ERRATA: I meant to change the subject line first ... and pressed send
too quickly. =ppy
-- (01)
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [moving this very interesting follow-up conversation from the summit
> workshop to this list ... please continue the dialog. Tx. =ppy] (02)
> -----------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>
>> By the way Deborah: I think your overheads from the
>> Summit are just great! All I can say is yes, yes
>> and yes.
>
>>> 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:
>
>>> 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.
> --------------------------------------- (03)
> 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 (04)
> 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. (05)
> 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 (06)
> 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
>> --
> (07)
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