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Papers to the reports presented at the conference "Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections" (RCDL'2011, Voronezh, 19–22 October 2011)

Integration of geographic metadata using retrospective thesaurus

D. M. Skachkov^a, O. L. Zhizhimov

^a Institute of Computing Technologies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk

Abstract: The questions, related with the development of interoperable thesaurus of geographic names, with geometric and retrospective data included in, are discussed. The basic requirements to the thesaurus are defined. An overview of existing solutions is provided and the main positions for thesaurus access profile have been formulated. The relational database schema for thesaurus data is described.

Keywords: geographical metadata; integration; retrospective geocoding; thesaurus.