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Coastal Web Atlases workshop report & workshops

Potentials and Limitations of Coastal Web Atlases - Final Report of Workshop 1, Cork, Ireland

Download from:

http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/cmrc/Cork06_CoastalWebAtlas_FinalReport_web.pdf

Hard copies will be available to attendees of the follow-up workshop in Corvallis, Oregon, July 17-19, 2007 (Workshop 2 - USA).

The suggested citation for the report is: O’Dea, L., Cummins, V., Wright, D., Dwyer, N. and Ameztoy, I. (2007). Report on Coastal Mapping and Informatics Trans-Atlantic Workshop 1: Potentials and Limitations of Coastal Web Atlases. University College Cork, Ireland, Coastal & Marine Resources Centre.

Forthcoming workshop - no. 2 in the series:

July 16-20, 2007: Coastal Atlas Interoperability (main program, July 17-19)

In this follow-up workshop to the Cork gathering in 2006, expert delegates will examine their variety of experiences in coastal mapping to build a common approach to managing and disseminating coastal data, maps and information, including an agreement on initial common ontologies and thesauri to facilitate database searches in Europe and North America. Final recommendations will be made available online to the research community. Presenters will include Luis Bermudez and Stephanie Watson of the Marine Metadata Interoperability project.

Major goals of this workshop include:

- 1 Gain an understanding of controlled vocabularies (CVs)
- 1.1 Introduction to CVs and ontologies
- 1.2 Hands on experience with common tools constructing and mapping
vocabularies

- 2 Start developing our own CVs
- 2.1 Ireland
- 2.1.1 Present an Irish coastal CV in an ontology.
- 2.2 Oregon
- 2.2.1 Present an Oregon coastal CV in an ontology.

- 3 Make Oregon and Irish vocabularies interoperable
- 3.1 Approach - mapping themes together
- 3.2 Approach mapping them to a central ontology (less intrusive)

- 4 Linking with broader networks (e.g., international coastal atlas network)
- 4.1 Start developing an international coastal atlas ontology. Super encompassing ontology or Irish and Oregon
- 4.2 Align Irish coastal atlas with the international coastal atlas ontology
- 4.3 Align Oregon coastal atlas with the international coastal atlas ontology

- 5 Enough to write proposal to go further
- 5.1 Guarantee that participants understand:
- 5.1.1 What controlled vocabularies are
- 5.1.2 What ontologies are
- 5.1.3 How they solve semantic interoperability issues
- 5.1.4 Tools that exist
- 5.1.5 How to use the created mappings

Host: Oregon State University, USA

Location: LaSells-Stewart Center, Oregon State University campus, Corvallis, Oregon, USA


For more information visit:

http://workshop1.science.oregonstate.edu…


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