Chairs:
Alejandra Garcia-Rojas M. (Ontos AG) alejandra.garciarojas@ontos.com
Robert Isele or Rene Pietzsch
Jens Lehmann (AKSW, University of Leipzig) - lehmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST
Description of the Workshop
“Geospatial technology, information, and services are addressing some of the major priorities of
our nations, adding value to productivity, reducing costs and enabling GDP growth in the process.”
Prof. Arup Dasgupta, in Geospatial World, May 2013
In recent years, Semantic Web technologies have strengthened their position in the areas of data and knowledge management. Standards for organizing and querying semantic information, such as RDF(S) and SPARQL are adopted by large academic communities, while corporate vendors adopt semantic technologies to organize, expose, exchange and retrieve their datasets as Linked Data.
Moreover, a large number of currently available datasets (both RDF and conventional) contain geospatial information, which is of high importance in several application scenarios, e.g., navigation, tourism, or social media. Examples include DBpedia, Geonames, OSM and its RDF counterpart, LinkedGeoData. RDF stores have become robust and scalable enough to support volumes of billions of records (RDF triples) but traditional geospatial data management systems still significantly outperform them in efficiency and scalability. On the other hand, GIS systems can benefit from Linked Data principles (e.g. schema agility, interoperability).
GeoLD will provide the opportunity for the Linked Data community to focus on the emerging need for efficient, effective and efficient production, management and utilization of Geospatial information within Linked Data. Emphasis will be given to works describing novel methodologies, algorithms and tools that advance the current state of the art with respect to efficiency or effectiveness. We welcome both mature solutions, as well as ongoing works that present promising results.
Our HashTag: #geold15
Topics
Interoperability and Integration
- Geospatial Linked Data and standards (GeoSPARQL, INSPIRE, W3C, OGC)
- Extraction/transformation of Geospatial Linked Data from conventional sources
- Integration (schema mapping, interlinking, fusion) techniques for Geospatial RDF Data
- Enrichment of Linked Data with Geospatial information
- Quality, Provenance and Evolution of Geospatial Linked Data
Big Geospatial Data Management
- Distributed solutions for Geospatial Linked Data management (storing, querying, mapping, etc.)
- Algorithms and tools for large scale, scalable Geospatial Linked Data management
- Efficient Iindexing and Querying of Geospatial Linked Data
- Geospatial-specific Reasoning on RDF Ddata
- Ranking techniques on querying Geospatial RDF Data
- Advanced querying capabilities on Geospatial RDF Data
Utilization of Geospatial Linked Data
- Geospatial Linked Data in social web platforms and applications
- Visualization models and interfaces for browsing, authoring and querying Geospatial Linked Data
- Real world applications/use cases/paradigms using (exposing, utilizing) Geospatial Linked Data
- Evaluation/comparison of tools/libraries/frameworks for Geospatial Linked Data management
Program
A preliminary program can be accessed at http://geold.geoknow.eu.