Geographic Information Science and Technology BoK2: Foundational Research (NSF ID 0964563)
Development of a CyberGIS Ontology using the
newly re-engineered GIS&T Body of Knowledge
Cyber Infrastructure
Cyber GIS 2013
September 15, 2013
Sean C. Ahearn,
Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI)
Hunter College – CUNY
“Geographic Information Science & Technology
Body of Knowledge 2 – Foundational Research”
• NSF funded 2010-2013
– NSF GSS Award 0964563
• Goal:
– Envision, implement,
demonstrate foundations
for BoK2
• Team:
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CUNY - Hunter College
Brigham Young Univ
San Diego State Univ
New Mexico State Univ
• http://gistbok.org/
• Key questions:
• What is the BoK?
• How to operationalize it?
• What can it be used for?
• How can it evolve?
Conceptual Model of the Knowledge Ecosystem
External Applications
Rest Services
Visual Wiki
BoKOnto
VPE
• Taxonomy
• Instances
• Inferences
• Mappings
BoKVis
BoKScorecard
BOKONTO
Manag
mentneContent
SERVER Management
LAYER
WEB SERVCIES
SPARQL
endpoint
Text Mining Interface
Course
Page
Job
Posting
GIS & T BoK2: Ahearn, Skupin, Plewe, DeMer
Article
Graph Network Visual Wiki
http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/
Text-Visual Hybrid
http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/bokwiki.html
Triple Store Versioning with RDF tag*
V1.0
V1.2
Concept 1
Concept 2
V1.5
V1.5b
Concept 3
Concept 4
V1.4
Each concept will be tagged with a version
number*. The current version will be designated
with a “b” tag (i.e. V1.5b). This tag will be given to
all concepts that are yet to be approved.
Applications can access any version through the
use of the versioning tag field.
Concept 5
*Bedi, P. and M. Sudeep, 2007,
Versioning OWL Ontologies using
Temporal Tags. World Academy of
GIS & T BoK2: Ahearn, Skupin, Plewe, Science, Engineering and Technology
DeMer
Review Process
Visual Wiki
Data mining
New Concept
V1.5b
Approval Process
New Concept
V1.6
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Authoritative Product
• A "top down" approach in which experts in those disciplines review
additions/changes to the GIS&T BokOnto to determine what concepts are
accepted in the next version (traditional editor).
• Scores for confidence in a new concept and its connections could be
generated from the bottom up in a collaborative fashion through assertion
and debate by the community (Ahearn et al., 2013) .
• Scores for new concepts could be inferred through data mining of the
contributors publications to generate a weight for each concept they wish
to add/modify. The concepts parent would be used for the scoring metric.
• Scores could for new concepts could be determined through the
nature (confirmation of existing content, correction, or revision) of a
contribution (Keßler and de Groot, 2013).
Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of
Knowledge – Foundational Research
Ahearn, S.C., Icke, I., Datta, R., DeMers, M.N., Plewe, B., and Skupin, A. (in press) ReEngineering the GIS&T Body of Knowledge. International Journal of Geographical
Information Science.
DeMers, M., Klimaszewski-Patterson, A., Richman, R., Ahearn, S., Plewe, B., Skupin, A.
(in press) Toward an Immersive 3D Virtual BoK Exploratorium: A Proof of Concept.
Transactions in GIS.
• Links
– NSF Project:
• http://gistbok.org/
– BoK Web Services examples:
• http://www.gistbok.org/gistbok/services/gistbok1hierarchy
• http://www.gistbok.org/gistbok/services/conceptmap?concept=Data+mining
– BoKVis:
• https://trac.devzing.com/space/BoKVis/wiki
– BoKWiki:
• http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/bokwiki.html