“Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge 2 – Foundational Research”

1. Development of a CyberGIS Ontology using the newly re-engineered GIS&T Body of Knowledge Cyber InfrastructureCyber GIS 2013September 15, 2013Sean C. Ahearn, Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI)Hunter College – CUNY

2. “Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge 2 – Foundational Research” • NSF funded 2010-2013 • NSF GSS Award 0964563 • Goal: • Envision, implement, demonstrate foundations for BoK2 • Team: • CUNY - Hunter College • Brigham Young Univ • San Diego State Univ • New Mexico State Univ • http://gistbok.org/ • Key questions: • What is the BoK? • How to operationalize it? • What can it be used for? • How can it evolve?

3. Conceptual Model of the Knowledge Ecosystem External Applications Rest Services Visual Wiki BoKOnto VPE • Taxonomy • Instances • Inferences • Mappings Managmentne Content Management BoKOnto BoKVis Server Layer Web Servcies BoKScorecard SPARQL endpoint Text Mining Interface Course Page Job Posting Article GIS & T BoK2: Ahearn, Skupin, Plewe, DeMer

4. Graph Network Visual Wiki http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/

5. Text-Visual Hybrid http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/bokwiki.html

6. Triple Store Versioning with RDF tag* V1.2 Concept 1 Concept 2 V1.0 V1.5 V1.5b Concept 3 Concept 4 Each concept will be tagged with a version number*. The current version will be designated with a “b” tag (i.e. V1.5b). This tag will be given to all concepts that are yet to be approved. Applications can access any version through the use of the versioning tag field. V1.4 Concept 5 *Bedi, P. and M. Sudeep, 2007, Versioning OWL Ontologies using Temporal Tags. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology GIS & T BoK2: Ahearn, Skupin, Plewe, DeMer

7. Review Process A P P L I C A T I O N S Visual Wiki Data mining New Concept V1.5b Approval Process New Concept V1.6

8. Authoritative Product • A "top down" approach in which experts in those disciplines review additions/changes to the GIS&T BokOnto to determine what concepts are accepted in the next version (traditional editor). • Scores for confidence in a new concept and its connections could be generated from the bottom up in a collaborative fashion through assertion and debate by the community (Ahearn et al., 2013) . • Scores for new concepts could be inferred through data mining of the contributors publications to generate a weight for each concept they wish to add/modify. The concepts parent would be used for the scoring metric. • Scores could for new concepts could be determined through the nature (confirmation of existing content, correction, or revision) of a contribution (Keßler and de Groot, 2013).

9. Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge – Foundational Research Ahearn, S.C., Icke, I., Datta, R., DeMers, M.N., Plewe, B., and Skupin, A. (in press) Re-Engineering the GIS&T Body of Knowledge. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. DeMers, M., Klimaszewski-Patterson, A., Richman, R., Ahearn, S., Plewe, B., Skupin, A. (in press) Toward an Immersive 3D Virtual BoK Exploratorium: A Proof of Concept. Transactions in GIS. • Links • NSF Project: • http://gistbok.org/ • BoK Web Services examples: • http://www.gistbok.org/gistbok/services/gistbok1hierarchy • http://www.gistbok.org/gistbok/services/conceptmap?concept=Data+mining • BoKVis: • https://trac.devzing.com/space/BoKVis/wiki • BoKWiki: • http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/bokwiki.html