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Duckham, M., Worboys, M. (2007). Automated Geographical Information Fusion and Ontology Alignment. In: Belussi, A., Catania, B., Clementini, E., Ferrari, E. (eds) Spatial Data on the Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69878-4_6
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