eSI Public Lecture: "Dynamizing Spatial Semantics" by Werner Kuhn

08 February, 2008 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

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Dr Werner Kuhn Professor of Geoinformatics Muenster Semantic Interoperability Lab University of Muenster The e-Science Institute is delighted to host a public lecture by Dr Werner Kuhn. The public lecture is open to all interested parties in academia and industry. There is no need to register for this event and those attending the lecture are invited to join us for wine and canapés at at 17:00. This Public Lecture is scheduled to be webcast live. For further information see below.

Dr Werner Kuhn

Abstract

A common thread through the 2007 e-Science Theme "Spatial Semantics for Automating Geographic Information Processes" has been the question how processes affect the meaning of spatial information. For example, we have studied how the function of objects (like buildings or vehicles) determines their categorization and how change of meaning over time can be modelled. In this final theme presentation, I will draw some conclusions on the growing role of dynamic theories and models of spatial semantics.

Biography

Dr. Werner Kuhn has been a professor of Geoinformatics at the University of Muenster ( Germany) since 1996. He leads the Muenster Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL: http://musil.uni-muenster.de), a group of a dozen researchers pursuing the idea of semantic reference systems for geographic information. The current research projects of MUSIL address the ontological nature of geospatial observations, the semantic annotation of geoprocessing services, spatio-temporal modelling of trust in social networks, handling of quality information in schema mappings, and similarity measures for georeferenced information. Most projects are funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and the European Commission (recent projects: GIPSIE, ACE-GIS, BRIDGE-IT, SWING). Werner’s own research focuses on foundational ontologies for space and time. Between 1998 and 2000, Werner was the Technical Director Europe of the Open Geospatial Consortium. He holds a PhD in Surveying Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and was a post-doctoral researcher at the US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and the Technical University Vienna.

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