CONTEXT IN GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION How the notion of formalized context can be incorporated into a geographic ontology

Context is a key issue in Knowledge Representation, nevertheless, a formal account of what context is has not yet been agreed on. In the current research we attempt to formalize context as a set of dimensions and their value sets. We focus on the geo-spatial domain and we are particularly interested in incorporating this formalization of context into a geographic ontology. Therefore, we propose that context of concepts or categories in an ontology or a categorization schema, should come as a combination of dimensions that imposes limitations under which ontological information is given specific meaning