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A Spatial Ontology Community of Practice

A Spatial Ontology Community of Practice. Building the World Wide World Web. SOCoP Primary Objectives. Develop & persist an online community of Users, Technologists & Researchers interested in Spatial Ontology

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A Spatial Ontology Community of Practice

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  1. A Spatial Ontology Community of Practice Building the World Wide World Web

  2. SOCoP Primary Objectives • Develop & persist an online community of Users, Technologists & Researchers interested in Spatial Ontology • Analyze, Develop & Maintain a set of core, common spatial ontologies for the Semantic Web Essentially, we need “Off-The-Shelf Spatial Ontology”!

  3. What’s the Use of Spatial Ontology? All the usual benefits of ontology • Increased spatial search capability • Integration of spatial datasets • Increased interoperability of spatial information • Reuse & Repurposing of spatial information • Gain explicit knowledge from implicit information • Bring the Web closer to Geodata Help Accelerate the World Wide World Web!

  4. …and all the UNUSUAL reasons! • 80% of all information contains a location element = integration with nearly every domain! Perhaps one of the fundamental building blocks of the Semantic Web? • Maps are a natural form of data integration • Abstraction of complex geometric reasoning from users • GIS to date mainly focuses on modeling objects; Now need to “fill in” all the relations • Go beyond quantitative reasoning; add qualitative

  5. A Picture is worth a thousand features (and the relations between them)

  6. Overload

  7. Spatial brings with it complexity Events Temporal Orientation Spatio-Temporality Processes Vague Regions Spatio-Temporality Space = Multidimensional Shape States Size Granularity Topology Mereology Scale Spatial Aggregates Positional Accuracy ….and it’s all inter-related!

  8. Which brings us to SOCoP A formal CoP potentially aligned under Federal CIO Council’s Best Practices Committee • Federal CIO Council • SICoP (use to be here) • Best Practices Committee (now we are here)

  9. Come One, Come All! First Meeting is tomorrow • Location: NGIT Colshire Building • Date: October 12th, 2006 • Time: 10:30 to 12:30 • Address: 7575 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA Right across the street from MITRE (notice qualitative spatial relation)

  10. Agenda • Introduce SOCoP • Review Draft Charter & Draft Strategic documents • Review Best Practices Committee Rules • Online Collaboration Tools (semantic wiki) • First Steps Discussion

  11. Next Steps • Best Practices meeting Monday, 10/16 • SOCoP to be accepted as formal CoP • Get on the wiki! • Get a logon and start generating content • Make call for all existing spatial ontologies & spatial models • Align with FEA GeoProfile, GeoLOB, W3C GeoXG • Analyze • Build!

  12. Visual Knowledge Semantic Wiki: Online Home of SOCoP http://vkwiki.visualknowledge.com/wiki/socop

  13. Last but not least – SOCoP Origins • DAML – Space (~2004) • OGC Geospatial Semantic Web Interoperability Experiment (2005) • Spatial Ontology for the Semantic Web Workshop • Held at NSF through SICoP • Gathered Researchers, Technologists & Users of spatial ontology to determine requirements needed for spatial ontology in the Semantic Web • 80+ attendees

  14. Attendees Government • NASA • NSF • NGA • Army • NOAA • Ordnance Survey (UK) • EPA • DHS • DoE • GSA • FGDC Industry • Oracle • SRI • NGIT-TASC • BBN Technologies • Image Matters • Thetus • Traverse Technologies • Cycorp Academic • USC-ISI • U. of Maine • U. of Leeds (UK) • Exeter U. (UK) • U. of Munster (Germany) • U. of Buffalo • U. of Wisconsin • IHMC

  15. The End - See you on the wiki! My thanks to: • Brand Niemann • Mills Davis • Kevin Backe • John Moeller • Gary Berg-Cross • Eric Little

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