Spatial Ontology Community of Practice Workshop (Oct. 17, 2008)

9:00 - 9:05    MITRE Welcome – Leo Obrst MITRE Host, Information Semantics
    Information Discovery & Understanding, C2  Center

9:10 - 9:15     Introductions and Overview - John Moeller SOCoP Co-Chair

9:15 - 9:45     Geo-Semantics and Interoperability for Spatial Data and Technology
                Dr. Josh Lieberman VP of Enterprise Architecture, Traverse Technologies

9:45 - 10:05    Semantics of Nearness
Leo Obrst, MITRE

10:05 - 10:20   Break

10:20 - 10:40   Open Ontology Repository 
                Mike Dean, BBN Technologies

10:40- 11:10    Ontology for The National Map
                Dr. Dalia Varanka, U.S. Geological Survey

Dr. Dalia Varanka's ( Research Geographer at U.S. Geological Survey ) talk is not posted here, but will be when the USGS review committee aproves it for publication.

        11:10 - 11:40   Oceans Semantic Mediator  
                        Luis Bermudez, Southeastern Universities Research Association

        11:40 - 12:00   Geospatial Knowledge in a Semantic Wiki for Tactical Intelligence
                        Todd Pehle, Orbis Technologies 

        12:00 - 1:00    Lunch and Networking - On your Own

        1:00 - 2:10     Afternoon Session Concurrent Roundtables      

Incorporating Semantics into Geospatial Standards MITRE 2, Nancy 100 Meeting ID is: 1916 
Topic Lead:  Dave Kolas

Integrating the Communities - Geospatial, Ontology, Semantic, Medical  MITRE 2, Rm. 918 Topic Lead:  Mike Dean (Tele ID# is:5839 )

2:10 - 3:20     Concurrent Roundtables
                                      

Value Proposition for Spatial Ontologies & Incorporating Semantics and Ontologies into Spatial Data Infrastructures MITRE 2, Nancy 100 Meeting ID is: 1916 Draft notes on this session are provided as attached files available at the bottom of the page.

Topic Leads  - Kevin Backe & John Moeller

 Research Needs for Geospatial Ontologies MITRE 2, Rm 918 (Tele ID# is: 5839 )
 Topic Lead - Lynn Usery (USGS)  and Mike Dean (BBN Technologies)  substituting for James Wilson, James Madison University
 

3:20- 4:00      General Session Wrap up MITRE 2, Nancy 100
Kevin Backe and John Moeller, SOCoP Co-Chairs

Among the pomts was a need for better semantic tools  that incorporate ontologies & that simplify the integration within a SOA enterprise –w/o need for an integration team of experts.

Another need is for significant operational examples that demonstrate the benefit to enterprise using semantic technologies including ontologies.

The CoP was asked if it could discuss what an ontology is for the sake of members of the broader geospatial community.  

  The SOCoP Wiki is at: www.socop.org