Call for Participation (01)
The Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science
and IAOA is announcing the
2015 Summer Institute: (02)
Spatial Ontologies for e-Science
June 21-27, 2015
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA (03)
Programme:
Location often acts as an integrator in science, bringing together perspectives
across multiple disciplines and scales. For example, health scientists
increasingly focus on where patients spend their time, pulling a large variety
of environmental and social data into their analyses. With big data and
e-science, this trend has accelerated and gets increasingly supported through
knowledge infrastructures and associated ontologies. Yet, it is often unclear
how knowledge about location and other spatial properties should best be
captured, and there is only a very limited choice of spatial ontologies. This
Vespucci Institute will ask why this is so and why there seems to have been so
little progress over the past decade. It will push the frontiers on spatial
ontologies for e-science by (04)
* identifying the gaps between the spatial ontologies that the
e-science community needs and what is currently available from the ontology
community;
* addressing key gaps through hands-on ontology design on site;
* discussing the impact of Linked Open Data on e-science and the role
of space in this context;
* collecting criteria and techniques for evaluating spatial
ontologies in e-science;
* broadening the discussion of ontology quality and ontology
applications;
* learning to separate approaches that work from those that do not;
* reviewing the work of relevant standards organizations like W3C and
OGC;
* seeking insight on what needs to complement location to meet
e-science needs (time?, feature?, event?, process? granularity?). (05)
Facilitators
Peter Fox (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Michael Gruninger (University of
Toronto) Werner Kuhn (University of California, Santa Barbara) (06)
Participants from all sectors of e-science, ontology engineering, and
geospatial as well as other spatial sciences are invited to interact from
June 22 to 26, 2015, in beautiful Bar Harbor, Maine. As always, the Vespucci
Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and
hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations. (07)
Travel and attendance grants are available Deadline for applications: 15
April 2015 More information, programme and registration on
http://www.vespucci.org (08)
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