Minutes from Wednesday’s SOCoP Meeting Oct. 26, 2011 from 11:00 - 12:00 EDT

Attendees-Participants: Gary Berg-Cross (Knowledge Strategies), John Moeller (JJ Moeller & Associates LLC), Nancy Wiegand (U of Wisconsin), Peter Yim (CIM3), James Wilson (JMU), Dalia Varanka (USGS)

Peter Yim noted that the free conference call bridge which Ontolog (and we) are using is going “off the air” shortly so we will have to find an alternative. Peter discussed the issue and the search for another service.
Ontolog may have to pay for a service and if we have modest use SOCoP can leverage that.  Peter and Gary will discuss options in time to make announcements for the next meeting.  

In the meantime if some community member has a conference bridge for the November SOCoP meeting we can perhaps use that.  People can contact Gary if they have such a service or can suggest an alternative.

Bottom line it expect a NEW tele conference # in the agenda of the next meeting. This will also be noted on the Wiki.

The following topics were then discussed.

1.	Update on OOR and candidate ontologies
Peter summarized the status of work in Mike absence (He and Dave are attending ISWC in Germany). Stanford VM code image hasn’t been ready so Mike used an instance running on laptop for a demonstration at ORNL in Sept.  This was successful, but there is still some work needed to be able to host it on the CIM infrastructure which is large. Progress is being made and tt is a priority for the development team to build a viable image for SOCoP use of the OOR.  
At Stanford they have upgrade to BioPortal to 3.3. and so when the OOR implementation is finished we will have that version. 

Peter invited to put ontologies on the existing Sandbox as a test.
One reason that we want to invite others to check for compatibility of things OWL and OWL-2 and Protégé 4 build issues. Gary has tried a Protégé 4 ontology in the past which he had to reload in Protégé 3, but will try to test this again.
   
2.	Final plans for the Nov. SSO workshop (at ACM SIGSPatial).

Nancy mentioned the Krzysztof Janowicz (now UCSB) keynote speaker and the topic is “A (biased) Roadmap Towards Semantic Interoperability in GIScience”

Gary Berg-Cross drafted an agenda for the session and described how ordered the papers with some of the highest rated ones in the morning and also tried to group them by his subjective judgment of similarity. So a discussion of representing barriers might be related to representing moving objects that might intersect with barriers.

Nancy noted that we still have no sense of who will be there, except that Mike Dean might be there and could talk about the OOR in the afternoon lightning round or discussion session at 4:30. Nancy will try to get an idea of who is registered.

Dalia has 10 minutes or so of material and this may be in the 3-3:30 session or at the 4:30 session.  

The idea of the Discussion Session at end ranged from a panel to other things. We would like to have a semi-organized session and Nancy could give a short talk on INTEROP in the 4:30  pm session. There would be some time at the end to talk about what people might have to say about the state of the art on this and that topic and follow up on topics raised in papers.  

3.	Plans SemTechEast Tuesday the 29th
Nancy’s slides due are Friday but she expects to modify these later. The organizers have asked for a community of Practice discussion after 10 minutes of slides. Mike will be there and can talk about the OOR and the organizers have allowed Gary to register and just come for the session.  Brand Niemann is talking at the same time, so this may split groups interested in semantic communities.

4.	Second Fall SOCoP Workshop at USGS Dec. 2

Gary talked about a list of possibility speakers including K. Janowicz, Todd Pehle, Josh Lieberman, Lynn, something on GeoSPARQL from OGC and several items from INTEROP work such as the OOR.  Penn state U researchers such as Fred Fonseca, a core geo-ontology researcher and/or Wang-Chien Lee might participate and/or send students. Gaurav Sinha is planning on attending and Ola might present an update. This seemed like a good start to Dalia.

Nancy asked if there was anything new from SDI.  John thought he could contact  Doug Niebert about participating. John will also check with Jonathan Clark at NGA to see if he can present.  Another possible speaker is Jerry Johnston at EPA is another possibility along with David G. Smith who attended our VoCamp.

Another OGC candidate was their semantic service mediation using NGA (Topographic Data Store (TDS)) and USGS (TNM) data.  Dalia will check on this.  She believes that  Luis may be involved in this. Gary noted that Gobe Hobona, Roger Brackin presented this topic at the recent Bolder OGC meeting.  There presentation was called “OWS-8 CCI Semantic Mediation ER: Cross Community Interoperability (CCI) Semantic Mediation.  

Nancy noted that OGC has link to Semantic Mediation Architectures of this topic and John can probably get a copy of this document. This might be what is called the Surrogate Rosetta Mediation Model (RMM-S) in the OWS-8 CCI presentation.
( A picture of this architecture is available but too large to send as email and will be placed on the SOCoP wiki.)

