My research investigates how to model the meaning of geospatial information and its changes across contexts. Relevant contexts are human activities, professional disciplines, natural languages, and information communities.

With MUSIL, I pursue this question in the technical settings of information system interoperability and usability. Using methods from information science, cognitive science, and mathematics, we investigate

• how geospatial information can be annotated to facilitate discovery,
• how information sources can be integrated in decision making, and
• how data and operations can be translated from one context to another.

Some of our research issues and our approaches are surveyed in:
Kuhn, W. (2005). "Geospatial Semantics: Why, of What, and How?" Journal on Data Semantics,
Special Issue on Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems, Spring 2005, Springer LNCS 3534.