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Introduction

It is a commonly quoted statistic that up to 80% of information is spatially referenced in some way. Yet the spatial aspect of much of that information is unusable for computing due to its latent semantics that are either unexpressed or expressed informally, and to the limitations of reasoners and formal languages for representing spatial semantics. Currently, discovering, processing, analysing and visualising geographic data requires experts that understand the meaning of geospatial data and can intelligently accomplish these tasks. For example, integrating remotely sensed imagery landcover data for decision supporting workflows requires experts to understand and manually reformat and analyse the data. Expressing the semantics of geospatial data in computable form will enhance data and knowledge discovery, improve integration of different types of spatial information, support data harmonisation, automate procedures for processing, analysing and visualising geographic information and ultimately facilitate decision making for eScience.

News and Events

Call for Visitors

Key to the themes at eSI are research conversations with visitors to the eSI who contribute to the theme activities. If you are a researcher with an interest in issues of representing and utilising the semantics of spatial information and would like to visit eSI sometime in 2007, please have a look at the eSI Visitors Programme. Alternatively, there are also funding opportunities available to vist us at Edinburgh University from The Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Visitors

The following people will be visiting us at eSI as part of the theme:

Theme Events

Other Events

The following events might be of interest in the context of the theme:

Presentations and Reports

eSI Public Lecture: Why on Earth do we need spatial semantics?, Dr. Femke Reitsma. e-Science Institute, 1 March 2007

eSI Visitor Seminar: Semantically-Aware Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis for Humanitarian and Natural Crisis Management, Dr. Kristin Stock. e-Science Institute, 31 May 2007

eSI Theme Lecture: Abstraction Requirements in Geospatial Applications, Prof. Werner Kuhn. e-Science Institute, 1 June 2007

eSI Public Lecture: Spatiotemporal Queries for Environmental Monitoring with Wireless Geosensor Networks, Dr. Matt Duckham. e-Science Institute, 18 June 2007

Technical report: Brodaric, B. (2008). Science Knowledge Infrastructure Ontology, version 3.0, UK e-Science Technical report series.

About the Theme

Theme Leaders