Place Vocabulary

This repository contains a vocabulary of nouns used to describe places, such as river, restaurant, mountain, and park. The vocabulary is the result of a merge between the GeoNames Ontology, the DBpedia Ontology, and Wordnet, and includes both natural and man-made place types. Each term is linked to the URIs in the data sources.

Details:

• Current version: 0.2
• Formats: JSON, CSV, XLSX
• Content: 1,876 nouns

Research areas:

• Geographic information science
• Natural language processing
• Geo-semantics
• Linked data

Reference

A. Ballatore & B. Adams (2015) Extracting Place Emotions from Travel Blogs, AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lisbon, June 2015, pp. 1–5. PDF

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Open Knowledge: http://opendefinition.org

Author & Maintainer

Dr Andrea Ballatore http://aballatore.space

Last update: Oct 2019