Ontologies for Sustainable Development

CYTED (Ibero-american) IDEDES Project 606AC0294

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Dra. Tatiana Delgado Fernndez IDEDES Project Coordinator

Summary
1. Motivation 2. IDEDES Project (Participants and Objectives) 3. IDEDES Results on 2006 4. IDEDES Context Perspective 5. IDEDES Ontology Perspective 6. Expectations from COST

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Motivation
CYTED Project Evaluation and strengthening of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) for sustainable development in Latin-America and the Caribbean Countries (IDEDES) (2006-2009): - To bridge the gap between sustainable development needs and SDIs by means of domains ontology creation and the corresponding semantics services - To strengthen the NSDIs in the region
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From GIS to SDI

SDI is all about facilitation and coordination of the exchange and sharing of spatial data Aceptation Society GIS Enterprise GIS Department GIS Project GIS Time (Adapted from ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute)
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Evolution of Spatial Data Infrastructures

1st Generation
Developed Countries Emerging Economies Developing Countries

2nd Generation
Developed, Emerging and Developing Countries

Towards the Next Generation

Delivery of a Virtual Environment in support of spatial enablement of society as part of an e-government strategy

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Future

Product-Based SDI development model

Process Based SDI development model

Push by the technology Data-centric

Pull by the demand User-driven

SDI to support spatially enabled society

(Adapted from Abbas Rajabifard, 2007)

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Participants
AR1 AR2 CO1 CU1 CU2 CU3 CU4 CL1 ES1 ES2 MX1 MX2 UR1 UR2 BR1 CU5 CU6 UNPSJB-IGEOPAT UNPA IGAC-CIAF IDERC-ONI CETDIR IGT GEOCUBA IC & UAH IGM-GITB UPM IGN CIC-IPN Tecnolgico Monterrey DNT-MTOP TDM IBGE SIGForestal MatAplicada-CUJAE SDI Sustainable Development (Planning) SDI SDI + Ontology Modeling Sustainable Development Sustainable Development + Ontology SDI SDI SDI Ontology (Spatial) Ontology SDI SDI Sustainable Development Sustainable Development Modeling + Statistics
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Liaisons
RGI 005 Project into the framework of Space for Information Program in The Netherlands

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General Objective
To evaluate and strengthen the Spatial Data Infrastructures for sustainable development, including scenarios that embed new semantic-based spatial services in order to contribute to decision making process in Latin-American and the Caribbean countries.
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Specific Objectives
1. Defining the thematic research limits into the context of sustainable development 2. Assessing the development of the SDIs in countries of Ibero-America and selecting several scenarios in order to apply research experiments 3. Creating domain ontologies focusing on sustainable development 4. Harmonizing ontology models with standards provided by W3C, ISO TC 211 and OGC in order to use them in a heterogeneous and interoperable context. 5. Designing conceptual and logical models of ontology-based applications (Web Services) that might support SDIs for sustainable development at national and regional levels. 6. Determining and applying SDI impact indicators for sustainable development 7. Supporting the Permanent Committee of Spatial Data Infrastructure for America (PC IDEA) in a way that contributes to the development of national as well as regional initiatives relating to sustainable development. 8. Making use of existing PhD e-learning Programs and other similar education initiatives to prepare the researchers involved. 9. Creating a methodology for implementing sustainable development oriented SDIs and suggesting an implementation plan with focus on Latin-American and Caribbean countries.
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CYTED IDEDES - 2006

Related to Objective 1: Several themes (from UN sustainable development indicators) were selected to be object of the domain ontology creation: Environment dimension Forestry Agriculture Hydrography Institutional dimension Science & Technology Disasters Risks Social dimension Urban/rural territory Related to Objective 2: Assessing of SDI - SDI readiness index in 15 countries of the region - SDI State of Play in 11 countries
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IDE - Organizacin

IDE - Informacin

IDE - Recursos Humanos

IDE - Tecnologa

IDE - Recursos Financieros

2006 - SDI Readiness index

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2007 SDI State of Play

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IDEDES Context perspective

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IDEDES Ontology Perspective

Domain Ontology Domain Ontology Methodologies Sustainable development Domain n Ontology Domain 3 Creation Ontology Domain 2 Creation Ontology Domain 1 Creation Ontology Creation KD & Support Tools
Data Mining Fuzzy Logic Grid, etc

Application Ontology

Semantic Services Development KD Services Development

Spatial Data Infrast. Domain n Ontology Domain 3 Creation Ontology Domain 2 Creation Ontology Domain 1 Creation SDI building

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Conclusions or Expectations?
How we could maximize the sinergy between COST and IDEDES?
-Collaboration in Domain Ontology Methodologies? -Collaboration in the Urban Domain Ontology creation? -Collaboration in the generation of use cases (Urban SDI)? -Collaboration in the integration of services to satisfy use cases in Urban Contex? -Collaboration in disemination and education?
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Thank you
Tatiana Degado Fernndez tatiana@geocuba.co.cu

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