The Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) organizes workshops. Examples include Terra Cognita Workshop held at several ISWC meetings. The latest upcoming one planned will be at the ACM SIGSPatial GIS conference in Chicago. The session, called the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies (SSO) 2011, will be held on Tuesday Nov 1st. See socop/Spatial_Semantics_and_Ontologies_2011 for more information. (2UCG)
Recently we co-organized a Geo Vo_Camp_DC_2011 as a follow-up to Geo Vo_Camp _Southampton_2011,to work on near-term geographic vocabularies for Linked Data which could be a wide use. This was an opportunity to discuss geo-spatial issues to support the NSF SOCoP INTEROP project. Current community efforts are starting to develop linking ontologies to support better interoperable for Land Use. We discussed Land Use, Land Forms, Hydrology and the SWEET ontology. See details on the workshop at: http://vocamp.org/wiki/GeoVoCampDC2011 (2V3H)
Presentations included: (2V3I)
[ Orientation to VoCamps, schedule and prior efforts ] by Gary Berg-Cross (2V3P)
[ Land Use ] (Ola Ahlgvist remote presentation) {nid 2V3J} continued in afternoon by Sinha Gaurav on Landforms (2V3K)
Ontologies for Linked Spatiotemporal Data (Krzysztof Janowicz) (2V3L)
USGS Interest in Linked Data (Dalia Veranka) (2V3M)
Linked Data Geo Vocabulary Background & Review (Todd Pehle) (2V3N)
Introduction to Web-Based Ontology Engineering (Mike Lang Jr.) (2V3O)
We also host free, annual workshops on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies. These are usually held in the DC area in the Fall based on facility availability and community interest. The purpose of the workshops is to advance understanding about state of research, implementation requirements, anticipated value and future role of spatial ontologies and semantic tools in the continued growth of spatial data infrastructures. (2JWY)
There is no charge for Fall workshops and more information about SOCoP and its workshop is added to the SOCoP wiki as material is developed. (2JWZ)
The latest workshop took place Dec. 3, 2010 and was held at the USGS facility in Reston VA. For workshop material organized by morning speakers and afternoon discussions see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOCoP/Workshop_Agenda_2010_12_03. For an agenda and http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOCoP/Workshop_2010_12_03) . (2QWG)
For more information please contact Dr. Gary Berg-Cross for guidance (2J99) (2JX0)
Registration Information: http://www.eventbrite.com/createinvite?eid=994112417&invite=538989 (2JX1)
Information and presentations from the 2009 workshop held at MITRE in MCLean is available at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOCoP/Workshop_2009_11_12 (2QWH)