John talked about a strategy for getting out an Announcement without full agenda.
We should get this to interested parties such as we did last year including:
•	FGDC
•	USGIF tech committee’ and 
•	OGC
•	The Ontolog and SOCoP forums
•	Gary has already sent out a notice to last year’ attendees.

When the group was at ORNL there were some attendees such as Timothy Nyerges & the Bok2 folks who were interested in keeping up with our progress as collaborators.  They might send someone. 

Gary and John expect to talk soon to coordinate getting an announcement out.

5.	January NSF Review
The INTEROP annual review will be at the end of January (25th-27th) in Indianapolis.  It is not yet sure what the agenda is and who needs to attend.  Nancy and Gary talk about this while in Chicago

6.	Jano’s VoCamp Meeting
Jano is planning a VoCamp in Santa Barbara Feb. 3-5 (Friday through Sunday). He wasn’t on the call to update the group on what will be covered, but you can go to http://vocamp.org/wiki/GeoVoCampSB2012 for the latest.
The original list of topics is:
•	geo-ontology design patterns and bottom-up semantics for geographic feature types on the micro-scale,
especially for Points of Interest, and 
•	meso-scale, e.g., land-use classes.

Current list of “if time permits” Participants includes a good group of “ontologists”
•	Andrew Frank (TU Wien, Austria) (if time permits) 
•	David Mark (State University of New York at Buffalo) (if time permits) 
•	Mark Gahegan (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) (if time permits) 
•	Mike Goodchild (UCSB) (if time permits) 
•	Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University) (if time permits) 
•	Simon Scheider (University of Muenster) (if time permits) 
•	Keith Clarke (UCSB) (if time permits) 
•	Ming-Hsiang Tsou (SDSU) (if time permits) 
•	Piotr Jankowski (SDSU) (if time permits) 
•	Sven Schade (EC-JRC) (if time permits) 
•	Dan Goldberg (USC) (if time permits) 
•	Werner Kuhn (University of Muenster) (if time permits) 
•	Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo) (if time permits) 

7.	Other Workshops
John mentioned an April 9-12 WhereCon  conference. OGC and USGIF are sponsoring this event at DC convention center.  See WhereCon.com for details.
One idea is that they might have WhereCamps associated with this.  We might do a VoCamp as part of this. 

When John was asked if there would be a charge, he replied “probably not.”
Would it have to be focused on intelligence?  No, they are not focused on that and there is just one session that is intelligence related.

8. Terra Cognita workshop: Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web, in conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011). Workshop website: http://asio.bbn.com/terracognita2011/
ISWC website: http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/

This workshop took place on Sunday, October 23, 2011 I in Bonn, Germany and Mike and Dave were there for it and at the ISWC 2011 conference.

The papers below were the ones accepted at Terra Cognita:
1.	Chris De Rouck, Olivier Van Laere, Steven Schockaert and Bart Dhoedt. Georeferencing Wikipedia pages using language models from Flickr (presentation)
2.	Jens Ortmann, Minu Limbu, Dong Wang and Tomi Kauppinen. Crowdsourcing Linked Open Data for Disaster Management (presentation)
3.	Efthymios Drymonas, Alexandros Efentakis and Dieter Pfoser. Opinion Mapping Travelblogs (presentation)
4.	Rahul Parundekar, José Luis Ambite and Craig Knoblock. Aligning Unions of Concepts in Ontologies of Geospatial Linked Data (presentation)
5.	Eetu Mäkelä, Aleksi Lindblad, Jari Väätäinen, Rami Alatalo, Osma Suominen and Eero Hyvönen. Discovering Places of Interest through Direct and Indirect Associations in Heterogeneous Sources - The TravelSampo System 
6.	Arif Shaon, Andrew Woolf, Shirley Crompton, Robert Boczek, Will Rogers and Mike Jackson. An Open Source Linked Data Framework for Publishing Environmental Data under the UK Location Strategy (presentation)
7.	Sven Tschirner, Ansgar Scherp and Steffen Staab. Semantic access to INSPIRE - How to publish and query advanced GML data (presentation)
8.	Jan Oliver Wallgrün and Mehul Bhatt. An Architecture for Semantic Analysis in Geospatial Dynamics
9.	Iris Helming, Abraham Bernstein, Rolf Grütter and Stephan Vock. Making close to suitable for web searches - a comparison of two approaches (presentation)
10.	Juan Martín Salas and Andreas Harth. Finding spatial equivalences across multiple RDF datasets (presentation)
11.	Lars Döhling and Ulf Leser. EquatorNLP: Pattern-based Information Extraction for Disaster Response (presentation)
12.	Rui Candeias and Bruno Martins. Associating Relevant Photos to Georeferenced Textual Documents through Rank Aggregation (presentation)

The next SOCoP meeting is targeted for Nov. 16, 2011.