Geospatial Ontology Repository Mike Dean mdeanbbn com SOCo

Geospatial Ontology Repository Mike Dean mdean@bbn. com SOCo. P Workshop 2011 1

Geospatial Ontology Repository • Goals • Provide examples • Demonstrate best practices • Support re-use and extension • Initially populated with ontologies from Geospatial Ontology Trade Study, Ordnance Survey, Geo. SPARQL, etc. • Soliciting contributions from the community • (Soon to be available at) http: //socop. oor. net SOCo. P Workshop 2011 2

Repository Infrastructure • Building on work being developed by the Open Ontology Repository (OOR) Initiative – http: //openontologyrepository. org/ – OOR Charter: Promote the global use and sharing of ontologies by: – Establishing a hosted registry-repository – Enabling and facilitating open, federated, collaborative ontology repositories – Establishing best practices for expressing interoperable ontologies and taxonomy work in registry-repositories • OOR in turn leverages software from Bio. Portal – http: //oor-01. cim 3. net/ SOCo. P Workshop 2011 3

Browsing and Searching Ontologies SSO 2011 4

Ontology Visualization SSO 2011 5

Ontology Mapping SSO 2011 6

OOR Federation • Ability to link multiple repositories together – Uni- or bi-directional • Initial work on "homogeneous" federation between OOR instances • Planned work on "heterogeneous" federation between OOR and other ontology repositories and development tools, such as – Knoodl collaborative ontology development environment – And other SPARQL endpoints SOCo. P Workshop 2011 7