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twelve individually named dormitories are clustered into Presidents Park.
Students of all linguistic backgrounds commonly refer to this area by this
name, because of its natural association for a set of buildings which are
geographically co-located, functionally equivalent, and carry thematically
similar names, such as Jefferson, Roosevelt and Truman. Because of its
large population of students, references to Presidents Park would be a
common cluster term identified in the operational use of the localized
gazetteer.
Figure 3 : Map Detail from George Mason University, Fairfax campus. Note the Residence
Hall complex along Presidents Park Drive, comprised of buildings numbered 85 through
98. Building 48 is Research I. Building 56 is Student Union Building II (GMU 2011)
For an effective localized gazetteer, the association of University buildings
to their contents should be captured. Reference to a known location inside
a named building is a common means to locate oneself. The data model
shows this attribute as “Contains_ …” ( T able 2 ) . As an example, a Univer-
sity building named Research I (shown in Figure 2 ) contains, besides
offices and classrooms, the following entities:
 
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