The present paper provides a review of two research topics that are central to geospatial
semantics: information modeling and elicitation. The first topic deals with the development of …

Quantification of human impact on past forest ecosystems becomes more challenging as
one goes deeper into the past. This is primarily due to a scarcity of appropriate source …

This paper aims to present and discuss the method of geocoding historical place names
from historic maps that cannot be georeferenced in the GIS environment. This concerns …

The paper discusses the problem of diachronic criteria of identity for historic localities. We
argue that such criteria are needed not just for the sake of ontological clarity but also are …

The arising of smart cities has shown the limitations of the traditional attempts to understand
and characterize cities. The smart city marks a relevant step in the evolution of urban …

The notion of affordance remains elusive, notwithstanding its importance for the
representation of agency, cognition, and behaviors. This paper lays down a foundation for …

Distinct, alternative forms of geosemantics, whose classification is often ill-defined, emerge
in the management of geospatial information. This paper proposes a workflow to identify …

The notion of territory plays a major role in human and social sciences as it allows to anchor
in a spatio-temporal context the facts studied in humanities. Representation of territories as …

Time merits careful treatment in the digital humanities because it is one of the most
fundamental constituents of the world. In this paper we bring up for discussion foundational …

When entering information about changes of settlements in time into a database, we are
dealing with direct facts from historical sources and with interpretations. The source …