A New Look at Geography of the World
The rapid expansion of Web content has raised numerous concerns relating to reliable and meaningful information delivery. What users actually need is information that suits the task and context at hand, from a reliable knowledge source, with an assurance of information objectivity and integrit...
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| Format: | E-Article |
| Language: | English |
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IPSI BgD
2016
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13274/7/A%20New%20Look%20at%20Geography%20of%20the%20World%20%28abstract%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13274/ http://ipsitransactions.org/journals/papers/tir/2016jan/p4.pdf |
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| Institution: | Universiti Malaysia Sarawak |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | The rapid expansion of Web content
has raised numerous concerns relating to reliable
and meaningful information delivery. What users
actually need is information that suits the task and
context at hand, from a reliable knowledge source,
with an assurance of information objectivity and
integrity. In this respect, most of the numerous
web sites that offer geographical information have,
serious drawbacks: Often, advertisements are
intermixed. It is hard to tell if information is slanted
or censored. Facts presented are usually taken
from one single source and not checked against
others. Also, most information is of numeric
nature. This is particularly true of databases like
the one provided by the UN, the Worldbank,
Wolfram Alpha, DBpedia, etc. A modest mixture of
textual information and a selection of pictures are
found in Factbook, Wikipedia, Britannica or
Factfish, and maps are employed as in Open Street
View, Google Street View, or Geonames. However,
cultural or country-specific issues are never
addressed. We have started what we believe is the
first serious attempt to provide a site that tries to
overcome some of those weaknesses in
geographyoftheworld.org. Without reinventing the
wheel, i.e. using information from various sources
as far as copyright issues permit, we are building a
site that beyond presenting numerical data we try
to consolidate and verify such data and we dig
deep into the hearts of countries by mentioning
cultural aspects, stories typical for a certain region
and a range of pictures with solid description
showing the uniqueness of parts of the world. |
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