COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OKAN FISTIKOĞLU

Offered to

Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis) (English)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ENGLISH)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ENGLISH)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM) (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

Geographic hypermedia systems include geospatial information from diverse sources. Meaningful access and utilization of such information is materialized only with semantic
integration and proper documentation through ontologies. The present work presents a unified view of important research subdomains tasks related to geosemantics and ontologies, (as
formal representations of geographic knowledge), such as ontology engineering, extraction of semantic information and ontology integration. Although there is a great degree of recent
literature in the field, differences in (a) perspective purpose, (b) the primary information available and (c) the methodologies and tools used, compose unrelated approaches that have
not been put in the overall context. Therefore, it is extremely difficult for the wider audience to understand the difference and the applicability of available approaches in a given context.
An attempt is made to draw the overall picture in order to assist users in defining their problem, selecting an appropriate approach and successfully undertaking a geosemantics or
ontology-based task.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Semantically-Aware Systems: Extraction of Geosemantics,
Ontology Engineering, and Ontology Integration
Emmanuel Stefanakis, Michael P. Peterson,
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006
ISBN: 9783540342373
Multidimensional Geographic Information Science
Jonathan Raper
CRC, 2000
ISBN: 0748405062
Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination
in Contemporary American Culture
Brian Jarvis
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998
ISBN: 031221345X

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Projects and presentations

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

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Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

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Office Hours

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Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

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