Create a large-scale digital library for geo-referenced information

Bin Zhu, Marshall Ramsey, Hsinchun Chen, Rosie V, Hauck, Tobun D. Ng, Bruce Schatz
1999 Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries - DL '99  
One of the most challenging research issues for geospatial collections is to develop techniques to support fuzzy, conceptbased, geographic information retrieval (GIR). Based on an artificial intelligence approach, this project presents a Geospatial Knowledge Representation System (GKRS) prototype system that integrates multiple multimedia (textual and image) knowledge sources to support concept-based GIR. Based on semantic network and neural network representations, GKRS loosely couples
more » ... t knowledge sources and adopts spreading activation algorithms for concept-based knowledge inferencing. Both textual analysis and image processing techniques have been employed to create textual and visual geographical knowledge structures. This project suggests a framework for developing a complete GKRS-based system and describes in detail the prototype.
doi:10.1145/313238.313445 dblp:conf/dl/ZhuRCHNS99 fatcat:ktpuqh6sandk7p6eqkzuleutji