as starting points. Preliminary work illustrates the approach with samples of VGI data from Maine.