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<h1><span class="trail"><a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a>
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> W3C Geospatial Incubator Group</span></h1>
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<h2><a name="News" id="News" shape="rect">News</a></h2>
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<p>2007-10-31: The XG is now closed.</p>
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<p>2007-10-31: The XG has published two XGRs:
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<a href="XGR-geo-20071023/">Geospatial Vocabulary</a>
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and
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<a href="XGR-geo-ont-20071023/">Geospatial Ontologies</a>.</p>
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<p>2006-07-05: Geospatial XG launched (public <a
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href="/News/2006#item122">W3C news</a>, Member only <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2006JulSep/0000">Call
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for Participation</a>)</p>
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<p>August 2006: Geospatial group has begun work on the Geo vocabulary update
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with materials from <a href="http://www.georss.org">GeoRSS</a></p>
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<p>2006-11-6: <a
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href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/partnerships/research/research/terracognita.html">Terra
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Cognita</a> workshop at <a
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href="http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/">ISWC'2006</a> considers topics, work
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items, and follow-on activities for this Geospatial Incubator Group</p>
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<p>2006-11-17: Geospatial XG <a href="F2F/20061117.html">workshop</a> to be
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held at MIT</p>
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<p>2006-12-7: Discussion of coordination between the Geospatial XG and the
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new Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (<a
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href="http://www.visualknowledge.com/wikikey/A142033S3496911">SOCoP</a>)</p>
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<p>2006-12-12: F2F Meeting to be held (session of the Information Communities
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and Semantics Working Group) at the <a
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href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0612tc">OGC Technical Committee
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Meeting</a> in San Diego</p>
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<p>2007-02-25: There is a new draft of the Geo vocabulary update (<a
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href="http://mapbureau.com/neogeo/neogeo.owl">neogeo</a>) for review and soon
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to be a draft Note. Group members and other interested parties are encouraged
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href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/Wiki/Geo_Update">Geo Update wiki
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page</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="Deliverables" id="Deliverables"
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<p>1. <a href="XGR-geo-20071023/">Geospatial Vocabulary</a></p>
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<p>2. <a href="XGR-geo-ont-20071023/">Geospatial Ontologies</a></p>
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<p>3. <a href="./GeoWGCharter.html">Draft Geospatial WG charter</a></p>
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<h2><a name="Meetings" id="Meetings" shape="rect">Meetings</a></h2>
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<p>2006.11.6: <a
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Cognita Workshop</a></p>
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<p>2006.11.17: F2F Meeting and <a href="F2F/20061117.html">Workshop</a> at
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MIT Stata Center</p>
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<p>2006.12.12: F2F Meeting at the <a
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href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0612tc">OGC Technical Committee
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Meeting</a> in San Diego</p>
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<p>2007.3.7: F2F Meeting opportunity at the <a
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href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/712/">European Geonformatics
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Workshop</a> in Edinburgh</p>
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<p>2007.4.16: F2F Meeting at the <a
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href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0704tc">OGC Technical Committee
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Meeting</a> in Ottawa</p>
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<h3>Weekly teleconference</h3>
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<p>A weekly teleconference is held for this group on the Zakim teleconference
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bridge:</p>
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<h3>IRC Channel #geoxg</h3>
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<p>Hosted on irc.w3.org:6665</p>
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<p><a href="minutes/20061030.html">30 October 2006</a></p>
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<p><a href="minutes/20061113.html">13 November 2006</a></p>
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<p><a href="minutes/20061120.html">20 November 2006</a></p>
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<p><a href="minutes/20061211.html">11 December 2006</a></p>
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<p><a href="minutes/20061218.html">18 December 2006</a></p>
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<p><a href="minutes/20070122.html">22 January 2007</a></p>
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<p><a href="minutes/20070226.html">26 February 2007</a></p>
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<h2><a name="About" id="About" shape="rect">About the Geospatial XG</a></h2>
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<p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/">Geospatial Incubator Group</a>,
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part of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/">Incubator
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Activity</a>, is to begin addressing issues of location and geographical
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properties of resources for the Web of today and tomorrow, by taking a
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concrete step to update the W3C GEO vocabulary, laying the groundwork for a
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more comprehensive geospatial ontology, and formulating a proposal for a W3C
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Local Web working group to develop recommendations to further the Local
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Web.</p>
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<p>Location and geographical properties of resources has always been
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something of a dilemma for the World Wide Web, which has served so well to
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unlink the global identity of a resource from its physical location on the
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globe. One of the Web's greatest values is its capacity for enabling the
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growth of communities which are not constrained by distance and geography.
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Nonetheless, physical location is at least an essential property if not a
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part of the identity of any real entity. When appropriate, the Local Web of
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resources identified by location and geography is an essential aspect of Web
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discovery and communication.</p>
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<p>Issues in geographical representation are many and often parallel those in
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the Web as a whole, from resource identifiers to machine-readable semantics.
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Just as there are both physical (IP) and conceptual (domain namespace)
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locators on the World Wide Web, there are physical (latitude-longitude
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coordinates and street addresses) and conceptual (placenames and political
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divisions) locators on the Local Web. Geospatial concepts and relationships
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are at once as possible and difficult to define with formal semantics as
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those which express any other resource meaning. Geospatial aspects of
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progress from the Web of text and tags to the Semantic Web are just as
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challenging and important.</p>
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<p>There are, however, unique aspects to the geospatial representation of
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information which merit special attention in the advancement of the Web as a
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whole. The map is not the terrain; a geographic coordinate pair is only a
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terse representation of a geographical entity. Something as simple as a
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geotagged Web page “a representation of a representation“ raises
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unresolved semantic, syntactic, and engineering issues which have until now
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hindered full development of the Local Web. Yet another set of issues is
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raised by the fact that it is not always desirable or “safe“ for
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world to know where a resource lives. Some of the gateways from the World
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Wide Web to the Local Web require gates and gatekeepers.</p>
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<address>
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<a href="mailto:jlieberman@traversetechnologies.com" shape="rect">Joshua
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Lieberman</a>, Geospatial Incubator Group Chair <br />
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<small>$Revision: 1.26 $ of $Date: 2010/07/21 18:00:51 $</small>
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