The Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) workshop on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies was held at the MITRE's McLean Virginia Campus MITRE -2, 7515 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102-7508 on Friday Oct. 17 from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
The purpose of the workshop was to advance understanding about state of research, implementation requirements, anticipated value and future role of spatial ontologies and semantic tools in the continued growth of spatial data infrastructures. There was no charge for the workshop and more conclusions and discussions from the workshop will be posted on this site.
All major briefing slides are available as attachments at the bottom of this page.
People with questions can contact the SOCoP Executive Secretary, Gary Berg-Cross, at gbergcross@gmail.com
Spatial Ontology Community of Practice Workshop
Oct. 17, 2008 at MITRE McLean, VA
Program
Morning Session MITRE 2 Nancy 100 (Meeting ID is: 1916 )
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
| File | Size | Date | Attached by | |||
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| Facilatating Geo-Spatial Ontology Development.ppt Ontology Research for The National Map | 481 kB | 19:50, 2 Dec 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| Geo in Semantic Wiki for TacticalIntel.ppt Geospatial Knowledge in a Semantic Wiki�for�Tactical Intelligence | 2.5 MB | 15:44, 17 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| Liebermann SOCoP presentation.ppt Geo-Semantics and Interoperability for Spatial Data and Technology | 921 kB | 13:02, 17 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| ocean-semantic- mediator.pdf Luis Bermudez on the Oceans Semantic Mediator | 7.27 MB | 12:15, 17 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| oor-2008-10-17.ppt Ontology Repository - Mike Dean BBN | 714.5 kB | 14:31, 17 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| Roundtable and Wrapup Summaries.doc Roundtable discussion | 24.5 kB | 16:12, 20 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| Roundtable Oct 17- Value Proposition and SDI for Ontology JMoeller draft.ppt Value Proposition for Ontology | 153.5 kB | 16:10, 17 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| Socop Intro.ppt Introction and OverView of SOCoP Oct 17 workshop | 904.5 kB | 19:19, 7 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| Spatial Semantics-OBRST-SOCOP-101708-3.ppt Challenges of Spatial Semantics:�Nearness,�Parts, Connectivity,� Vagueness | 408 kB | 01:30, 17 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
| Standards Roundtable Summary.doc Incorporating Demantics into geospatial Standards - notes by Dave Kolas BBN Technologies | 31.5 kB | 19:55, 24 Oct 2008 | garybc | Actions | ||
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