中文摘要：

本体的构建方法多种多样,但是有些不够规范,不规范的本体非但起不到语义共享的作用,反而会阻碍语义网的发展.本文基于《测绘学叙词表》及《测绘与地理主题词表》构建了地名本体并利用本体构建工具Proté9é3.2进行了可视化.然后对所构建的地名本体进行了完整性、可扩展性及一致性检验,检验结果表明所构建的地名本体具有健壮性,并且符合相应的标准.最后,基于Wordnet设计了地名本体维护的具体思路和方法,为地名本体的更新与升级做好准备.

英文摘要：

There are many kinds of ontology construction techniques, but some of them are nonstandard. Nonstandard ontology can＇t play the semantic sharing role at all. Instead, it will hinder the development of the semantic web. In the paper, the toponym ontology was constructed based on Topography The- saurus and Topography and Geographic Subject Headings, and visualized by the ontology construction tool, Protege3.2. After that, the toponyrn ontology was inspected on three aspects, which are integrality, extensibility and consistency, and the results indicated that it could be strong and consistent with the corresponding standards. In the end, the authors designed the idiographic technique of maintenance based on Wordnet, which is ready for the update and upgrade of the toponym ontology.