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Welcome to the SOCoP Wiki on Ontolog (2F04)
Members are invited to add to the material to the pages here after logging in. (2F05)
The next SOCoP meeting is Wed April 11, 2012. We now have a new Teleconference # (thanks to Ontolog) which is: (2Z3B)
1 (206) 402-0100 (long distance cost will apply) ... [ backup nbr: (415) 671-4335 ] and on the prompt you should enter PIN: 141184# (2Z3C)
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This wiki will reflect will provide updates on meetings and other activities as they become available. (2K08)
See socop/Workshop_2010_12_03 for an overview of the Fall 2010 workshop.Slides and notes are now available. See also http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOCoP/Workshop_Agenda_2010_12_03 for the agenda, speaker info, some abstracts and slides. (2J99)
Registration has obviously ended but was at: http://www.eventbrite.com/createinvite?eid=994112417&invite=538989 (2JD3)
A list of those attending is at http://ontolog.cim3.net/work/SOCoP/Workshops/SOCoP-workshop_20101203/Attendance%20for%203nd%20Annual%20SOCoP%20Workshop%2010-30%20Th.doc (2K0U)
The revised minutes from recent meetings are now posted and can be retrieved via the SocopMeetingpage. (2F06)
Current community activities include: (2F07)
Work with USGS integrated National Map (TNM) data. (2KPG)
The workplan for 2012 (2GKG)
OOR updates (2F0D)
For more information see the minutes of the various 2011 and 12 meetings on the SOCoP forum. (2F0E)
For older information on SOCoP see: http://semanticommunity.wik.is/Spatial_Ontology_Community_of_Practice. (2JNV)
For information on meetings see SocopMeetingpage. This includes links to information on upcoming meetings, agendas and meeting minutes (1ZS2)
Goals :The Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) was established to foster 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)
SOCoP supports 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)
- see SocopMeetingpage for information on upcoming meetings, agendas and meeting minutes (27G2)
A Brief History of SOCoP on SOCoP/History (2JNS)
Reference Material on SOCoP/Ontology(ies) and ontological engineering See SOCoP/GeospatialOntologies (2JCO)
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SOCoP Projects (27G6)
SOCoP encourages collaborative efforts. (27HD)
One example concerns the use of USGS data. For more information see NationalMap_data (27G7)
For more information, contact the SOCoP Executive Secretary - Dr. Gary Berg-Cross via email to: gbergcross [at] gmail.com (27CO)
4 page Introduction to the SOCoP Wiki (39FY)
Some members asked for some guidance for adding material to the Wiki and being productive. (39FZ)
The following are Gary Berg-Cross's suggestions on this, which are admitly are rudimentary. They are divided into 4 basic sections: (39G0)
1. Login (39G1)
2. Basic Editing of existing material. (39G2)
3. Adding pages (39G3)
4. A start on Graphics and links to files stored on the CIM3 server (39G4)
I’ve tried to keep it short to get people started. (39G5)
1. Creating a Login and Logging (39G6)
If you go to the SOCoP.org or any of the ontolog sites we will see on the upper right a” Login (create account). (39G7)
If you don’t have an account or have forgotten it the create account takes you to a page where you can create a login and password pair. (39G8)
Username: Password: (39G9)
You have confirm that you are a human user by filling out the Confirmation box with the #-letter combinations you see. (39GA)
You may then login to the system and edits SOCoP and other Ontolog pages. After you login you will see in the upper right of the page your login name such as: (39GB)
garybc (preferences | logout) (39GC)
2. Editing pages (39GD)
You edit pages by going to the bottom left of a page and click on the Edit text of the page (39GE)
You will see that a scrollable Editing box will appear with the text and graphics of a page. (39GF)
You edit in here and either then: (39GG)
If you have time it is good to Preview first since, if you are like me, some of the formatting may be off. You are also given the option of Summarize changes by adding words to identify the nature of the change for other people visiting and editing the site. (39GJ)
To really format things you need to understand a few basic guidelines about text editing these: (39GK)
- Carriage returns (ie pressing the Enter key) are significant in formatting a wiki page (39HF)
- Multiple spaces and tabs are ignored use (two single-quotes) for italics, ' (three single-quotes) for bold, and '' (five single-quotes) for bold-italics. Alternatively, which I do is use html tags bold' and italic'' (39HG)
