An Ontology Design Pattern for Cartographic Map Scaling

David CarralDavid Carral, Simon ScheiderSimon Scheider, Krzysztof JanowiczKrzysztof Janowicz, Charles VardemanCharles Vardeman, Adila KrisnadhiAdila Krisnadhi, Pascal HitzlerPascal Hitzler

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David Carral, Simon Scheider, Krzysztof Janowicz, Charles Vardeman, Adila Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler
An Ontology Design Pattern for Cartographic Map Scaling
In Philipp Cimiano, Óscar Corcho, Valentina Presutti, Laura Hollink, Sebastian Rudolph, eds., The Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data, 10th International Conference, {ESWC} 2013, Montpellier, France. Proceedings, volume 7882 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 76--93, May 2013. Springer

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KurzfassungAbstract
The concepts of scale is at the core of cartographic abstraction and mapping. It defines which geographic phenomena should be displayed, which type of geometry and map symbol to use, which measures can be taken, as well as the degree to which features need to be exaggerated or spatially displaced. In this work, we present an ontology design pattern for map scaling using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) within a particular extension of the OWL RL profile. We explain how it can be used to describe scaling applications, to reason over scale levels, and geometric representations.
We propose an axiomatization that allows us to impose meaningful constraints on the pattern, and, thus, to go beyond simple surface semantics.
Interestingly, this includes several functional constraints currently not expressible in any of the OWL profiles. We show that for this specific scenario, the addition of such constraints does not increase the reasoning complexity which remains tractable.
Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: Wissensbasierte SystemeKnowledge-Based Systems

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_6.

@inproceedings{CSJVKH2013,
  author    = {David Carral and Simon Scheider and Krzysztof Janowicz and
               Charles Vardeman and Adila Krisnadhi and Pascal Hitzler},
  title     = {An Ontology Design Pattern for Cartographic Map Scaling},
  editor    = {Philipp Cimiano and {\'{O}}scar Corcho and Valentina Presutti and
               Laura Hollink and Sebastian Rudolph},
  booktitle = {The Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data, 10th International
               Conference, {ESWC} 2013, Montpellier, France. Proceedings},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {7882},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year      = {2013},
  month     = {May},
  pages     = {76--93},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_6}
}