The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies

Tambassi, Timothy

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64033-4

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“…The map which accompanies the textual description and is already visible in the facsimile reproduction, is presented again in an enlarged view and shown side by side with a contemporary map where corresponding places are geolocated ( Figure 15 – Figure 16 ). Even if we are aware of the arbitrariness of juxtaposing representations reflecting such different theoretical conceptualizations of space and its representations, this practice presents itself as inevitable as it is also the case for all those digital projects in archaeology and other disciplines focusing on the ancient world where a comparison between ancient and modern geography is required ( Tambassi, 2018 , 37).…”

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Modelling the Archipelago: Corfu as a Case Study for a Digital Edition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum

Bessi,

Fusi

2024

Open Res Europe

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The Liber Insularum by Cristoforo Buondelmonti can be considered the first guide to the Greek islands, each of them described by a textual paragraph and illustrated by color maps, in a format which gave rise to the new literary genre of Isolaria.” Mapping the Aegean: Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum” is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project aimed at the study of this book. This paper illustrates the application of Cadmus, a structured content management tool, to the creation of a digital edition of the Liber and to do this, we focus on the text and map of Corfu as a case study. After a historical introduction on the author and his work and the presentation of the project, we explain why we chose to use this tool and its main characteristics, and we offer a concrete example of its application to the material pertaining to the description of Corfu by showing its frontend output.

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Modelling the Archipelago: Corfu as a Case Study for a Digital Edition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum

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Fusi

2024

Open Res Europe

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“…Timothy Tambassi, in his Preface to the book "The Philosophy of GIS" [13], pointed out that the literature on GIS is heterogeneous and scattered, primarily because of the multiple branches of knowledge that use, manage, and create geographic information. This is also true for geosemantics, whose literature configures a conceptual 'forest' of issues, topics, technologies, methodologies, challenges, and solutions where it is easy to loose orientation.…”

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Implicit, Formal, and Powerful Semantics in Geoinformation

Bordogna

Fugazza

d’Aragona

et al. 2021

IJGI

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Distinct, alternative forms of geosemantics, whose classification is often ill-defined, emerge in the management of geospatial information. This paper proposes a workflow to identify patterns in the different practices and methods dealing with geoinformation. From a meta-review of the state of the art in geosemantics, this paper first pinpoints “keywords” representing key concepts, challenges, methods, and technologies. Then, we illustrate several case studies, following the categorization into implicit, formal, and powerful (i.e., soft) semantics depending on the kind of their input. Finally, we associate the case studies with the previously identified keywords and compute their similarities in order to ascertain if distinguishing methodologies, techniques, and challenges can be related to the three distinct forms of semantics. The outcomes of the analysis sheds some light on the diverse methods and technologies that are more suited to model and deal with specific forms of geosemantics.

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“…In Western scientific thought, ontology is the philosophy of reality that addresses the question, “what kinds of things are there in the world?” There are a wide variety of ontological positions, from idealism (ultimate reality is human consciousness), to materialism (only matter is real), or agnosticism (the true nature of the world cannot be known) (Benton and Craib, 2001). Within a discipline or field of study, ontologies may be implicit and assumed, or much debated and researched (notably, in geography and computer science (Cablitz, 2001; Liu et al , 2017; Tambassi, 2017)).…”

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Exploring disaster ontologies from Chinese and Western perspectives: commonalities and nuances

Goodall

Chmutina

et al. 2021

DPM

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PurposeThis paper explores ontological assumptions of disasters and introduces some concepts from Chinese disaster scholarship. The authors suggest an approach to explore and engage with different ontologies of disaster without direct comparison, that can further interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration.Design/methodology/approachBy reviewing the academic literature and focussing on two recent key translational texts by Chinese scholars, the authors show what can be revealed about ontology and the potential influence on thinking about human-environment interactions and disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy.FindingsIn Chinese disaster studies, the goal of a “harmonious human-environment relationship” is a foundational concept. There is a clear hierarchical and ontological distinction between humans and the natural ecological system viewed as an integrated whole, with underlying rules that can be discovered by scientific research to enable management of a harmonious relationship.Practical implicationsThe authors suggest a practical way to begin with the following questions: What is the societal goal/aim? What is nature? What is society? How do these interact to create disasters? And what are the implications for DRR research and practice? The authors also demonstrate the importance of probing and understanding the underlying ontologies that are the foundation for theory, which in turn is the foundation for policy and action.Originality/valueIdentification of ontological differences in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research collaborations and working across these boundaries is challenging and rarely questioned. Yet, as demonstrated here, considering ontological assumptions of the causes of disaster, within and across cultures and disciplines, is essential for collaboration and further research.

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The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies

Cited by 10 publications

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Modelling the Archipelago: Corfu as a Case Study for a Digital Edition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum

Modelling the Archipelago: Corfu as a Case Study for a Digital Edition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum

Implicit, Formal, and Powerful Semantics in Geoinformation

Exploring disaster ontologies from Chinese and Western perspectives: commonalities and nuances

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