For the program of the GeoSpatial Semantics Workshop held in October 2013, click here.
Agenda (PDF) for 2-3 June 2014
| Monday | 2 June 2014 | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome & Background, GeoQuery and Land Use work | Nancy Wiegand |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Semantic Enhancement of Polar Cyberinfrastructure | Wenwen Li |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Semantic Technologies Improving the Recall and Precision of the Mercury Search Engine | Line Pouchard |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | ODISEES : An Ontology-Driven Interactive Search Environment for Earth Sciences | Beth Huffer |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 1:30 | GeoVoID Vocabulary | Todd Pehle |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Introduction to Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) and Process | Gary Berg-Cross |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Material Transformation Pattern | Charles Vardeman |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Managing Geosemantic Diversity: Repositories & Patterns | Torsten Hahmann |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15 - 5:00 | Finish discussion of potential ODP topics, then move into Breakout groups* (see below) |
Rm 317 available |
| 5:00 - 6:00 | Optional walk past the memorial Union and along the unpaved lakeshore path | |
| 5:20 - 6:20 | Cash bar | |
| 5:30 - 7:30 | Dinner at the Pyle Center | |
| Tuesday | 3 June 2014 | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Update/logistics, Initial scope of breakout groups; | |
| 9:30 - 10:45 | Breakout groups (develop terms and initial model) | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Breakout groups (finalize working model, begin to formalize using some formal language) | |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Breakout groups (continue formalization, test model with data, document progress and discuss publication or further work) | |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15 - 5:00 | Reports | |
| 5:00 | End of Workshop |
*Possible Ontology Design Pattern (ODP) topics:
- Material Transformation Pattern
- Parcels/Cadastral model
- Contours
- Common attributes of climate models or particular categories (e.g., radiation or aerosols)
- GeoSPARQL Service Description, e.g., a WFS GetCapabilities for Linked Data. Also, extending GeoSPARQL with a geometry relations vocabulary for Linked Data, e.g., to describe centroids, convex hulls, MBRs, etc. That is, GeoSPARQL currently has URIs for geometric “functions”, but not relations
Process: The breakout groups establish a domain scope for an ODP, use participants’ expertise to determine vocabulary and a model, formalize the model, suggest possible data to use with the model, and discuss potential for further work and publication.
