Nancy Wiegand SSO 2011 Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) SOCoP was developed because of the: –Recognition of the semantic interoperability component of geospatial data –Realization of the potential of ontologies and formal representations to help solve semantic heterogeneity in geospatial data SOCoP officially began in Oct after a June meeting at the National Science Foundation

SOCoP ( SSO 2011 Membership in SOCoP is open to anyone Conference calls are held every month, currently on the 3 rd Wednesday at 11:00 Eastern time Through an NSF INTEROP grant, we are expanding SOCoP to create a larger Network We invite those here to participate.

SSO 2011 INTEROP – Spatial Ontology Community of Practice: an Interdisciplinary Network to Support Geospatial Data Sharing, Integration, and Interoperability NSF Program: Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP)

SSO 2011 Purpose of the SOCoP INTEROP Grant Apply and develop semantic technologies for the Geospatial domain Share ontologies to promote data interoperability Submitted by 8 members of SOCoP : – Gary Berg-Cross - Knowledge Strategies, Inc. – Nancy Wiegand - University of Wisconsin-Madison, – James Wilson - James Madison University – Mike Dean and Dave Kolas – Raytheon BBN Technologies – Naijun Zhou - University of Maryland College Park – Peter Yim - CIM Engineering, Inc. – John Moeller - JJMoeller and Associates

INTEROP Tasks - Overview Web presence - Wiki Workshops/meetings, in-person/virtual Prototypes or demos Educational component Create a geospatial ontology repository Basic research in geospatial data interoperability SSO 2011

Web-Based Collaboration Methods CIM3 CWE (Collaborative Work Environment, Peter Yim) –Wiki, can put links to slides and other pages – We have started to create pages here, including educational material

Ontology Repository and GeoSPARQL Open Ontology Repository (OOR) Adding spatial functions to the RDF SPARQL query language (GeoSPARQL) SSO 2011

Sponsored Workshops SOCoP Workshop on Friday, Dec. 2, in the D.C. area (USGS in Reston, VA), no registration fee Just past--Terra Cognita Workshop at ISWC 2011

Broaden the Network We invite those here to participate. SSO 2011

Nancy WiegandSSO 2011 Possible Discussion Topics

Nancy Wiegand Original Semantic Web Vision: Mark up Web documents and data to be machine-processable This requires: Additional Knowledge Representation (HTML  XML, RDF, OWL) Ontologies Reasoners Spatial representation Spatial ontologies Spatial reasoners, Spatial rules, Spatial operators

Search - Geospatial One-Stop 600 results ‘River’ in ‘Dane County’

Vision Improve search for geospatial data and services –Ontologies for semantics and background knowledge Improve querying in geospatial data –Semantic interoperability Combining information, Discovering new information Role of ontologies in different geo-architectures Geospatial data in the Linked Open Data cloud SSO 2011 Nancy Wiegand

SSO 2011 Ordnance Survey Linked Sensor Data Linked GeoData Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. Linked Open Data Geospatial Data in the Cloud

Issues with Ontologies Who creates the ontologies? –How to get the right people together –Find use cases, Is the ontology right for the use case? –Get domain scientists or practitioners to focus on the problem Where to find ontologies once created –Repositories Technology/architecture to use ontologies Nancy WiegandSSO 2011

Nancy WiegandSSO 2011 Discussion