Entities on social systems, such as users on Twitter, and images on Flickr, are at the core of many interesting applications: they can be ranked in search results, recommended to ...
The field of information retrieval has witnessed over 50 years of research on retrieval methods for metadata descriptions and controlled indexing languages, the prototypical exam...
We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...
The management of moving objects has been intensively studied in the recent years. A wide and increasing range of database applications has to deal with spatial objects whose posi...
Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML-based language for the markup, storage, and exchange of geospatial data. It provides a rich geospatial vocabulary and allows flexible doc...