Urban Ontologies : the Towntology Prototype towards Case Studies

Chantal Berdier (1) , Catherine Roussey (2)

1 EVS-EDU - Environnement Ville Société — Environnements & Dispositifs Urbains
2 LIRIS - Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information

This article describes our work realised since the beginning of the Towntology project, which aim was the development of urban ontologies. First of all our work deals with the comprehension of what is an ontology and their uses. Thanks to this prior studies, we develop a prototype and 3 urban ontologies: road system, urban mobility, urban renewal. After describing our result, we synthesize the main difficulties encountered during the development of these ontologies.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Chantal Berdier, Catherine Roussey. Urban Ontologies : the Towntology Prototype towards Case Studies. Ontologies for Urban Development: Interfacing Urban Information Systems, Nov 2006, University of Geneva, Switzerland. pp.143-156, ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-71976-2_13⟩. ⟨hal-01512667⟩