OntologWiki: SOCo P

Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) (1ZS1)

Welcome to the SOCoP Wiki on Ontolog (2F04)

Members are invited to add to the material here. (2F05)

The next planned meeting is Wed. July 21, 2010. (2F06)

Current community activities include: (2F07)

Work with USGS integrated National Map (TNM) data. The workplan for 2010: (2GKG)

a. Update on our Demo (shown at USGIF Tech Days) - "same-Place-As" service, geofeatures, etc. (2GKH)

b. Follow up from OGC GeoSemantics Summit (2GKI)

c. Plan for Fall workshop (perhaps on Oct. 26 around STIDS) (2F08)

   4-5 topics were suggested by the GeoSemantics Summit.
     1.	GeoSPARQL (Xavier)
     2.	Demo
     3.	Reference Model
     4.	Best Practice examples – NGA, Batemen, etc.
     5.	Value Proposition    (2F09)

d. The community may do a paper for STIDS (2F0A)

e. Coordination on ISO/IEC JTC1/ – Data Management and Interchange work (2F0B)

f. NSF grant status (2F0C)

g. OOR updates (2F0D)

For more information see the minutes of the June meeting on the SOCoP forum. (2F0E)

For older information on SOCoP see: http://semanticommunity.wik.is/Spatial_Ontology_Community_of_Practice. For information on meetings see SocopMeetingpage. This includes links to information on upcoming meetings, agendas and meeting minutes (1ZS2)

The Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) was established in October of 2006. SOCoP was origninally chartered as a Community of Practice under the Best Practices Committee of the Federal CIO Council with a purpose of: (27HE)

Fostering collaboration among researchers, technologists & users of spatial knowledge representations and reasoning towards the development of spatial ontologies for use by all in the Semantic Web and (27HF)

Support for open collaboration and open standards for increased interoperability of spatial data across government as a collaborative network to help achieve greater levels of geospatial interoperability over that presently available. (27FX)

As stated in its Charter, the purpose of SOCoP is to foster collaboration among researchers, technologists, and users of spatial knowledge representations and reasoning towards the development of a set of core, common spatial ontologies for use by all communities connected across a Semantic Web. SOCoP will increase the understanding, development, and use of spatial ontology and semantic tools and capabilities. (27FY)

SOCoP is a "Networked" community and is positioned as a community effort for spatial ontology and semantic initiatives. It also has leadership to bring together others in the larger geospatial, IT, and scientific communities. (27FZ)

One goal of SOCoP is to reach out to these communities to broaden the Network and expand the sphere of influence. (27G0)

SOCoP Meetings (27G1)