Ontology-based geospatial information sharing and integration(.pptVIP

A preliminary study on geo-ontology and its application A Preliminary Study on Geo-ontology and Its Aapplication Huang Maojun School of Resource and Environment Science Wuhan University huangmaojun@ Overview Introduction Philosophical ontology IS-ontology Geo-ontology Geo-ontology representaiton languages Ontology-driven GIS Ontology-based information sharing and integration Summary Introduction Ontology is used recently more and more in GIScience. Is ontology a buzzword or a real paradigm shift? Research groups: Prof. Mark, Smith, Egenhofer (NCGIA) Prof. Frank (Technical University Vienna) Prof. Kavouras (National Technical University of Athens) Prof. Kuhn (University of Munster) SPIRIT Project (Six Universities) UCGIS’s action: In 2000, it proposed Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science as its emerging research theme In its 2002 research agenda, spatial ontologies was one of ten long-term research challenges Introduction Important Conferences: EuroConference on ontology and epistemology for spatial data standards (2000) COSIT (1999, 2001 and 2003) GIScience conference (2000, 2002 and 2004) Workshop on Geo-ontology (2002) Workshop on fundamental issues in spatial and geographical ontologie(2003) Philosophical ontology IS-ontology Philosophical ontology is defined as: that branch of philosophy which deals with the nature and the organisation of reality. (Guarino and Giaretta, 1995) the science of what is, of the kinds and structures of objects,properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality. (Smtith, 2001) When ontology used in information science, we name it IS-ontology: IS-ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization. (Gruber,1993) IS-ontology is a logical theory acco