Territorial Knowledge Ontology as a Guide for the Identification of Resource of the Territory Toward Sustainability

Abstract

Representation of territorial knowledge based on the ontology is an approach which explains the nature and reasoning of this knowledge for sustainability. This research proposes an ontology of domain according to the principles for modelling an ontology. This proposed ontology is named DOTK (descriptive ontology for territorial knowledge). DOTK ontology has specialized the entities of territorial knowledge for sustainability and its aim is enhancing the sustainable knowledge of actors within industries. This ontology is a guide for identifying an operational ontology of real example. This research show that ontology of domain can assist to the identifying of tangible and intangible resources of the local territory. So, these identified resources can help the industries and territory for sustainable objectives and improve the available territorial knowledge within local or regional industries.

HHT: An Ontology to Represent Territorial Dynamics for Digital Humanities

“…Several approaches exist to represent multi-level territorial divisions. First, several country-specific ontologies have been developed (geofla 3 , igeo 4 for France, postcode 5 , osadm 6 for the United Kingdom, RAMON 7 for the NUTS nomenclature). These ontologies are limited in their use, as the concepts they define are only sufficient to represent hierarchies of a particular country.…”

“…Ontologies have been used in digital humanities due to their ability to build representation models fitting the needs of humanity researchers and to favour reusability and interoperability of the knowledge they produce [2]. When it comes to representing territories, existing ontologies focus either on representing hierarchical units [3] without representing the institutions they involve, mostly for statistical purposes, or on dynamics in regard mostly of natural resources [4]. However, properly representing historical territories involves the representation of both the established territorial hierarchies as well as actors' claims to alter them.…”