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Modeling and presenting incomplete and uncertain data on historical settlement units
Author(s) -
Myrda Grzegorz,
Szady Bogumił,
Ławrynowicz Agnieszka
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transactions in gis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9671
pISSN - 1361-1682
DOI - 10.1111/tgis.12609
Subject(s) - timeline , settlement (finance) , schema (genetic algorithms) , computer science , human settlement , event (particle physics) , data mining , information retrieval , data science , geography , archaeology , world wide web , physics , quantum mechanics , payment
When entering information about changes of settlements in time into a database, we are dealing with direct facts from historical sources and with interpretations. The source information generally relates to an event or situation at a specific time. This means that we only fill in the parts of the timeline with data objects called (partial) manifestations; however, lack of data does not mean that settlement did not exist. It would take a lot of time to interpret and enter missing information manually. In this article we present a database schema, database procedures and algorithms to generate aggregated settlement unit manifestations in an automated way from their partial manifestations. As a result, it is possible to obtain a continuous history of a given settlement so as to present it on a map.