Tales of the River Bank, First Thoughts in the Development of a Topographic Ontology
Glen Hart, Sarah Temple, Hayley Mizen, Drake Circus · 2004
This paper describes the initial thoughts and experiences of Ordnance Survey in the development of a topographical ontology. It describes the construction of a subset of a full topographical ontology, one restricted to inland water. The paper also describes our approach to the construction of such an ontology, one which attempts to maximise the ability to move shared concepts between ontologies. Lastly, it describes the issues raised when attempting to represent the ontology in DAML+OIL.