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   - What is Geoinformatics?​ General definitions. Linking computer representations to geographical data. General examples.   - What is Geoinformatics?​ General definitions. Linking computer representations to geographical data. General examples.
 +  - Geometries for representing the social world: points, lines and polygons. Topological relations.
   - Representing the world: putting the Earth into a computer. Location as a key property of the world.   - Representing the world: putting the Earth into a computer. Location as a key property of the world.
   - Representing the social world, part I: generation geographical reality with our laws and social arrangements. The role of boundaries. Creating (fiat) objects. The need for maintaining identity of objects of the social world.   - Representing the social world, part I: generation geographical reality with our laws and social arrangements. The role of boundaries. Creating (fiat) objects. The need for maintaining identity of objects of the social world.
-  - Geometries for representing the social world: points, lines and polygons. Topological relations. 
   - Describing the natural world, part I: assigning names, identities and (bona fide) boundaries to places and features of the world and to living beings. The inherent ambiguity of "​places"​. ​   - Describing the natural world, part I: assigning names, identities and (bona fide) boundaries to places and features of the world and to living beings. The inherent ambiguity of "​places"​. ​
   - Describing the natural world, part 2: measuring properties of the world as continuous distributions. Fields as a general data type for measuring the world.   - Describing the natural world, part 2: measuring properties of the world as continuous distributions. Fields as a general data type for measuring the world.
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-===== Main references ​===== +===== Classes ​===== 
- +  * [[intro-geoinfo-classes2015 ​Classes Summer Semester 2015]] 
-  * Werner Kuhn, [[http://​ifgi.uni-muenster.de/​~kuhn/​IJGIS%202012.pdf|"​Core concepts of spatial information for transdisciplinary research"​]]. International Journal of Geographic Information Science vol.26(12), 2012.  +  * [[intro-geoinfo-classes2016 ​| Classes ​Summer Semester 2016]]
-  * Andrew Frank,​[[http://​www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/​Courses/​Fall11/​8715/​papers/​STD12_chrono.pdf| "​Ontology for Spatio-temporal Databases"​]]. In Spatio-Temporal Databases: The Chorochronos Approach (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2520), edited by Manoulis Koubarakis and Timos Sellis, 9-78. Berlin: Springer-Verlag,​ 2003. +
-  * Antony Galton & Riichiro Mizoguchi,​[[http://​www2.warwick.ac.uk/​fac/​soc/​philosophy/​news/​seminars/​consciousness/​galtonmizoguchi-v4.pdf|"The Water Falls but the Waterfall does not Fall  : New perspectives on Objects , Processes and Events"​]]. Applied Ontology, 4(2):​71—107,​ 2009. +
-  * Karine Ferreira, Gilberto Camara, Miguel Monteiro, [[http://​www.dpi.inpe.br/​gilberto/​papers/​stalgebra_tgis.pdf|"​An algebra for spatiotemporal data: from observations to events"​]]Transactions in GIS,​18(2):​253–269,​2014. +
-  * Gilberto Camara, Max Egenhofer, Karine Ferreira, Pedro Andrade, Gilberto Queiroz, Alber Sanchez, Jim Jones, Lubia Vinhas,​[[http://​www.dpi.inpe.br/​gilberto/​papers/​camara_fields_giscience2014.pdf|"​Fields as a Generic Type for Big Spatial Data"​]]GIScience 2014 Conference. +
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-===== Additional references ===== +
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-  * Mike Goodchild, May Yuan, & Tom Cova, [[http://​www.geog.ucsb.edu/​~good/​papers/​433.pdf|Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS]]. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(3), pp.239-260, 2007. +
-  * Mike Worboys, [[http://​www.dpi.inpe.br/​gilberto/​references/​worboys_ijgis2003event.pdf|Event-oriented approaches to geographic phenomena]]. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19(1): 1-28, 2005. +
-  * Helen Couclelis, [[http://​www.dpi.inpe.br/​gilberto/​references/​couclelis_1992_objects_fields|"​People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS"​]]. In: Frank, A., Campari, I., Formentini, U. (eds.) Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space. LNCS, vol. 639. Springer, 1992. +
-  * Roberto Casati, Barry Smith, Achille C. Varzi [[http://​ontology.buffalo.edu/​smith/​articles/​fois(csv).pdf|"​Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation"​]]. From: N. Guarino (ed.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1998, pp. 77–85. +
-  * Barry Smith, Achille C. Varzi [[http://​ontology.buffalo.edu/​smith/​articles/​fiatvs.pdf|Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries]]. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60: 2 (March 2000), 401–420. +
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-===== Course 2014 ===== +
-  * [[intro-geoinfo-classes2014 ​| Classes ​2014]]+
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