See also: IRC log
Josh introduced the three deliverables of the XG's charter for the benefit of new arrivals
Jonathon from SRI: interest primarily in ISO 18026 (c.f. SEDRIS) and whether it has relevance to deriving W3C geospatial standards
Bhavani and Alam from UT Dallas: Cybersecurity and GRDF
John Goodwin from OS: Ontologies from geospatial domain knowledge,e.g. hydrology, topography.
Cathy Dolbear from OS: Team leader for linking geospatial holdings to ontologies, including hydrology
Peisheng from GMU, working on translating semantic representations of geospatial domain knowledge into workflows
Raj Singh from OGC: particular interest in making major government and scientific specifications available to a broader audience.
http://129.110.96.150/grdf.pps
John Goodwin: How close is this to GML-RDF? (GML 1 serialization)? - Not yet examined.
Is this mainly RDFS entities, or are more OWL entities being envisioned?
For example, axioms?
Cathy: Could open world assumption issue be addressed by axioms?
Josh: Could open world problems be a result of representing a feature "as a geometry" rather than "with a geometry".
John Goodwin: might look into DOLCE as well in terms of a feature ontology
satoru takagi: modularization
Minimum vocabulary for geographic information to reduce the overlap
ACTION: JoshuaLieberman to reprise results of Terra Cognita workshop for teleconference the Monday after next (13 November)