FOGI Workshop Schedule

Thursday 17th April
09:30 - 10:00	Coffee
10:00 - 10:30	Introductions
10:30 - 11:30	Brandon Bennett, Allan Third, Dave Mallenby, Overview of the FOGI Project (Brandon's slides, Allan's slides)
11:30 - 11:50	Coffee break
11:50 - 13:00	GEOGRAPHIC SEMANTICS: Problems, Solutions and Methodologies Ronald Denaux and Vania Dimitrova ROO: A Tool to Assist Domain Experts with Ontology Construction Kristin Stock Ontology-Schmology: in search of informal semantics (slides, position paper) Anthony Beck, Project VISTA: Integrating Heterogeneous Utility Data, a very brief overview (slides)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	VAGUENESS: How can vague geographic concepts be handled within information systems? Andy Evans, Geography as War and Piece (position paper, web page) Brandon Bennett, The Standpoint Theory of Vaguenss (slides) Allan Third Vagueness and Grounding: the FOGI Approach, (slides) Open Discussion on Vagueness Issues
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30	GROUNDING: How does geographic terminology relate to the world (and to geographic data)? Antony Galton, What Makes a Good Footprint? Mehul Bhatt, From Quantitative to Qualitative Spaces (position paper, slides, additional slides ) David Mallenby GEOLOG: bridging the gap from data to ontology Open Discussion on Grounding Issues

Friday 18th April

09:00 - 10:50 PLACES and ENVIRONMENTS:
What kinds of representation are appropriate for describing the world in terms of places and environments?

Norman Morrison, Environmental Ontology and the EnvO Project (slides)

Florian Twaroch and Mark Hall, Quantitative Representations of Place (slides, position paper )
Werner Kuhn, Grounding in Qualities (slides, position paper )
Brandon Bennett and Pragya Agarwal, Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of `Place' (slides, COSIT-07 paper)

10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 - 12:30 FUTURE COLLABORATIONS AND PROJECTS

12:30 - 13:15 Lunch

13:30 - 17:00 Excursion to Bolton Abbey and the Valley of Desolation.
(Those need to get back sooner can cut the walk short and return a bit earlier.)

Friday 18th April
09:00 - 10:50	PLACES and ENVIRONMENTS: What kinds of representation are appropriate for describing the world in terms of places and environments? Norman Morrison, Environmental Ontology and the EnvO Project (slides) Florian Twaroch and Mark Hall, Quantitative Representations of Place (slides, position paper ) Werner Kuhn, Grounding in Qualities (slides, position paper ) Brandon Bennett and Pragya Agarwal, Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of `Place' (slides, COSIT-07 paper)
10:50 - 11:20	Coffee break
11:20 - 12:30	FUTURE COLLABORATIONS AND PROJECTS
12:30 - 13:15	Lunch
13:30 - 17:00	Excursion to Bolton Abbey and the Valley of Desolation. (Those need to get back sooner can cut the walk short and return a bit earlier.)