Geospatial Semantic Web Blog

Geospatial Ontologies and Languages

• georss: geographically encoded objects in RSS
• Location-formats: links to various location format efforts
• Geo of microformats: a microformat for expressing latitude and longitude information on the web
• Stanford University’s world fact book: a knowledge base covering basic geographic, economic, political, and demographic knowledge about the world’s nations — an older version of the CIA World Fact Book.
• CIA World Fact Book: basic information about the various countries in the World (see also in OWL & DAML)
• W3C RDF Geo Vocabulary: a set of basic RDF vocabularies (based on WGS84) for describing location information. Examples that show how to express geo information in a FOAF document.
• RDF/A Syntax: a collection of attributes for layering RDF on XML languages. See section 6.2 for an example on using RDF/A to express geo information.

Systems and Applications

• gsw: an open-source project that is part of the OGC Semantic Web Interoperability Experiment
• PhotoStuff: an image annotation tool for the Semantic Web
• KnowledgeSmarts: a middle-ware infrastructure for knowledge integration
• Gigateway: a web service aimed at increasing awareness of and access to geographic information in the UK
• Mapping@ProgrammableWeb: discover the latest mashup applications that exploit different Mapping API

Research Organizations and Events

• National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
• GEOS: International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics
• Semantic Reference Systems: geospatial semantic research at UK’s Ordnance Survey
• Networking Geospatial Information Technology for Interoperability and Spatial Ontology: a workshop took place at the National Science Foundation on June 20-22, 2006

Discussion Groups and Forums

• geo-semanticweb-interest: Geospatial Semantic Web Interest Group on Yahoo!Groups
• GIS Forums: talk about anything related to GIS here
• W3C Geo Incubator Group: building standard Geo vocabularies for the Web. See also the group’s mailing list

Articles and Blog Posts

• The Geospatial Web: A Call to Action, Mike Liebhold, O’Reilly Network, May 2005.
• A Design Approach for the Geospatial Web, Julian Bleecker, O’Reilly Network, June 2005.
• Mapping a Revolution with “Mashups”, Elinor Mills, CNet News.Com, November 2005.
• GeoRSS: The Simple Possible “Geo” for the Web, Raj Singh, GeoPlace.Com, July 2006.
• What Is RDF, Joshua Tauberer, XML.com, July 26, 2006
• Minding The Planet — The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web, Nova Spivack, Nov. 2006.
• When did the Semantic Web enter our lexicon?, Tim Finin, ebiquity.umbc.edu, Dec. 2006

RSS Feeds

• Ask.com: “Geospatial Semantic Web” search query RSS (results from last day)
• Ask.com: “Semantic Web” search query RSS (results from last day)
• Ask.com: “GIS geospatial” search query RSS (results from last day)