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The myth of the Digital Earth between fragmentation and wholeness
Andrea Ballatore
Daring predictions of the proximate future can establish shared discursive frameworks, mobilize capital, and steer complex processes. Among the prophetic visions that encouraged an…
Linking Geographic Vocabularies through WordNet
Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto, David C. Wilson
The linked open data (LOD) paradigm has emerged as a promising approach to structuring and sharing geospatial information. One of the major obstacles to this vision lies in the dif…
Defacing the map: Cartographic vandalism in the digital commons
Andrea Ballatore
This article addresses the emergent phenomenon of carto-vandalism, the intentional defacement of collaborative cartographic digital artefacts in the context of volunteered geograph…
An evaluative baseline for geo-semantic relatedness and similarity
Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto, David C. Wilson
In geographic information science and semantics, the computation of semantic similarity is widely recognised as key to supporting a vast number of tasks in information integration…
A Survey of Volunteered Open Geo-Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web
Andrea Ballatore, David C. Wilson, Michela Bertolotto
Over the past decade, rapid advances in web technologies, coupled with innovative models of spatial data collection and consumption, have generated a robust growth in geo-reference…
The semantic similarity ensemble
Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto, David C. Wilson
Computational measures of semantic similarity between geographic terms provide valuable support across geographic information retrieval, data mining, and information integration. T…