[moving this very interesting follow-up conversation from the summit
workshop to this list ... please continue the dialog. Tx. =ppy] (01)
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:20:52 +0200
From: John Bateman <bateman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Deborah MacPherson <debmacp@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>,
"MacPherson, Deborah" <dmacpherson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Lieberman Joshua <jlieberman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Ray <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michelle Raymond <michellearaymond@xxxxxxxxx>,
Rex Brooks <rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Coggeshall <ibcomm@xxxxxxx>,
Bob Smith <bobsmithttl@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pdf of Summit presentation (02)
> By the way Deborah: I think your overheads from the
> Summit are just great! All I can say is yes, yes
> and yes. (03)
>> The issue today is modularity.
>
> Very nice to hear that in the ontology-and-standards
> discussion. We are putting together a small European
> standards proposal at present precisely to get an
> expert group together to address certain
> issues of modularity, methods and best
> practices for supporting
> modularity across what we term 'strongly
> heterogenous domains': it would be good to
> have your input on that. We're focusing on
> the Ambient Assisted Living domain as
> a testbed as here there is also a need to
> get very diverse devices, building design,
> user activities and requirements, etc. to
> be interoperable. So here your point: (04)
>> Everything seems to be working together fairly well, but Building
>> Information is having interoperability problems.
>> Unlike geospatial data, building data does not have a common point of
>> origin.
>
> is spot on. This is where we see strong heterogeneity
> needing to come in.
>
> Anyway, just an immediate response,
> Best,
>
> John B.
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Lieberman Joshua
<jlieberman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John,
>
> Thank you for your kind reply. We look forward to the possibility of
> building on your work as well as previous done with Dr. Kuhn and others in
> Muenster to advance OGC standards in the ontological realm.
>
> Regards,
>
> Josh Lieberman (06)
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:20 AM, John Bateman <bateman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
>> I guess the reference is pertinent to Deborah et al. too, in
>> their Open Floor Plan Display Project. I have included John in the
>> conversation, so you will all have a email address to work from (hope
>> you don't mind, John!) =ppy
>
> no, of course not! Spatial ontologies of all kinds is our
> area after all! ... and the move from GeoSpatial as
> seen in GIS all the way through to spatial in general
> is one of our major concerns so if there is further
> interest and discussion points, great!
>
> (Btw: we still have some PhD grants available
> for folks who might want to work on semantic
> interoperability via ontologies in the geographic
> domain....: http://irtg-sigi.uni-muenster.de/
> This is a joint training scheme: Münster/Bremen/Buffalo.
> So if anyone knows anyone, send along
> an application!)
>
> Best,
> John. (07)
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Deborah MacPherson <debmacp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Peter, thanks for the connection. I hope we can have the chance to talk
> about geo-vocabularies sometime soon Josh and John and will read the links
> below over the weekend. Best Regards, Deborah (08)
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Josh,
>
> ...[snip]...
>
> Ref. our brief discussion on your call for input of ontological
> underpinnings that will be important to your GeoSpatial ontology
> effort, I have mentioned that you may refer to some of the good work
> done by John Bateman and his colleagues at the University of Bremen
> (Germany). You might find some of the references below to be of
> interest:
>
> JohnBateman's thoughts wrt our 2006 Upper Ontology Summit prep -
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/uos-convene/2006-02/msg00089.html
>
> John's presentation at our 2006 Upper Ontology Summit -
>
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15#nidL72
>
> Lecture by JohnBateman and his Colleagues at Ontolog -
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_31
>
> Thanks again for everything.
>
>
> Regards. =ppy
>
> P.S. I guess the reference is pertinent to Deborah et al. too, in
> their Open Floor Plan Display Project. I have included John in the
> conversation, so you will all have a email address to work from (hope
> you don't mind, John!) =ppy
> -- (09)
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