Identity of historical localities in information systems1

Garbacz, Paweł; Szady, Bogumił; Ławrynowicz, Agnieszka

doi:10.3233/ao-200235

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“…Other environment-related terms are also of growing importance in formal ontology and other domains. Examples of such terms include "niche" (Smith & Varzi, 1999;Keet, 2006;Corris, 2020), "habitat" (Bennett, 2010), "Umwelt" (Ortmann & Michels, 2011), "place" (Jordan et al, 1998;Scheider & Janowicz, 2014), and "locality" (Garbacz et al, 2018(Garbacz et al, , 2020.…”

Section: Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affordances and their ontological core

Toyoshima

Barton

Éthier

2022

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The notion of affordance remains elusive, notwithstanding its importance for the representation of agency, cognition, and behaviors. This paper lays down a foundation for an ontology of affordances by elaborating the idea of “core affordance” which would serve as a common ground for explaining existing diverse conceptions of affordances and their interrelationships. For this purpose, it analyzes M. T. Turvey’s dispositional theory of affordances in light of a formal ontology of dispositions. Consequently, two kinds of so-called “core affordances” are proposed: specific and general ones. Inspired directly by Turvey’s original account, a specific core affordance is intimately connected to a specific agent, as it is reciprocal with a counterpart effectivity (which is a disposition) of this agent within the agent-environment system. On the opposite, a general core affordance does not depend on individual agents; rather, its realization involves an action by an instance of a determinate class of agents. The utility of such core affordances is illustrated by examining how they can be leveraged to formalize other major accounts of affordances. Additionally, it is briefly outlined how core affordances can be employed to analyze three notions that are closely allied with affordances: the environment, image schemas, and intentions.

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Section: Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affordances and their ontological core

Toyoshima

Barton

Éthier

2022

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“…Those that do exist might not be fully applicable to urban places as these behave in a different way. This behavior is determined by the ontological assumptions researchers make when deciding if a place maintains or loses its identity through change [5]. A definition of place is an important part of these assumptions.…”

Section: Design Challengesmentioning

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Developing an Urban Gazetteer

Ducatteeuw

2021

Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

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This talk discusses the development of a spatiotemporal data model for an urban gazetteer. The function of gazetteers is to obtain descriptions uniquely identifying places referred to in discourse. Often, they are lists of places containing place name, feature type and geographical extent. Contemporary digital gazetteers (e.g. World Historical Gazetteer and Pleiades) are valuable tools for geographical knowledge of the past and the structuring of humanities data. However, scholars and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) specialists often require information about entities on an intra-city scale. This presentation explores the model and implementation of an urban gazetteer using CIDOC CRM as a top-level ontology. The model will closely follow international gazetteer standards (i.e. Linked Places Format) in order to ensure interoperability with other gazetteer datasets. To move towards a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) approach, humanities data from the urban gazetteer will be published as Linked Open Data (LOD) and searchable via (Geo)SPARQL.

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