scholarly journals Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 164-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross S. Purves ◽  
Paul Clough ◽  
Christopher B. Jones ◽  
Mark H. Hall ◽  
Vanessa Murdock
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information Retrieval ◽  
Spatial Search

scholarly journals Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross S. Purves ◽  
Paul Clough ◽  
Christopher B. Jones ◽  
Mark H. Hall ◽  
Vanessa Murdock
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information Retrieval ◽  
Spatial Search

scholarly journals Geographic Information Retrieval and the World Wide Web: A Match Made in Electronic Space

1997 ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Johnson ◽  
Myke Gluck
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
Query Languages ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
The World

This article looks at the access to geographic information through a review of information science theory and its application to the WWW. The two most common retrieval systems are information and data retrieval. A retrieval system has seven elements: retrieval models, indexing, match and retrieval, relevance, order, query languages and query specification. The goal of information retrieval is to match the user's needs to the information that is in the system. Retrieval of geographic information is a combination of both information and data retrieval. Aids to effective retrieval of geographic information are: query languages that employ icons and natural language, automatic indexing of geographic information, and standardization of geographic information. One area that has seen an explosion of geographic information retrieval systems (GIR's) is the World Wide Web (WWW). The final section of this article discusses how seven WWW GIR's solve the the problem of matching the user's information needs to the information in the system.

A critical evaluation of ontology languages for geographic information retrieval on the Internet

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alia I. Abdelmoty ◽  
Philip D. Smart ◽  
Christopher B. Jones ◽  
Gaihua Fu ◽  
David Finch
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Geographic Information Retrieval ◽  
Ontology Languages
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