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Culture boundaries in semantic web
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.Culture, being created by any and every of us, is the expression form of the society. We
easily manipulate this term in everyday life, but defining the culture brings a lot of discussions in
between scientists. The most common approach of understanding culture is from anthropologists
(Harris & Johnson, 2006; Tylor, 1871) who associate culture with the common developed complex
pattern of the society life expressed through knowledge, believes, art, morality, laws, traditions and
other features. Approaching extinct cultures all this can be found and interpreted just from
archaeological artefacts. Despite many culture definitions, the spatio-temporal aspect of culture is
brought mostly by archaeologists. All in all the culture and cultural area understandings remain very
fuzzy, though culture area is always formalized as a crispy one. Due to such fuzziness, author would
guess, there was no hurry for cultural area or boundary digitalization as it happened with other
cultural data in Europe within last decades. The cultural boundary question stayed 'taboo' in
semantic web also, that is recently developing for cultural data in order to help to represent the
meaning in a restricted sense. It is therefore in this thesis the culture boundary representation in
semantic web is analyzed