2007 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, CA
1334: Building Ontologies for Indigenous Geographic
Knowledge
Tuesday, 4/17/07, from 12:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Description:
Indigenous Geographic Knowledge can be represented, or misrepresented,
in GISs, ontologies, dictionaries, qualitative analysis software,
and in many other ways. This session includes papers on field elicitation
of indigenous geographic knowledge, qualitative and mixed methods
for indigenous knowledge representation, feature extraction, and
other aspects of ontologies for knowledge representation.
Organizers:David M. Mark - University at Buffalo,
Renee Sieber - McGill University
Chair: Renee Sieber
Participants:
David Stea, Professor Emeritus - Center for Global Justice, Mexico
Abstract: Toward a
Theoretical Basis for Ethnophysiography
David M. Mark - Geography, University at Buffalo
Jin-kyu Jung - Geography, University at Buffalo
Abstract: Using Qualitative
and Mixed Methods to Represent Information About Indigenous Geographic
Concepts
Gaurav Sinha - University at Buffalo, The State University of
New York
David M. Mark, Professor - University at Buffalo, The State University
of New York
Abstract: Extraction,
Characterization, and Classification of Topographic Eminences
Christopher Wellen - McGill University
Renee E Sieber, Phd - McGill University
Abstract: Indigenous
Spatial Ontology Application
Discussant: Werner Kuhn - University of Muenster
