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SOCoP’s NSF INTEROP Project Semantic Interoperability for Geospatial Data

SOCoP’s NSF INTEROP Project Semantic Interoperability for Geospatial Data. Nancy Wiegand University of Wisconsin - Madison. National Science Foundation. Program: Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) Cross-cutting program over many directorates

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SOCoP’s NSF INTEROP Project Semantic Interoperability for Geospatial Data

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  1. SOCoP’s NSF INTEROP Project Semantic Interoperability for Geospatial Data Nancy Wiegand University of Wisconsin - Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  2. National Science Foundation Program: Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) Cross-cutting program over many directorates SOCoP submitted a proposal in 2009 Our grant starts in Fall 2010 for 3 years University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  3. SOCoP’s Title INTEROP – Spatial Ontology Community of Practice: an Interdisciplinary Network to Support Geospatial Data Sharing, Integration, and Interoperability SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  4. People on the Proposal (alphabetically) • Gary Berg-Cross, SLAG Inc. Knowledge Strategies • Mike Dean, BBN • Dave Kolas, BBN • John Moeller, Northrop Grumman Corporation • Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison • James Wilson, James Madison University • Peter Yim, Ontolog CIM3 • Naijun Zhou, University of Maryland, College Park We invite anyone interested. SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  5. Broaden the Network Coordinate with standards groups OGC, FGDC With other geospatial domains working on semantic issues Intend to be an ‘umbrella’ over diverse groups/domains and also focus on ‘spatial’ and ‘geospatial’ University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  6. Motivation Geospatial data are needed for many types of applications, but re-using the data is difficult due in part to semantic heterogeneity resulting from different community views. We will work on ontologies and semantic technologies to help with semantic interoperability. University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  7. What Does an Ontology Look Like?(Like a Conceptual Model) • Spatial Ontology - an explicit, partial description or vocabulary of representations which people use in geospatial/spatial domains • Example - USGS Hydrologic Units are organized in an ontology From a SOCoP Tech Days Presentation April 2007, which took material from theHydrologic Ontologies Framework (HOW) by Michael Piasecki, Bora Beran & Luis Bermudez, Presented at 3rd GEON Annual Meeting San Diego, CA, May 5-6, 2005

  8. INTEROP Tasks • Create a geospatial ontology repository • Establish Web-based collaboration methods • Workshops/meetings, in-person/virtual • Prototypes or demos • Educational component • Basic research in geospatial data interoperability SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  9. Geospatial Ontology Repository • Building on work already being developed by the Open Ontology Repository (OOR) community • http://oor-01.cim3.net/ontologies • OOR has many ontologies, not just geospatial ones • Gary Berg-Cross has already added several geospatial ontologies (e.g., from the Ordnance Survey, SWEET) SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  10. Web-Based Collaboration Methods • www.socop.org • CIM3 CWE (Collaborative Work Environment-Peter Yim) • Wiki, can put links to slides and other pages • Gary Berg-Cross has created pages here, including educational material SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  11. Workshops Purposes Disseminate information about semantic technologies Gather use cases Possibilities for places for workshops are: NSGIC, USGIF Tech Days, NaCo, ESRI conferences, GIScience, UCGIS University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  12. AAG Session: ‘Geospatial Semantics and Ontology’ Sponsorship:Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Presenters: Robert Raskin, SWEET 3.0 Ontologies Dalia Varanka, Topographic Data for Semantic Technology Nancy Wiegand, INTEROP Network to Support Geospatial Data Semantic Interoperability Joshua Lieberman, A Reference Model for Geosemantic Standards Will Smart, SemDat: A web-based interactive, flexible translation service for classification systems and taxonomies University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  13. Prototypes or Demos We intend to create demos to illustrate the use of ontologies and semantic technologies for geospatial uses New and existing demos University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  14. Educational Component Educational materials have already been started at www.socop.org We intend to have in-depth material on geospatial ontologies and their use. University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  15. Basic Research in Geospatial Data Interoperability There are issues and also existing work that participants have already been involved in that will continue. Examples are: Designing and developing tools for an ontology repository Collecting use cases and also noting semantic technology issues Methods to engage the geospatial community Developing and using ontologies in the geospatial community Architecture issues for using ontologies Query language support– e.g., Adding spatial to SPARQL Representation of spatial concepts and relationships in formal ontology languages (OWL) University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

  16. There is much to do!We invite others to work with us. Thank you! Nancy Wiegand University of Wisconsin-Madison SOCoP Dec. 3, 2010

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