The Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) hosts a free, annual workshops on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies. These are free and usually held in the DC area in the Fall based on facility availability and community interest. (2JWX)
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 the workshop and more information about SOCoP and the workshop is available on the SOCoP wiki. (2JWZ)
The latest workshop was conducted Dec. 3, 2010 and was held at the USGS facility in Reston VA. For a prospectus 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) for a prospectus. (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)
For the morning session 9- 12:30 (or so) we used the Ontolog call in number: from a US telephone (US): +1-218-844-8060 (domestic long distance cost will apply) When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "4389979#" (2JZL)
Start Time: 9:00am EST /6:00am PST / 2:00pm GMT / 3:00pm CET / 14:00 UTC (2JZM)
- Call Duration: ~3.5 hours (2JZN)
This number was also used as one of the call in numbers for breakout sessions in the afternoon (1:30 - 3:00 pm EST). The other is the 2010 SOCoPTeleconference # - 866-740-2200 whose Participant code is: 9765978# (2JZU)
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 {nid 2JX2} }}} (2QWH)