The design and implementation of SPIRIT: A spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 717-745

  Purves, Ross S ^a   Clough, Paul ^b   Jones, Christopher B ^c   Arampatzis, Avi ^d,f   Bucher, Benedicte ^e   Finch, David ^c,g   Fu, Gaihua ^c,h   Joho, Hideo ^b,i   Syed, Awase Khirni ^a,j   Vaid, Subodh ^c   Yang, Bisheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^j International Institute of Information Technology   (India)

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Author keywords

Geographical information retrieval; Geographical ontology; Information retrieval; Spatial indexing; Spatial relevance ranking

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; DESIGN; GIS; INTERNET; REAL TIME; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34347244570     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810601169840     Document Type: Article

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