1. Richard Waldinger et al., Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI
International. An application of deductive inference to coordinate
multiple information sources where geographical inference was an important component
and the ADL Gazetteer was one of the most frequently invoked sources. Other
sources included the CIA World Factbook, the DAML Semantic Web, satellite imagery,
and selected English text.
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2. Matthew Laurenson, The Horticulture and Food Research Institute
of New Zealand, Mt Albert Research Center, New Zealand. An application
to create a set of "data brokers" for various kinds of spatial data,
such as weather data and digital elevation models. I wanted to create a service
that provided applications with a list of the bounding boxes of countries, and
those country's first-level administrative regions, so that users could choose
a starting point for browsing available data. My requirements perhaps differed
a little from the ADL Gazetteer in that I needed to provide the names of countries
and regions in multiple languages, and to link the system to an existing mechanism
for editing such multilingual information (ResourceServer). I used a Java SAX-based
program, much like Greg Janee's example on the ADL gazetteer protocol site,
to get an initial list of countries and bounding boxes from ADL Gazetteer.
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3. Greg B. Hill, MaPSTeDI (Mountain and Plains Spatial / Temporal
Database Initiative). The GeoMuse software allows users to view collection data
in a spatio-temporal format on accurate maps, providing quick and easy access
to species distribution and biodiversity data. The link to the ADL Gazetteer
supports placename querying functions on the client interface.
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4. Martin Doerr & Manos Papagelis (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation
for Research and Technology - Hellas & Department of Computer Science, University
of Crete). A research project with the main objective of analysing aspects of
the correctness and completeness of digital gazetteers and the impact they have
to the mapping process. We believe that our work demonstrates a relevant way
in which digital gazetteers could be used in order to add value in information
integration projects and especially where geographic names serve as critical
point of properties linkage between heterogeneous resources.
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information
To contribute additional descriptions of ADL Gazetteer Protocol applications, please send description and contact information to Linda Hill, lhill@alexandria.ucsb.edu
Last update: 2004/03/12