In their first joint collaboration, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have established the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group. The group aims at investigating and providing guidance for the following challenges (1) how can spatial information best be integrated with other data on the Web; (2) how can machines and people discover that different facts in different datasets relate to the same place or feature, especially when this place is expressed or represented in different ways and at different levels of granularity; (3) and what are existing methods and tools to publish, discover, reuse, and meaningfully integrate spatial data. The group is presently surveying the landscape of existing theories, methods, tools, and standards and is creating a set of best practices for their use.
Organizers
Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Joshua Lieberman, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, USA Kerry Taylor, Australian National University, AU Grant McKenzie, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Song Gao, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Simon Cox, CSIRO, AU
Ed Parsons, Google, UK Programme Committee
Benjamin Adams - The University of Auckland, NZ Payam Barnaghi - University of Surrey, UK Oscar Corcho - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES Tomi Kauppinen - Aalto University School of Science, FI Carsten Keßler - Hunter College, City University of New York, US Adila A. Krisnadhi - Wright State University, US & Universitas Indonesia Werner Kuhn - University of California, Santa Barbara, US Sven Schade - European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre, IT Simon Scheider - University Utrecht, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, NL Christoph Stasch - 52º North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH, DE Workshop on GIScience in the Big Data Age 2012 Spatial Data on the Web Working Group Charter SSN/ Terra Cognita workshop series