Semantic Technologies

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Meetings:
- 4th Tuesday of each month at 4pm Eastern
- GoToMeeting: https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/976796333
- Phone Access: United States: +1 (872) 240-3212
- Access Code: 976-796-333

Contact Chair:
- Tom Narock, Chair, tnarock@marymount.edu
- Beth Huffer, Co-Chair, beth@lingualogica.net

Ontology Repositories

Vision of the Semantic Technologies Committee

Promote research and development of semantic technologies in support of Earth science data discovery, dissemination, and analysis
Collaborate with ESIP members, working groups, clusters, and standing committees on semantic related topics
Foster sharing and reuse of ontologies and controlled vocabularies
To provide a collaborative environment for the development of ontologies and ontology-based standards
To maintain a long-term agenda and roadmap for evaluation of semantic technologies within ESIP
To collaborate with external agencies, on behalf of ESIP, in regards to semantic technologies

The committee's strategic plan is available here: Semantic Technologies Strategic Vision

Resources for ESIP's overall Strategic Plan:

Liaisons to external groups

Ruth Duerr - EarthCube Semantics Working Group
Brandon Whitehead - Open Geospatial Consortium and RDA, with a particular focus on GeoSciML, ESD WG and HydroWG, RDA Provenance Group
Soren Scott - RDA Provenance Working Group
Stephen Richard - RDA Vocab Services, Terminology IG, and DataType Registry Working Groups
Stace Beaulieu - USGS CDI Semantic Web Working Group
Adam Shepherd - The Ontolog Community
Lewis McGibbney - W3C+OGC Spatial Data on the Web (SDW)
Bhaskar Ramachandran - The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), http://www.iaoa.org/
Pascal Hitzler - Ontology Design & Patterns Association

Projects of Note

cloud computing ontology portal ontology governance software evaluation