LATEST: The 4th Annual Spatial Ontology Community of Practice Workshop: Geo-Spatial Ontologies and Semantics - current and future practices will be held Dec. 2, 2011 at the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Center (2YSI)
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192 on Friday December 2, 2011 from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. (2YSF)
This workshop is organized by SOCoP with support from the USGS, Ontolog, and others. (2YSG)
Even though there will be no charge for the Workshop, we will ask attendees to register with SOCoP to facilitate logistics and entry into the USGS Building. Workshop Registration Information: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2476888440 (2YSJ)
As with last year we expect that remote registrants will be able to access the workshop via Web-Ex. (2YSK)
Details on this will be available later on the SOCoP and registration sites. (2YSH)
Previous: Just Completed - Spatial Semantics and Ontologies Workshop (SSO), Nov. 1, 2011
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We had 7 papers presented and lighting round discussion of ontology repositories, ontology design patterns and how to get workshop collaboration. (2YZH)
See #sso2011 for some tweets on the presentations . (2X2C)
See socop/Sso_agenda for the final agenda of talks and other workshop events. (2YLZ)
These are: (2X2D)
- Introducing the New SIM-DL_A Semantic Similarity Measurement Plug-in for the Protege Ontology Editor, Christoph Mülligann, Johannes Trame, Krzysztof Janowicz (2X2E)
- Exploiting Semantics for Geospatial Data Fusion, Pedro Szekely, Craig Knoblock, Shubham Gupta, Mohsen Taheriyan, and Bo Wu (2X2F)
- Modeling Geospatial Barriers, Emily White and Kathleen Stewart (2X2G)
- A Semantic Web Map Mediation Service: Interactive Redesign and Sharing of Map Legends, “Mark Gahegan, Will Smart, Sina Masoud-Ansari, Brandon Whitehead (2X2H)
- Volunteered Geographic Services: Developing a Linked Data Driven Location-based Service, Alexander Savelyev, Krzysztof Janowicz, Jim Thatcher, Sen Xu, Christoph Mülligann, Wei Luo (2X2I)
- Balloon: Representing and Querying the Near Future Movement of Predictive Moving Objects, Hechen Liu and Markus Schneider (2X2J)
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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. (2W1Z)
Also Recent: Terra Cognita 2011 Workshop, http://asio.bbn.com/terracognita2011/ (2W20)
In Conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference, (ISWC 2011), http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/, Bonn, Germany. (2W21)
Background (2X2L)
The Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) organizes workshops. Examples include Terra Cognita Workshop held at several ISWC meetings, including one at ISWC 2011 in Germany. See above. Another upcoming workshop will be at the ACM SIGSPatial GIS conference in Chicago. See above. (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 last 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 from this earlier workshop is at: http://www.eventbrite.com/createinvite?eid=994112417&invite=538989 (2JX1)
Information and presentations from the 2009 workshop held at MITRE in MCLean are also available at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOCoP/Workshop_2009_11_12 (2QWH)