- The first (special) character entered on a line often controls the formatting of the text on that line. (39GL)
Here are the ones Peter Yim who runs the Ontolog Forum documented: (39GM)
- A blank " " space causes text to appear in a monospaced font where spaces are significant I don’t intentionally use this much or its alternative triple braces your content or the tag for monospace text (tt stands for typewriter text) (39GN)
- ":" colon causes text to be indented (39GO)
- "=" equals - followed by a space - creates a heading, a trailing "=" - preceded by a space - is required to close this out so you have say = INTEROP = as heading 1. (39GP)
- "*" asterisk creates a bulleted list (I use this a lot) (39GQ)
- "#" hash creates a numbered list (Should use this more) (39GR)
- ";" semicolon creates a definition list, a ":" colon is required subsequently on the same line Repetition of the first character on the line generally increases the indentation or emphasis so :: is doubly indented. (39GS)
- Remember to leave a single blank line between paragraphs. (39GT)
- PurpleNumbers are automatically generated for every paragraph and every item of a list. If you a line with an existing purple number you will wind up with 2 since a new one is generated. So you usually need to delete the old one first. (39GU)
One thing special about Wikis is that they have wikiwords like PurpleNumbers or BodyofKnowledge. These have 2 capitals in them and they automatically generate a link to a blank page which you get to edit. This can be a problem since many abbreviations like BoK will automatically generate a page that wasn’t planned. (39GV)
But you can “suppress” wiki formatting and linking through - by enclosing the word/phrase between the " ... " pair (of tags). I've done that on a few of the previous items mentioned above. (39GW)
3. Adding Pages (39GX)
One way to do this is with the wikiword. I’ve done this quite a bit defining things like SocopMeetingpage Another is to create a create a child page under the parent one you are on. You simply add a "/" (slash) in front of a page name, while one is on the parent page. So once I’ve created the SocopMeetings page I can make an indefinite number of month meeting pages under it For example, on my page: " SocopMeetings I could have a page developed to a particular meeting. You can see one such page at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SocopMeetingpage/SocopMeetingpage_2010_09_22 (39GY)
4. A start on Graphics and links to files stored on the CIM3 server (39GZ)
This is a non-obvious part and took me a while to learn, so I will just outline it here. (39H0)
You can’t paste a graphic to a page. You can’t just add a file like a <nowiki>PPT/nowiki> or word document to a page. (39H1)
You have to have a Webdav tool to place the file in a special folder on Peter’s file system. (39H2)
What tool you use may depend on your system and the free one that used to work for me isn’t free anymore so I had to download another one and learn it. It works well but there is a learning curve and I had Peter’s help the first 2 times. I think this would be a non-starter for the average geo-scientist or at least a turn off. (39H3)
The free tool I now use is called BitKinex and I recommend it. See http://www.bitkinex.com/download (39H4)
Assuming you get past this download and installation and learning the tool interface (and are still interested) the url for Peter’s file system is: http://ontolog.cim3.net (39H5)
In there we have a directory under: /work/SOCoP This is where we store files which we will later link to. (39H6)
BTW, You need to login to the system with something other than your personal login. (39H7)
It is username = ontolog-member (39H8)
password = ontology (39H9)
Once in you’ll see various folders I’ve set up and have files in. Essentially what you do is use Bitkinex to load a file into a folder and then copy the link for that file. You place the link onto a word by prefixing the link with a “[“ then have a space and the word or term and then close it with a “]”. (39HA)
Here is an example from the Meeting page Meeting_2011_06_15 (39HB)
If it a picture you want on the page you prefix the link with a colon. (39HC)
I more or less learned this in one session with Peter once I had downloaded a tool, but since I didn’t load files often I forgot the routine and then had to load the newer tool when the old one ‘s trial period expired. Bithex doesn’t have a trial period so I learned how to use it. (39HD)
Well that’s it for the 101 start on this. I hope that it helps….. (39HE)