The role of space and time for knowledge organization on the Semantic Web
Semantic WebPublished 1 January 2010
Krzysztof Janowicz
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This paper argues for a unified view combining a spatial, temporal, and thematic component of space and time for knowledge organization, representation, and reasoning on the Semantic Web.
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Space and time have not received much attention on the Semantic Web so far. While their importance has been recognized recently, existing work reduces them to simple latitude-longitude pairs and time stamps. In contrast, we argue that space and time
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