- From: John Goodwin <John.Goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:28:41 -0000
- To: <public-xg-geo@w3.org>, <member-xg-geo@w3.org>
Hi, I understand Josh is away today so he has asked me to lead the teleconference in his place. I'd like to concentrate on a couple of issues: 1) Best practices for spatial/geographic ontologies. As with programming you cannot just sit down with a java development environment and create good software unless you know something about patterns and methods. We think to make the most of OWL (and related technologies) we need more good ontologies. We need to set down some good modelling guide lines and methodologies. These could specialise some of the work that is going on in the semantic web best practices group for the geospatial domain. Ontology methodologies is something we have been thinking about at Ordnance Survey for some time. 2) Usecases: it would be interesting to see what people intended to use semantic web technologies for in the geospatial domain. We are interested in semantic integration between different datasets, and data repurposing using ontologies. Do other people have interesting usecases? Hope to speak to you all later. Please join on the phone is you can as I do not have the ICQ thing set up at the moment. I hope this isn't a problem for anyone. Regards, John http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/ <http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/> Teleconference: 17h30 GMT +1.617.761.6200, +33.4.89.06.34.99 or +44.117.370.6152; passcode: 43694 (GEOXG) IRC channel: irc.w3.org, port 6665, channel #geoxg . This email is only intended for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Unless stated otherwise, the contents of this email are personal to the writer and do not represent the official view of Ordnance Survey. Nor can any contract be formed on Ordnance Survey's behalf via email. We reserve the right to monitor emails and attachments without prior notice. Thank you for your cooperation. Ordnance Survey Romsey Road Southampton SO16 4GU Tel: 08456 050505 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
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