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defines concepts that are specialized within a given context or a specific
usage. Diagram on the
figure 1
is giving background for defining global
place names ontology. Place names are interdisciplinary problem that join
different ontologies.
Figure 1:
Essential entities of toponym.
ISO geographic information standards are using feature catalogues and
application schema in description of semantics of geographic information.
This kind of approach corresponds to the application ontology level.
Ontological approach of the problem support interoperability across
toponym language, feature type, feature shape, feature position and time. It
would allow association of concepts across applications and domains, and
give background for solving problem of place name as complex problem
that is defined in more disciplines.
Today interactions on the web of data are based on application principles,
and sharing data among applications can be done only if it is explicitly
defined (developed) in each application. Semantic web using domain
ontologies interpretation of data is giving opportunity of more improved
sharing the data trough web. Using ontological approach of data and
Semantic Web, the heterogeneous data can be directly accessed through web
by different applications. A description of heterogeneous data in different
ontologies is making basic definition of concepts implemented in Semantic
Web. Ontology approach is scalable in the sense of expanding existing
