Issues for Linking Geographical Open Data of GeoNames and Wikipedia

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Issues for Linking Geographical Open Data of GeoNames and Wikipedia
Authors
Masaharu Yoshioka
Noriko Kando
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-37996-3_32
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Issues for Linking Geographical Open Data of GeoNames and Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Masaharu Yoshioka and Noriko Kando.

Overview

It is now possible to use various geographical open data sources such as GeoNames and Wikipedia to construct geographic information systems. In addition, these open data sources are integrated by the concept of Linked Open Data. There have been several attempts to identify links between existing data, but few studies have focused on the quality of such links. In this paper, authors introduce an automatic link discovery method for identifying the correspondences between GeoNames entries and Wikipedia pages, based on Wikipedia category information. This method finds not only appropriate links but also inconsistencies between two databases. Based on this integration results, authors discuss the type of inconsistencies for making consistent Linked Open Data.

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Yoshioka, Masaharu; Kando, Noriko. (2012). "[[Issues for Linking Geographical Open Data of GeoNames and Wikipedia]]". Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37996-3_32.

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Yoshioka, Masaharu; Kando, Noriko. (2012). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Issues_for_Linking_Geographical_Open_Data_of_GeoNames_and_Wikipedia">Issues for Linking Geographical Open Data of GeoNames and Wikipedia</a>&quot;. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37996-3_32.