Ontologies for Sustainable Development

1. Ontologies for Sustainable Development CYTED (Ibero-american) IDEDES Project 606AC0294 Dra. Tatiana Delgado Fernández IDEDES Project Coordinator Urban Ontologies COST C21

2. Summary • Motivation • IDEDES Project (Participants and Objectives) • IDEDES Results on 2006 • IDEDES Context Perspective • IDEDES Ontology Perspective • Expectations from COST Urban Ontologies COST C21

3. Motivation • CYTED Project “Evaluation and strengthening of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) for sustainable development in Latin-America and the Caribbean Countries” (IDEDES) (2006-2009): • To bridge the gap between sustainable development needs and SDIs by means of domains ontology creation and the corresponding semantics services • To strengthen the NSDIs in the region Urban Ontologies COST C21

4. Aceptation Society GIS Enterprise GIS Department GIS Project GIS Time (Adapted from ESRI – Environmental Systems Research Institute) From GIS to SDI SDI is all about facilitation and coordination of the exchange and sharingof spatial data Urban Ontologies COST C21

5. 1st Generation 2nd Generation Towards the Next Generation Developed Countries Emerging Economies Developing Countries Developed, Emerging and Developing Countries Delivery of a Virtual Environment in support of spatial enablement of society as part of an e-government strategy 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 Future Process Based SDI development model Product-Based SDI development model Push by the technology Data-centric Pull by the demand User-driven SDI to support spatially enabled society Evolution of Spatial Data Infrastructures (Adapted from Abbas Rajabifard, 2007) Urban Ontologies COST C21

6. Participants Urban Ontologies COST C21

7. Liaisons RGI 005 Project into the framework of Space for Information Program in The Netherlands Urban Ontologies COST C21

8. General Objective To evaluate and strengthen the Spatial Data Infrastructures for sustainable development, including scenarios that embed new semantic-based spatial services in order to contribute to decision making process in Latin-American and the Caribbean countries. Urban Ontologies COST C21

9. Specific Objectives • Defining the thematic research limits into the context of sustainable development • Assessing the development of the SDIs in countries of Ibero-America and selecting several scenarios in order to apply research experiments • Creating domain ontologies focusing on sustainable development • Harmonizing ontology models with standards provided by W3C, ISO TC 211 and OGC in order to use them in a heterogeneous and interoperable context. • Designing conceptual and logical models of ontology-based applications (Web Services) that might support SDIs for sustainable development at national and regional levels. • Determining and applying SDI impact indicators for sustainable development • Supporting the Permanent Committee of Spatial Data Infrastructure for America (PC IDEA) in a way that contributes to the development of national as well as regional initiatives relating to sustainable development. • Making use of existing PhD e-learning Programs and other similar education initiatives to prepare the researchers involved. • Creating a methodology for implementing sustainable development oriented SDIs and suggesting an implementation plan with focus on Latin-American and Caribbean countries. Urban Ontologies COST C21

10. CYTED IDEDES - 2006 • Related to Objective 1: Several themes (from UN sustainable development indicators) were selected to be object of the domain ontology creation: • Environment dimension • Forestry • Agriculture • Hydrography • Institutional dimension • Science & Technology • Disasters Risks • Social dimension • Urban/rural territory • Related to Objective 2: Assessing of SDI • - SDI readiness index in 15 countries of the region • - SDI State of Play in 11 countries Urban Ontologies COST C21

11. 2006 - SDI Readiness index Urban Ontologies COST C21

12. 2007 – SDI State of Play Urban Ontologies COST C21

13. IDEDES Context perspective ONTOLOGIES Sustainable Development Spatial Data Infrastructures IMPACT Latin-American and Caribbean countries Urban Ontologies COST C21 Education and training

14. IDEDES Ontology Perspective Application Ontology Domain Ontology KD & Support Tools Data Mining Fuzzy Logic Grid, etc Domain Ontology Methodologies Sustainable development Spatial Data Infrast. Semantic Services Development Domain n Ontology Creation Domain n Ontology Creation Domain 3 Ontology Creation Domain 3 Ontology Creation Domain 2 Ontology Creation Domain 2 Ontology Creation Domain 1 Ontology Creation KD Services Development Domain 1 SDI building Urban Ontologies COST C21

15. ¿Conclusions or Expectations? • ¿How we could maximize the sinergy • between COST and IDEDES? • Collaboration in Domain Ontology Methodologies? • Collaboration in the Urban Domain Ontology creation? • Collaboration in the generation of use cases (Urban SDI)? • Collaboration in the integration of services to satisfy use cases in Urban Contex? • Collaboration in disemination and education? Urban Ontologies COST C21

16. Thank you Tatiana Degado Fernández tatiana@geocuba.co.cu Urban Ontologies COST C21