Human spatial concepts, such as the concept of place, are not immediately translatable to the geometric foundations of spatial databases and information systems developed over the past 50 years. These systems typically rest on the concepts of objects and fields, both bound to coordinates, as two general paradigms of geographic representation. The match between notions of place occurring in everyday where questions and the data available to answer such questions is unclear and hinders progress in place‐based information systems. This is particularly true in novel application areas such as the Digital Humanities or speech‐based human–computer interaction, but also for location‐based services. Although this shortcoming has been observed before, we approach the challenges of relating places to information system representations with a fresh view, based on a set of core concepts of spatial information. These concepts have been proposed in information science with the intent of serving human–machine spatial question asking and answering. Clarifying the relationship of the notion of place to these concepts is a significant step toward geographically intelligent systems. The main result of the article is a demonstration that the notion of place fits existing concepts of spatial information, when these are adequately exploited and combined.

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信息科学的地方

人类空间概念，例如地方概念，不能立即转化为过去 50 年发展起来的空间数据库和信息系统的几何基础。这些系统通常基于对象和场的概念，两者都绑定到坐标，作为地理表示的两种一般范式。日常生活中发生的地点概念与可用于回答此类问题的数据之间的匹配尚不清楚，并阻碍了基于地点的信息系统的进步。在数字人文或基于语音的人机交互等新应用领域尤其如此，也适用于基于位置的服务。尽管之前已经观察到了这个缺点，但我们以全新的视角来应对将地点与信息系统表示相关联的挑战，基于一组空间信息的核心概念。这些概念是在信息科学中提出的，目的是服务于人机空间问答。阐明地点概念与这些概念的关系是朝着地理智能系统迈出的重要一步。这篇文章的主要结果是，当这些概念被充分利用和组合时，地方的概念适合现有的空间信息概念。