1. GEON-UTEP-09-03 GEON-Knowledge Representation WG Update GEON-KR list (currently) Bertram Ludaescher (SDSC: ludaesch@sdsc.edu) Bertram Ludaescher (SDSC: ludaesch@sdsc.edu) Boyan Brodaric (GSC) Boyan Brodaric (GSC) Chaitan Baru (SDSC) Chaitan Baru (SDSC) Clinton Smyth (GeoreferenceOnline) Clinton Smyth (GeoreferenceOnline) Dogan Seber (SDSC) Dogan Seber (SDSC) Efrat Jaeger (SDSC) Efrat Jaeger (SDSC) Kai Lin (SDSC) Kai Lin (SDSC) Krishna Sinha (VT) Krishna Sinha (VT) Shawn Bowers (SDSC) Shawn Bowers (SDSC) JOIN TODAY! https://lists.sdsc.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/geon-kr

2. Scientific Data Integration... Questions to Queries... What is the distribution and U/ Pb zircon ages of A-type plutons in VA? How about their 3-D geometry ? How does it relate to host rock structures? ? Information Integration Geologic Map (Virginia) GeoChemical GeoPhysical (gravity contours) GeoChronologic (Concordia) Foliation Map (structure DB) “Complex Multiple-Worlds” Mediation domain knowledge Database mediation Data modeling Knowledge Representation: ontologies, concept spaces raw data GeoSciences Network

3. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Towards Shared Conceptualizations: Data Contextualization via Concept Spaces

4. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Rock Classification Ontology Composition Genesis Fabric Texture

5. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Some enabling operations on “ontology data” Composition Concept expansion: what else to look for when asking for ‘Mafic’ what else to look for when asking for ‘Mafic’

6. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Some enabling operations on “ontology data” Composition Generalization: finding data that is “like” X and Y finding data that is “like” X and Y

7. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Ontology-Based GEON Workbench Uploadable:Uploadable: –OWL ontologies –OWL inter-ontology mappings (“articulations”) –Data sets (shape files) “Semantic Registration”“Semantic Registration” –Link data set D with ontology O1 (w/ instance-based heuristic) –Query D using ontology O2 –(e.g. rock classification: O1= GSC, O2=BGS) Ontology-Enabled ApplicationOntology-Enabled Application

8. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Amalgamating OWL Rocktype Ontologies OWL ontologies:OWL ontologies: –Geologic age –GSC’s hiearchies: –Composition –Texture –Fabric –Genesis –BGS: –All-in-one hierarchy Mappings:Mappings: –for now: synonyms only –next steps: more of OWL DL

9. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Navigatable, Amalgamated Rocktype Ontology

10. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Show formations where AGE = ‘Paleozic’ (without age ontology) Show formations where AGE = ‘Paleozic’ (without age ontology) Show formations where AGE = ‘Paleozic’ (with age ontology) Show formations where AGE = ‘Paleozic’ (with age ontology) domain knowledge domain knowledge Knowledge representation AGE ONTOLOGY Nevada

11. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Example: Geologic Map Integration domain knowledge domain knowledge Knowledge representation AGE ONTOLOGY Nevada Geoscientists + Computer Scientists Igneous Geoinformaticists +/- Energy GEON Metamorphism Equation: +/- a few hundred million years

12. GEON-UTEP-09-03 Ontology-Enabled Geologic Map Integration Demonstration (Developer: Kai Lin @ SDSC) http://kbis.sdsc.edu/GEON/map-integration.htmlhttp://kbis.sdsc.edu/GEON/map-integration.html GeoSciences Network