INTEROP--Spatial Ontology Community of Practice: an Interdisciplinary Network to Support Geospatial Data Sharing, Integration, and Interoperability

奖项：0955816PI：Nancy Weigand项目标题：空间本体论实践社区：支持地理空间数据共享、集成和互操作(Interop)的跨学科网络地理空间数据描述地理特征的位置信息，广泛存在于许多学科中，对于经济发展、自然资源、环境保护和应急响应等不同的应用来说是基础。但是，由于地理空间数据的异质性，重复使用地理空间数据仍然是困难的。尽管国家空间数据基础设施和地理空间一站式分发数据等举措已经取得进展，但由于使用了不同的社区意见，现在有必要解决各种数据集中的标准协调和对相关概念含义的商定问题。语义互操作性已被认为是研究界需要的协作的绊脚石。作为一种解决方案，设计良好的形式化本体依赖于社区之间就给定问题领域的概念和关系的明确表示达成的协议，可以用作弥合社区差距的分析工具。不幸的是，许多社区缺乏自己开发、测试和传播此类本体的专业知识，而且，公共本体需要在一系列社区之间达成一致。该网络的目的是为地理空间社区创造这样的机会，并将成果推广到相关社区。该网络可以被视为覆盖通过该网络链接的其他更具体的域的保护伞。该网络基于现有的空间本体实践社区(SOCoP)网络，该网络已经拥有来自学术界、政府和工业界的活跃参与者的核心小组。该网络的机制包括一个在线协作环境，一个带有工具的地理空间本体论储存库；为广泛的地理空间社区举办教育和参与性研讨会，以征求对用例的意见；就一个或两个选定领域举行较小的工作组会议，以协作开发跨用例的本体论；以及与标准小组互动，以正式发布本体论、演示和研究活动。SOCOP互操作网络还将通过展示语义合作建模的力量，在科学和地方社区提供跨领域标准、数据共享和信息管理方面的培训和推广。还将开发关于地理空间本体论的教育部分。该项目将有助于建立一个模型，将语义纳入国家空间数据基础设施的下一阶段

Award: 0955816PI: Nancy WeigandProject Title: Spatial Ontology Community of Practice: an Interdisciplinary Network to Support Geospatial Data Sharing, Integration and Interoperability (INTEROP)Geospatial data, which describe location information for geographic features, are pervasive across many disciplines and fundamental for diverse applications, such as economic development, natural resources, environmental protection, and emergency response. But, re-using geospatial data remains difficult because of the heterogeneity. Although progress has been made by initiatives such as the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) and Geospatial One-Stop to distribute data, it is now necessary to address issues of standards harmonization and agreement on the meanings of relevant concepts from diverse data sets due to the use of different community views. Semantic interoperability has been recognized as a stumbling block to collaboration needed by research communities. As a solution, well designed, formal ontologies, relying on agreements between communities on unambiguous representation of concepts and relationships for a given problem area, can be used as an analytic tool to bridge community gaps. Unfortunately, many communities lack the expertise to develop, test, and disseminate such ontologies on their own, and, further, common ontologies require agreement across a range of communities. The purpose of this Network is to create such opportunities for the geospatial community and extend the results to related communities. The Network can be considered as an umbrella over other more specific domains linked through the Network. The Network is based on an existing Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) network that already has a core group of active participants from academia, government, and industry. Mechanisms for the Network include an on-line collaboration environment, a repository for geospatial ontologies with tools; educational and participatory workshops for a broad geospatial community to solicit input on use cases, smaller working group sessions on one or two chosen domains to collaborate on developing ontologies that work across use cases, and interactions with standards groups for formal publishing of ontologies, demonstrations, and research activities. The SOCoP INTEROP network will also provide training and outreach in cross-area standards, data-sharing, and information management in scientific and local communities by demonstrating the power of cooperative modeling of semantics. An educational component on geospatial ontologies will also be developed. The project will contribute to a model to incorporate semantics into the next phase of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure