Issues and Challenges

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Issues and Challenges
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Issues and Challenges

• Adding historical data
• Performance
• Licensing
• Improving the Geoparser
• General Issues

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Whens a Feature a Feature?
Plus the temporal dimension!
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Feature Typing

• Is the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus flexible
  enough?
• Does it make sense for HE/FE?
• Are there alternatives?
• Issues relating particularly to admin boundaries
• Lack of comprehensive compendium of modern and
  historical geographies

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Performance - the art of the possible

• Need to investigate different architectures
• Always want responses faster but how fast should
  we expect a response?
• What are the acceptable parameters for response
  times?
• Are clients/users prepared to wait longer for
  answers to more complex queries?

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Data Licensing

• HE/FE only?
• Additional data and licensing
• What additional data should be in the gazetteer?
• What restrictions are there on usage?
• If specific data are felt to be needed, who
  should pay?

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Geoparser

• Do we want / need a Geoparser?
• Technical aspects
• Improving textual analysis placename
  disambiguation
• Improving tools to assist in document indexing
  and metadata creation
• Improving general performance

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General Issues

• How do we convey the complexity of what is being
  attempted to the novice?
• How do we improve interfaces for reference use?
• How do we optimise machine2machine negotiations
  sensibly (dont want queries of the form, Give
  me all the features for England!!!!) ?
• What protocols should we adopt?

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Specific Issues

• How to deal with variant names?
• Data validation/quality assurance issues?
• Confidence in answers provided
• Provenance / authority of data used to populate
  geoXwalk
• Primary name
• Multiple feature typing
• Others????