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To: "Spatial CoP (SOCoP) Ontology" <socop-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Lieberman Joshua <jlieberman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:53:43 -0400
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On Monday afternoon, June 14, there will be a Geosemantics summit in  
Silver Spring, MD. This session will be associated with the OGC  
Technical Committee meeting, but is open to OGC members and non- 
members alike.    (01)

The session is motivated by two trends in geosemantics. The first is  
the increasing federation of disparate geospatial services and data  
across domain and community boundaries. GEOSS (Global Earth Observing  
System of Systems) is an example of this, but there are many others.  
As a result, there are increasing needs to perform semantic mediation  
between the concepts and vocabularies brought into these federations  
in order for discovery and exploitation of geodata resources to be  
successful. Many of these terms and the relationships between them are  
spatially meaningful but have little in the way of a consistent  
geosemantic basis for successful mediation to occur.    (02)

The second trend of interest is publication of linked geodata. Just  
"putting it out there and see what happens" has enormous potential for  
geospatial enablement and fusion, as well as enormous potential for  
confusion and duplication as link scheme development and  
"triplification" are carried out in many different ways.    (03)

The goal of the summit is to look at these and other trends in the  
application of geosemantics,  then start to build a reference model  
for the use and adaptation of OGC standards to further them.    (04)

Everyone interested in contributing to this work or learning about it  
is welcome to attend. Proposals for presentations relevant to the  
session themes are also welcome. Please contact me 
(jlieberman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
) for further information.    (05)

Regards,    (06)

Josh Lieberman
Chair, OGC Geosemantics Domain Working Group    (07)

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