Abstracts for October 28-29, 2013 (PDF)
Program 2013
| Monday | October 28, 2013 | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome, Background | Nancy Wiegand |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Enhanced Semantics for Gazetteers | Kate Beard |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | World History Ontology Research in CHIA Project | Kai Cao |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Community Engagement in New Development of a State Repository/GeoPortal, followed by discussion | Curtis Pulford Wisconsin State Geographic Information Officer (GIO) |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Interoperability and Semantics | Luis Bermudez Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Enabling Semantic Mediation in OGC Sensor Web Enablement Offerings | Janet Fredericks |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Semantic Portals for Semantic Spatial Data Infrastructures | Francis Harvey |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | The iPlant Collaborative Semantic Web Platform | Damian Gessler |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Reading News with Maps | Hanan Samet |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | Geosearch: A System Utilizing Ontology and Knowledge Reasoning to Support Geospatial Data Discovery | Kai Liu (and Chaowei Yang) |
| 3:45 - 4:15 | Semantics-enhanced Geoscience Interoperability, Analytics, and Applications | T. K. Prasad (and Amit Sheth) |
| 4:15 – 5:00 | Discuss and Summary: e.g., What is the vision for semantics in SDIs and state GeoPortals? What technology is needed? How can ontologies be created? Which ontologies exist? Discuss general implementation issues and problems for building geospatial semantic web systems. | |
| 5:00 – 5:45 | Optional walk past the Memorial Union and along the unpaved lakeshore path. Sunset at 17:58. |
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| 5:30 – 7:30 | Dinner at the Pyle Center | |
| Tuesday | October 29, 2013 | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Semantics and Ontologies for Geospatial Architecture: A Manifesto of Ideas | Gary Berg-Cross |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches | Sanjib Das (and Anhai Doan) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Developing Semantics Rules using Evolutionary Computation for Information Extraction from Remotely Sensed Imagery | Henrique Momm |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Enabling Semantic Search in Geospatial Metadata Catalogue to Support Polar Sciences | Vidit Bhatia (and Wenwen Li) |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | The Many Semantic Domains of Spatial Data Infrastructure (cancelled) | Mark Gahegan (and Ben Adams) |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 1:25 | Getting Started with GeoSPARQL | Dave Kolas |
| 1:25 - 1:55 | GeoQuery: A Visual Tool for GeoSPARQL | James Wilson |
| 1:55 - 2:30 | Discussion on use and implementation of RDF for geospatial data | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Land Use and Land Cover Semantics – Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects | Ola Ahlqvist |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | Geospatial Semantic Architecture Objectives to Support a Graduate Course on Ontology and Semantics | Dalia Varanka |
| 3:45 – 4:00 | The Practice of Architecture in the 4th Paradigm | Charles Vardeman |
| 4:00 – 5:00 | Discussion | |
| 5:00 | End of Workshop |
