[seek-kr-sms] collaborate?

[Deana Pennington]

Last week I presented SEEK at a GIScience meeting, and was tackled by 
some people from the Europe who are working on similar kr/sms issues.  
They brought up the possibility of collaboration, or a joint workshop.  
 From what I can tell, it does appear that they are actually trying to 
build working systems, rather than just throwing the ontology word 
around.  And, their area of interest is complementary to ours, so it 
could be that we could combine our ontologies.  The players I met are:

Glen Hart, UK Ordnance Survey.  They are working on freshwater ecology 
and topographic ontologies.
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/partnerships/research/collaboration/semanticinter.html

Florian Probst, Institute for Geoinformatics, Muenster
ifgi.uni-muenster.de/~probsfl
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/index-javaScript.shtml (if you aren't 
Bertram, you will need to click the English version)

Please take a look at these links, and let me know if this is something 
the group would like to pursue.  Might be able to arrange some kind of 
combined meeting this summer.

Deana

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