Building place reference systems that can be used as annotation standard for integrating web resources and geographic information. In particular, distinguish a variety of relevant types of place by reconstructing them from affordance-perception in the env

为了实现Al戈尔的数字地球等长期愿景，我们需要一种更好的方法来语义集成可用的异构数据源。出于集成的目的，需要为数据中的关键术语找到公共引用。由于大多数数字信息都有一些显式或隐式的空间参考，因此将其用作集成键似乎是显而易见的。但这只有在空间参考可以被识别并映射到另一个的情况下才有可能。然而，人类主要使用市场等地点作为空间参考，而目前的地理信息系统以及地名索引等网络定位服务则以大地坐标为基础。由于大多数人类的空间话语发生在地方，而不是空间，目前的GIS系统和网络定位器的做法似乎部分考虑不周。我们跟随人类地理学家，如Tuan和Relph，认为地点和位置，即使在日常用语中经常互换使用，也表示非常不同的类别。特别是，地方往往缺乏精确的参考系统。这阻碍了使用的地方作为集成键，并代表了一个真正的研究挑战，在信息语义。研究需要探索不同的地方概念的基础和身份标准，使他们在可计算的语言，可用于注释数据区分，从而奠定了基础，以建立地方referencesystem.In以前的工作，我建议，地方应被视为媒体的遏制由人类引用的行为的社会公约的基础上感知的启示。在奖学金期间，我将使相关的地方概念区分在一个正式的猫头鹰类型学根据其潜在的感知启示。我还将重新制定基于负担能力的地方定义的想法，并在一篇文章中发表主要论点。

In order to realize long term visions such as Al Gore´s Digital Earth, we require a better way to semantically integrate the available heterogeneous data sources. For integration purposes, one needs to find common references for key terms in the data. Since most digital information has some explicit or implicit spatial reference, it seems obvious to use it as integration key. But this is only possible if spatial references can be identified and mapped onto one another. However, humans primarily use places, such as markets, as spatial references, while current geographic information systems (GIS) as well as web locator services, such as gazetteers, are based on locations understood as geodetic coordinates. Since most of human spatial discourse happens in terms of place, not space, current GIS systems and web locator practices seem partially ill-conceived. We follow human geographers like Tuan and Relph in arguing that place and location, even though often used interchangeably in everyday speech, denote very different categories. In particular, places often lack precise reference systems. This hampers the use of places as integration keys and represents a genuine research challenge in information semantics. Research is required that explores the fundaments and identity criteria of different place concepts, makes them distinguishable in a computable language that can be used to annotate data, and thus lays the ground to build place reference systems.In former work, I have suggested that places should be conceived as media of containment referenced by humans in an act of social convention based on perceived affordances. During the fellowship, I will make relevant place concepts distinguishable in a formal OWL typology according to their underlying perceived affordances. I will also reformulate the idea of affordance-based place definition and publish major strands of argument in an article.