There has been significant progress transforming semi-structured data about places into knowledge graphs that can be used in a wide variety of geographic information systems such as digital gazetteers or geographic information retrieval systems. For instance, in addition to information about events, actors, and objects, DBpedia contains data about hundreds of thousands of places from Wikipedia ...

Official statistics have great potential to generate knowledge and serve as basis for decisions taken by many actors in society; however, the potential is grossly under-utilised because many people do not know about statistics, do not care about them and do not understand them. This paper highlights an innovative tool for exploring geographic statistics, which has been developed by the Universi...

With the phenomenal growth of the WWW, rich data sources on many different subjects have become available online. Some of these sources store daily facts that often involve textual geographic descriptions. These descriptions can be perceived as indirectly georeferenced data e.g., addresses, telephone numbers, zip codes and place names. Under this perspective, the Web becomes a large geospatial ...

The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS) began accepting whole-body donations for scientific research and educational purposes under the Anatomical Gift Act in 2008. Research conducted with donated whole bodies involves studies taphonomy human decomposition, including reconstructing postmortem interval. Following skeletal elements of all donors are collected, cleaned, permanently...