Interoperability and Standards
Theme Overview:
CGS research aims to take place in the context of existing Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO standards wherever appropriate and to work towards the development of extended or new standards for interoperability where not. It has a particular focus on the European INSPIRE Directive with funding from several EU Programmes. In May 2007, the INSPIRE Directive established an infrastructure for the sharing of spatial information in Europe, in order to support European Community environmental policies. The Directive addresses 34 spatial data themes used by environmental applications. It requires that common Implementing Rules (IR) be adopted throughout the member states in order to ensure that the spatial data infrastructures of individual nations are compatible and usable in a Community and trans-boundary context. The application of interoperability to CGS research is particularly evident in the EU funded projects GIS4EU, EuroGEOSS, GIGAS and eSoTer, the joint AGILE/EuroSDR/OGC Persistent Test-Bed project and the Technology Strategy Board sensor-web funded SWIMA project.
CGS plays an active role in Committees and Boards associated with this theme with members being represented on:
CGS research projects involving Interoperability and Standards:
The following projects currently under development will involve Interoperability and Standards:
CGS members focusing on this theme:
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Mike Jackson
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Jeremy Morley
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Gobe Hobona
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Suchith Anand
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Didier Leibovici
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Kristin Stock
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Claudia Cialone
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Nan Lin
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Amir Pourabdollah
CGS publications relating to this theme:
2010
Hobona, G., Jackson, M., Anand, S., de Zorzi, S., and Leibovici, D. (2010 forthcoming). Web-based Harmonization of Intergovernmental Geospatial Data using Ontologies. IEEE Intelligent Systems.
Stock, K. (2010 forthcoming). Review of 'Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic Web'. van Oosterom, P. and Zlatanova, S. (editors). Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.
Stock, K., Atkinson, R., Higgins, C., Small, M., Woolf, A., Millard, K. and Arctur, D. (2010). A semantic registry using a Feature Type Catalogue instead of ontologies to support spatial data infrastructures. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 24(2): 231-252.
Stock, K., Reitsma, F., Ou, Y., Bishr, M., Ortmann, J., Stojanovic, T. and Robertson, A. (2010 forthcoming). To Ontologise or Not to Ontologise: Foundations for an Ontology-Registry for a Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure. Submitted to Computers and Geosciences.
Stock, K., Robertson, A., and Small, M. (2010 forthcoming). Representing OGC Geospatial Web Services in OWL-S Web Service Ontologies. Submitted to International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research.
Stock, K., Small, M., Robertson, A., Reitsma, F. and Ou, Y. (2010 forthcoming). The Machinery of Knowledge: An Ontology-Registry for a Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure. Submitted to Geoinformatica.
2009
Hobona, G., Carmelo, A., Laurini, R., Jackson, M., Pla, M., de Zorzi, S., Breu, A., Roussey, C., and Kmiecik, A. (2009). Considerations for Harmonising Cross-Border Geospatial Datasets. In: Proceedings of the “Challenges in Geospatial Data Harmonisation” Workshop at the 12th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), Hanover, Germany, 2nd-5th June 2009.
Hobona, G., Jackson, M., Anand, S., de Zorzi, S., Leibovici, D. (2009). Rule Specification for Semantically-oriented Harmonisation of European Datasets. In: Proceedings of the 2009 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union(EGU), Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 11, EGU2009-10589, Vienna, Austria, 19–24th April 2009.
Hobona, G., Jackson, M., Anand, S., de Zorzi, S., Leibovici, D. (2009). Modeling rules for integrating heterogeneous geographic datasets. In: Proceedings of the 17th GIS Research UK conference, Durham, United Kingdom.
Leibovici, D.G., Hobona, G., Stock, K., and Jackson, M. (2009). Qualifying geospatial workflow models for adaptive controlled validity and accuracy. In: IEEE, 17th International Conference on GeoInformatics, 2009, Fairfax USA, 12-14th August. Pp. 1-5.
Stock, K. (2009). OWL Application Profile for CSW 2.0. Open Geospatial Consortium Application Profile 09-010.
2007
Gould, M., Jackson, M. J., Klien, E. and Lemmens, R. (2007). Design and Implementation of a Persistent Testbed for GeoWeb Services. 13th EC-GI & GIS Workshop, Porto, Portugal, 4-6 July 2007. Available online 
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2006
You, J. and Jackson, M. (2006). The Development of a Persistent Test-Bed Facility for Geospatial Interoperability Research and Standards. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2006), Denver, Colorado, 1st August.