Weaving a Fabric for the Geospatial Web
The purpose of this workshop is to solicit input and feedback on carrying out the objectives of the W3C Geospatial Incubator Group (Geospatial XG) . These objectives center on leveraging existing and new W3C standards to enrich the Web with geospatial knowledge. The objectives also face a challenge of connecting the expertise and expectations of two communities, the Semantic Web community and the Geospatial Web community.
Workshop invitees represent one, other, or both communities in the Boston area with interests in developing the common ground between them.This workshop will do two things. First, it provides an introduction to the ways standards organizations are looking at geographic information and services on the Web. And second, it offers a forum to discuss how standards and research in this area should inform one another, particularly in the Cambridge-Harvard-MIT context.
Agenda:
| Time | Topic |
| 10:00-10:15 | Introduction to the Geospatial XG |
| 10:15-10:30 | Geo and GeoRSS: Geotagging and Geomashup |
| 10:30-11:00 | Participant stories |
| 11:00-11:30 | Roles of W3C and OGC in envisioning and building the Geospatial Semantic Web |
| 11:30-12:00+ | Discussion of next research and standardization steps. |
Friday morning, 17 November from 10am EST to noon in the Star conference room, Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Contacts:
Joshua Lieberman
Geospatial XG Coordinator
Principal, Traverse Technologies
jlieberman@traversetechnologies.com
tel +1 (617) 395-7766 fax: +1 (815) 717-981
Raj Singh
Open Geospatial Consortium
rsingh@opengeospatial.org
+1 (617) 642-9372