9:15 - 9:30 Welcome and Introduction9:30 Session I: Philosophical and Formal Fundaments
9:30 – 9:50 Anthony Galton, Integrating Fields and Objects in Information
Science
9:50 - 10:10 Andrew Frank, A Linguistically Justified Proposal for a
Spatio-Temporal Ontology
10:10 - 10:20 Matthew West, Replaceable Parts: A four Dimensional Analysis
10:20 - 10:30 Nico Van de Weghe, Mapping Time in 2-D Space
10:30 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 11:05 Elena Camossi, Issues on Modelling Spatial Granularity
11:05 - 11:15 Hedda Schmidtke, Restricting Scalability with Granularity
11:20 Session II: Design Foundations for Geo-Ontologies
11:20 - 11:40 Eleni Tomai, Pivotal Issues in Designing Geographic Ontologies
11:40 - 11:50 Boyan Brodaric, Representing Geo-Scientific Domain Concepts
11:50 - 12:00 Jenny Harding, From Real-World Views to Geographical Information
12:00 - 12:30 PLENARY DISCUSSION
Assessemnt of key problems in the design of practical
spatial and geographic ontologies.
For reference you may wish to see the report of last
year's Geo-Ontology workshop (PDF).
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Session III: Cognitive Foundations
14:00 - 14:10 Werner Kuhn, Grounding Ontologies
14:10 - 14:20 Jeffrey Galko, Ad Hoc Categories and Geospatial Ontology
14:20 - 14:30 David Mark, Ethnophysiography
14:30 - 14:45 Andrew Turk, Talking in COADs
14:45 - 15:30 DISCUSSION BREAKOUT SESSIONS
On the key issues identified before lunch
15:30 - 15:50 COFFEE BREAK
15:50 - 16:15 Report back from breakout sessions
A representative of each group will report on the
state of the art and future research agenda in
a key topic area.
16:15 Session IV: Foundations of Interoperability and Applications
16:15 - 16:25 Florian Probst, Image Schemata-Based Domain Ontologies
16:25 - 16:35 Paulo Pires, Measuring Semantic Differences between Experts'
and Non-Experts' Conceptualizations
16:35 - 16:45 Michel Simonet, Ontology and Geographical Information System
for End-Stage Renal Disease: the SIGNE
16:45 - 17:15 FINAL PLENARY DISCUSSION
on future projects and collaborations in spatial and geographic
ontologies.
Please mail any further suggestions you have for the schedule.