Places, names, and linked data modelling

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Huck, John

• Linked data aims to represent and disambiguate discrete entities with unique identifiers, but the relationships between places and their names are not always straightforward. This brief presentation describes certain issues encountered when modelling places in linked data, and proposes technological and philosophical approaches that merit further exploration.

• Date created

  2017-12-12

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Place names
  • Geospatial metadata
  • Linked data

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R34J0BB83

• License

  Attribution 4.0 International