Modelling the City: Formal Ontology and Spatial Humanities

This book focuses on European towns and cities, analysing the opportunities and limitations of modelling of urban space. It is strongly recommended to readers interested in the linked open data approach to research, data standards in Digital Humanities, urban planning, and old maps.

Wieslawa Duzy is assistant professor at the Department of Historical Atlas at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also part of a project at the Faculty of History, ＂People, Places, and Events＂ of the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include social history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, domain ontologies in the Humanities and spatial historical databases.