European GeoInformatics Workshop

In Association with eSI Thematic Programme: Spatial Semantics for Automating Geographic Information Processes

07 March, 07 09:00 AM - 09 March, 07 04:30 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Organiser: John Laxton

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=712

Preliminary outline programme


Wednesday 7 th March
Informatics for geoscience
Session convenor: John Laxton (British Geological Survey)
Programme:
	09.00 – 09.30	Registration & Coffee
	09.30 – 09.45	Introduction
Session 1: Geoscience knowledge, ontologies & semantics (Pt 1) (Chair: John Laxton)
	09.45 – 10.10	Ian Jackson (Director of Information, BGS) - Geoinformatics - a geological survey (management) perspective - or why do we keep paying your salaries?
	10.10 – 10.35	Kristine Asch ( Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)) - Geological Europe on-line: the stony path to a harmonized web-enabled pan-European geological spatial database
	10.35 – 11.00	Vic Loudon & John Laxton (BGS) – Geological reasoning and the solid Earth systems model
	11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
Session 2: Geoscience knowledge, ontologies & semantics (Pt 2) (Chair: Steve Richard)
	11.30 – 11.55	Krishna Sinha (President of Geological Society of America, Division of Geoinformatics) - Geo-ontology: empowering new discoveries in earth sciences
	11.55 – 12.20	Boyan Brodaric (Natural Resources Canada) - The pragmatics of geo-ontology, and the ontology of geo-pragmatics
	12.20 – 12.45	Mark Gahegan ( GeoVISTA Center) – Geoscientific knowledge: The limits of ontology and other ways of knowing
	12.45 – 13.10	Peter Fox ( National Center for Atmospheric Research) - Using Semantically-Enabled Data Frameworks for Data Integration in Virtual Observatories
	13.10 – 14.10	Lunch
Session 3: Integration & Collaboration (Pt 1) (Chair: Krishna Sinha)
	14.10 – 14.35	Robert Huber (Institute for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen) - Open Geo-Archives: Integrating earth science data centers into research portals
	14.35 – 15.00	Jens Klump (GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam) - Semantic linking of data and journal publications in the STD-DOI project
	15.00 – 15.25	Chris Higgins ( EDINA) - Motiive - an INSPIRE Data Harmonisation Pilot Project
	15.25 – 15.50	Jean-Jacques Serrano (BRGM, Orleans) - An experiment of schema mapping for earthquakes between France and Italy with multi-lingual issues : a first step towards INSPIRE implementation.
	15.50 – 16.20	Coffee
Session 4: Integration & Collaboration (Pt 2) (Chair: Boyan Brodaric)
	16.20 – 16.45	Steve Richards (Arizona Geological Survey) - Geoinformatics coordination efforts between the USGS and US State Geological surveys
	16.45 – 17.10	Lesley Wyborn (Geoscience Australia) – AuScope: a new initiative to build an Australian Earth Science Grid
	17.10 – 17.35	Tim Duffy & John Laxton (BGS) – The benefits of developing GeoSciML to the global geoscience community
	17.35 – 18.00	Robin Smith ( University of Sheffield) - A Framework for Collaborative GI Science
	18.00 -	Whisky tasting
Thursday 8 th March
Grid technologies for geoscience
Session convenor: Stuart Ballard (National Institute for Environmental eScience, University of Cambridge)
Programme:
	09.00	Brief Introduction to the session
	09.00 - 09.30	Prof Martin Dove ( Cambridge University) - Community grid infrastructures for geosciences and materials modelling
	09.30 -09.50	Mike Mineter (TOE, National eScience Centre) - European and UK eScience resources
	09.50 – 10.20	Phil James ( Newcastle University - "SEE/SAW-GEO: Towards Orchestration of Secure Grid-enabled Geospatial Web Services "
	10.20 – 10.50	Isabella Bovolo ( Newcastle University)- The MEDIGRID Distributed Framework for Multi-risk Assessment of Natural Hazards
	10.50 – 11.20	Coffee
	11.20 – 11.50	Monique Petitdidier (Centre d'etude des Environments Terrestre et Planetaires) - Earth Science applications ported on EGEEII and DEGREE
	11.50 – 12.20	Paolo Mazzetti (IMAA-CNR {Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisa Ambientale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche}) - CYCLOPS Project: Implementation of Geosciences services on Grid platform for GMES applications
	12.20 – 13.00	Dogan Seber (San Diego Super Computing) - "GEONGrid: A Cyberinfrastructure facility to advance Earth science research and education"
	13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
Fundamental Topics in Geospatial Semantics
Session convenor: Femke Reitsma ( University of Edinburgh)
Programme:
Session 1: The Current State of Play
	14.00 – 14.45	Joshua Lieberman (vice president of Traverse Technologies, W3C, OGC) - Geospatial Semantic Web: Is there life after geo:lat and geo:long?
	14.45 – 15.20	Chris Jones ( Cardiff University, SPIRIT project coordinator) - Geographical Web Search Engines
	15.20 – 15.50	Coffee
	15.50 – 16.25	Marc Wick (geonames.org) - Geonames and the Semantic Web: Implementation and Ontology of a large worldwide Gazetteer
	16.25 – 17.30	Break-out sessions
	19.30 -	Workshop dinner, George Hotel
Friday 9 th March
Session 2: Key Challenges
	09.00 – 09.45	Tony Cohn – ( University of Leeds) Qualitative representations of the geospatial world
	09.45 – 10.20	Peter Edwards ( University of Aberdeen) – Semantics and environmental modelling (title still to be advised)
	10.00 – 10.50	Coffee
	10.50 – 11.25	Katalin Kovacs and Sheng Zhou (Ordnance Survey) - Key challenges in expressing and utilising geospatial semantics at Ordnance Survey
	11.25 – 12.30	Break-out sessions
	12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
Session 3: Looking to the Future
	13.30 – 14.15	Tom Gruber ( University of Stanford) - Challenges for using Geospatial Information on the Semantic Web
	14.15 – 15.00	Craig Lee (Open Grid Forum) - Geospatial Information, Fundamental Grid Challenges, and the Role of Standards Organizations
	15.00 – 15.20	Coffee
	15.20 – 16.00	Break-out / Research agenda
	16.00 – 16.30	Feedback / Summary

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This event is hosted by eSI in association with the following organisations:
National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS)

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