W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group

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W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group

• Presenter Luis Bermudez (SURA)
• OGC TC Meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA
• June 22-26 2009

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W3C Incubator Activity

• Rapid start of work in an Incubator Group (XG)
• Lightweight process, initiated by W3C Members
• Rapid finish to produce an XG Report in under one
  year
• Smooth transition to the W3C Recommendation
  Track, if desired and approved
• Use of W3C infrastructure (mailing lists,
  communications tools, Web site) and
  consensus-building within W3C culture.

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W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group

• Started April 2009
• Begin the formal process of producing ontologies
  that define the capabilities of sensors and
  sensor networks
• Develop best practices for harmonizing OGC Sensor
  Web Enablement (SWE) Technologies with sensor and
  sensor network ontologies.

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Sensor Ontology
Holger Need screenshot

• Initial version of the Semantic Sensor Network
  ontology, edited by Michael Compton and Holger
  Neuhaus of the CSIRO Australia

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Participants

• Kno.e.sis Center Cory Henson, Amit Sheth
• CSIRO Michael Compton, Amit Parashar, Kerry
  Taylor and Laurent Lefort
• CSIRO Holger Neuhaus and Michael Compton
• UPM Ontological Engineering Group Oscar Corcho
• IAM Group, University of Southampton Kevin R.
  Page
• CTIC Foundation Rodrigo García, Víctor Peláez
• Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of
  Münster Krzysztof Janowicz
• MBARI / Marine Metadata interoperability Project
  John Graybeal
• SURA / Oceans IE Luis Bermudez

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• If you are a W3C Member we welcome your
  participation
• http//www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/
• Co-Chairs
• Holger Neuhaus Holger.Neuhaus_at_csiro.au
• Amit Sheth amit.sheth_at_wright.edu
• Kerry Taylor Kerry.Taylor_at_csiro.au
• Luis contact Information
• Luis Bermudez bermudez_at_sura.org