SOCoP/Workshop 2009 11 12

= Second Annual 2009 SOCoP Workshop at MITRE - Thu 2009.11.12  =

2nd Annual Spatial Ontology Community of Practice Workshop: Towards a Reference Model for GeoSpatial Ontologies being held on Nov. 12, 2009.

See SocopMeetingpage for information about upcoming and past meetings, usually on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.

This workshop was organized by SOCoP with support from MITRE, Ontolog and OGC and was hosted by MITRE at their McClean Virginia Campus.

The purpose of the workshop was to continue the discussion from last years workshop advancing understanding about state of research, implementation requirements, anticipated value and future role of spatial ontologies and semantic tools in the continued growth of the spatial data domain. The main theme of the 2nd iteration of the workshop addressed the question: Can a meaningful reference model be crafted to guide work to accelerate the pace of advancement for the development and use of geospatial ontologies and related semantics? In discussing this theme we had a morning of talks and an afternoon of small group roundtable discussions.

=== Agenda & Proceedings: (Thu 2009.11.12) Note that most of the presentations are available via links below. Audio of the morning sessions was also captured by Peter Yim (CIM3). In addition Gary Berg-Cross developed SocopworkshopSummaries of the keynote presentation which is also online along with some notes from the Breakout sessions. ===

Session-1 (presentations)


 * 9:12 - 9:24   Introductions, Welcome and Overview - John Moeller -  [ slides ] . [ audio ]

slides ]. [ audio]. [ see SocopworkshopSummaries for a summary on this presentation from notes by Gary Berg-Cross ]
 * 9:24 - 10:09   Keynote on GeoSpatial Semantics: JohnBateman (via webcast) Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen -  [


 * 10:09  10:45 Controlled Vocabulary applied to the SDI and FEA Geospatial Profile Domain, Doug Nebert -  [ slides ] . [ audio ]


 * 10:45 - 11:00  Break


 * 11:00 11:30 Leveraging the OGC Reference Model (ORM) Mark E. Reichardt President & CEO, OpenGeoSpatial  Consortium, Inc. -  [ [ slides] ] . [ audio ]


 * 10:36- 12:09 TC 211 work item - 2162 Geographic Information, Jean Brodeur (via Webcast) - [ slides ] . [ audio ]


 * 12:09  12:30 Vocabulary Development, LeoObrst - [ slides ] . [ audio ]


 * 12:30 - 12:50 Integrated GeoSpatial Demonstrations Oceans Semantic Mediator - LuisBermudez, Southeastern Universities Research Association - [ [ slides] ] . [ audio ]


 * 12:50  1:40 Lunch and Networking - On your Own, Demonstrations and Posters in breakout rooms


 * 1:43  1:04 Update on the Open GeoSpatial Ontology Repository MikeDean, BBN Technology (via Webcast)with intro from Gary Berg-Cross running the slides -  [ slides ] . [ audio ]


 * 2:04  2:22 A Summary of the 2009 Terra Cognita Workshop, Dave Kolas, BBN, NancyWiegand, University of Wisconsin,  -  [ [ slides] ] . [ audio ]

Session-2 - Roundtable Discussions (2:00-3:30pm):


 * Group-1: Further discussion of the Reference Model and the Ontology Value Proposition - See SocoproundtableReferncemodelandvalueproposition for a summary.

See SocoproundtableVocamp_national_map_summary_notes for a summary.
 * Discussion Group-2:
 * Follow up to a Neo Geo session VoCamp activity in DC being held after ISWC to develop a small, core, lightweight set of vocabularies based on neo geography
 * Coordination on Integrated Demos such as Oceans IE and the Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Project Geospatial and start on Ontology Use cases (e.g. crosswalk of country codes and country names)
 * USGS Ontology for The National Map and Populating a Geospatial Ontology repository

Audio archives:

 * To download the audio recording of the workshop, click on the "[ audio ]" links below (which are unedited recorded segments by time), or click on the audio links against each of the speaker presentation listed under the proceedings above.
 * the playback of the audio files require the proper setup, and an MP3 compatible player on your computer.
 * Date of Recording:	12-Nov-2009
 * Segment: Time (EST) - [ audio-file ] - Length (hh:mm:ss) - Audio file-size (MB)
 * AM session-1: 9:10~10:45 - [ am-1 audio ] - 1:32:36 - 11.0 MB
 * AM session-2: 11:00~12:50 - [ am-2 audio ] - 1:52:18 - 13.0 MB
 * PM session-1: 1:43~2:23 - [ pm-1 audio ] - 0:56:58 - 4.5 MB
 * its best that you listen to the session while having the respective presentations opened in front of you.

For more information, contact the SOCoP Executive Secretary - Dr. Gary Berg-Cross via email to: gbergcross [at] gmail.com