Terra Cognita 2006

Terra Cognita 2006 - Directions to the Geospatial Semantic Web

in conjunction with the Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006) Athens, Georgia, USA

This workshop was held on the 6th November

The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the semantic web and formal logic communities who are searching for real-world case studies to stretch their modelling languages and algorithms, with domain experts who have perhaps yet to implement semantic applications using their spatial understanding. The intended audience also included those “in the middle” with an interest in formal spatial reasoning, exploitation of relational spatial databases, and standards for implementation of geospatially enabled Semantic Web.

Agenda & Papers

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8h00 – 8h30	Coffee and Welcome. Setting expectations and objectives for the day.
8h30 – 9h15	Invited Speaker: Max Egenhofer, University of Maine “The Geospatial Semantic Web: from Terra Incognita to Terra Cognita”
9h15 – 10h45	Applications *“So what’s so special about spatial?”* Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey of Great Britain. Paper and Presentation “Representing the Dimensions of an Ecological Niche” Deana Pennington, University of New Mexico, USA. Paper and Presentation *“Fire Alerts on the Geospatial Semantic Web”* Graeme McFerren, Stacey Roos and Andrew Terhorst, Meraka Institute, South Africa Paper and presentation
10h45 – 11h00	Coffee Break
11h00 – 11h25	*“Data Processing in Space, Time and Semantics Dimension”* Farshad Hakimpour, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Matthew Perry and Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA. Paper
11h25 – 12h30	Panel on Geospatial Ontologies Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Deanna Pennington, University of New Mexico, USA Todd Pehle, Northrop Grumman Cathy Dolbear, Ordnance Survey - Presentation
12h45 – 13h45	Lunch
13h45 - 15h30	Geospatial Semantic Web Services “SWING – A Semantic Web Services Framework for the Geospatial Domain” Dumitru Roman, Eva Klien and David Skogan. DERI, Austria; University of Muenster, Germany and SINTEF, Norway. Paper *“Spatial Integration of Semantic Web Services: the e-Merges Approach”* Vlad Tanasescu, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue, Leticia Gutiérrez Villarías, Rob Davies, Mary Rowlatt, Marc Richardson and Sandra Stincic. Open University, Essex County Council, and BT Exact, UK. Paper and Presentation “Similarity-Based Retrieval for Geospatial Semantic Web Services Specified using the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML-Core)” Krzysztof Janowicz, presented by Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany. Paper *“Conceptual Search: Incorporating Geospatial Data Into Semantic Queries”* William Kammersell and Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA. Paper and Presentation
15h30 – 15h45	Break
15h45 – 16h45.	Discussions on elements of a Geo Working Group charter: led by Josh Lieberman, Traverse Technologies Presentation Geospatial ontologies Spatial and semantic reasoning Geosemantic Web Services
16h45 – 17h00	Close

The organising committee, Cathy Dolbear and John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Joshua Lieberman, Traverse Technologies would like to thank our invited speaker Max Egenhofer, panel members Deana Pennington, Todd Pehle and Deborah McGuinness; and Glen Hart for all his support. We would also like to thank the Programme Committee for their helpful reviews:

Todd Pehle, Northrup Grumman IT / TASC

Mike Dean, BBN Technologies

David Martin, SRI International

Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California, USA

Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany

Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA

Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA

Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds, UK

John Stell, University of Leeds, UK

Matthew Perry, University of Georgia, USA

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