[Spatialml-discussion] Generalized Upper Model ontology and SpatialML

[Mani, I. <im...@mi...>]

Dear All,

 

John Bateman at the University of Bremen has represented some key
examples in the SpatialML guidelines in terms of the Generalized Upper
Model (GUM) ontology, specifically the GUM 3.0 spatial module. A
concise document containing the representations along with the
corresponding SpatialML is available at:

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/spatialml/GUM-Ontology-SpatialML-19-Nov
-2008.pdf

 

As the examples indicate, a mapping between GUM and SpatialML is
potentially feasible, although there may of course be disambiguation
required when going from the coarser SpatialML to GUM, e.g., IN to
containment versus generalized possession, etc.  

 

More details on GUM can be found at:

 

http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/owlDoc/index.html

 

Comments are most welcome, as are suggestions for mappings to other
spatial ontologies.

 

Sincerely,

Inderjeet.