Alternative Geoinformatics in Geospace

Universal Ontology of Geographic Space: Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data

(Towards a Universal Ontology of Geographic Space)

A book edited by Tomaž Podobnikar and Marjan Čeh

Motivation

The universal ontology of geographic space as a semantic reference system is a severe scientific challenge that opens several questions. This book is intended to answer some these, like "is it reasonable to design universal ontology of geographic space and expect to be applied?" Or "how to implement such ontology to professional and general society through distributed information systems?" However, we assume that any spatial data that are semantically weak could be enriched to gain more efficient interoperability. The universal ontology of geographic space as enrichment engine of spatial data semantics is conceived as basically interdisciplinary. There exist various topics in the literature on the semantics of spatial symbologysm and different problems on developing spatial ontologies of geographic space, but correlation in databases between realities of space, concepts in human mind, and meaning of symbols/words is virtually hidden. For example, data management and analyses are often limited to the concepts of hardware, software and standards. The book is going to integrate a complexity of spatial dimension in geographic space with the philosophical interest to ontology, and furthermore the universal ontology of geographic space.

Important Dates

• July 15, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline
• September 7, 2010: Notification of Acceptance
• October 31, 2010: Full Chapter Submission
• April 15, 2011: Review Results Returned
• May 25, 2011: Final Chapter Submission
• June 15, 2011: Final Deadline
• March, 2012: The Book has been Published