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Use of Ontologies within the Open Geospatial Consortium

Luis Bermudez. Ph.D. Director of Interoperability Certification 2012-11-01

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• Clarifications – OGC – Ontologies • Need of URIs at OGC • Management of OGC URIs • GeoSPARQL • Cool Experiments

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475 volunteer organizations 4307 Users 60 Standards

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Some data use in Science is served via OGC standards – netCDF – KML – WMS – SOS – WPS

® 9 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium ® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium SST, sea water temperature, water temperature, temp ...

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium SST Records. Supersonic 1978 formed transport Record Label (SST)

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium Also in metadata elements

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• Is a specification of a conceptualization – Gruber • We explicit identify a class and a resource and make a URI • Keep it simple • We create classes and properties to fit our needs • We are not creating upper upper formal ontologies

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium OGC Produces Hundreds of artifacts per year

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium 64 Change Requests were submitted in 2011

® 16 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium Formal identification

® 17 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium IANA RFC 5165

® 18 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium URLs or URNs ?

http URIs ✔

® 19 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium We identify more than documents

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1. Vocabularies are formalized using RDF/SKOS 2. Expert users want to connect to a SPARQL endpoint 3. Normal users need a simple interface with basic queries – “find concept by-label” 4. Vocabularies are strongly governed – read-only access for most users 5. Service owner ≠ content URI owner – same content may be hosted in multiple services

® 24 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium • OGC Definition URIs are hosted/ redirected to SISSvoc

http://def.seegrid.csiro.au/sissvoc/ogc-def/concept? labelcontains=water http://www.opengis.net/def/waterml/2.0/medium/PoreWater

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium OGC Naming Authority

• Subcommittee of the Technical Committee (TC) • Manages the register resources • Coordinates with OGC staff the publication of the registry • Every standard that is submitted for publication passes through the OGG-NA

® 26 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium Conclusions OGC URIs

• Some Science Data is published via OGC Standards

• OGC standards now are filled of URIs to identify OGC resources and standards related resources

• Governed and maintained by OGC Naming Authority

® 27 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium OGC GeoSPARQL - A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data

® 28 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql

® 29 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium ® 30 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium Geospatial Properties

® 31 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium Excellent Article

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California National Guard

Monterey Airport Field operator

Prefers Prefers

NGA model - Local USGS model - Topographic The National Map Data Store (LTDS) Mediate (TNM)

Data Data Data Source 1 Source 2 Source n ® 34 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium OWS-8 CCI Architecture

® 35 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium OWS-9 CCI Aviation Client

• Pilots terminology – Using Air Transportation Information Ontology • Includes Pilot Controller Glossary for the JPAMS project (air traffic control procedures)

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium AIXM features

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium AIXM features

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium OWS-9 CCI Aviation Architecture

Air Pilots Traffic Control

Pilot Controller Glossary

Client

Web Feature Web Processing SPARQL Server Service Service

AIXM Data FAA Air Transportation (GML) Information Ontology mappings Glossary and ® AIXM OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium OWS9 Geonames

® OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium OWS-9 CCI

® 41 OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium Thank you

• Luis Bermudez [email protected]

• Blog: Is OGC playing with LinkedData http:// www.opengeospatial.org/blog/1673

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