Subjectivity and Objectivity in Urban Knowledge Representation

Antonia Cataldo, Valerio Cutini, Valerio Di Pinto, Antonio M. Rinaldi

2014

Abstract

The question of subjectivity and objectivity of information is an important open issue in the knowledge engineering research community. In the context of space representation, they have been traditionally considered competing themes in the study of places, particularly in urban ones. This is highlighted by the distance, in terms of cultural training and operational approach, between the professionals of the city: urban planners and urban anthropologists. The growth in modeling capabilities allows a quantitative study of a city but information about the meanings of space elements are often not taken into account. Starting from this basic assumption, our paper aim is to give a novel point of view to integrate subjectivity and objectivity in an operational model. Space Syntax, as a theory and a methodology, is used as a tool to study the objectivity of the urban space. Ontologies, as an approach and a method to formally represent knowledge, is used to provide Space Syntax with the subjectivity of the same spaces.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cataldo A., Cutini V., Di Pinto V. and M. Rinaldi A. (2014). Subjectivity and Objectivity in Urban Knowledge Representation . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-048-2, pages 411-417. DOI: 10.5220/0005152404110417

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir14,
author={Antonia Cataldo and Valerio Cutini and Valerio Di Pinto and Antonio M. Rinaldi},
title={Subjectivity and Objectivity in Urban Knowledge Representation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={411-417},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005152404110417},
isbn={978-989-758-048-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014)
TI - Subjectivity and Objectivity in Urban Knowledge Representation
SN - 978-989-758-048-2
AU - Cataldo A.
AU - Cutini V.
AU - Di Pinto V.
AU - M. Rinaldi A.
PY - 2014
SP - 411
EP - 417
DO - 10.5220/0005152404110417