This presentation explores role of geospatial in the emerging semantic web and implications for the geospatial community, drawing on experiences in the ANZLIC Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF) initiative to illustrate key issues.
Beyond the geospatial community, geospatial data is used to organise, integrate, and analyse vast amounts of data related to places. However, the way in which geospatial data is currently delivered hampers efforts to ‘geospatially enable’ these communities.
Linked Data uses hypertext linking to support navigation to datasets on the web. The Semantic Web adds a connected web of statements about people, dates, things and places, with formal structure and semantics. This holds great promise to enable users to locate and query linked geospatial and other data to generate insights and knowledge.
The Semantic Web requires well-structured, semantically explicit information. Standard information modelling techniques together with new geospatial vocabularies, such as GeoSPARQL and LOCN provide a means to encode and deliver geospatial data for the Semantic Web.
This presentation highlights innovative information modelling techniques used in the FSDF to develop geospatial products. It will also highlight key innovations in these products including, explicit encoding of topology to support spatial queries outside of standard GIS applications and feature identifiers that enables reliable linking of information across the web.
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Building the Foundations of the Geo-semantic Web. Locate 14.
1. www.csiro.au | www.nicta.com.au
Building the Foundations of the Geo-semantic Web:
FSDF spatial semantic products and a spatial linked data platform
Paul Box, Simon Cox, Bruce Simons, CSIRO
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DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY AND SERVICES FLAGSHIP
Canberra, 8-9 April 2014
2. Overview
• The future
• Where are we now and what are some of the issues?
• What are some of the steps we are taking in the geo-semantic
direction?
• FSDF – Admin Boundary Topology Product
• SIRF – Spatial Identifier Reference Framework
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3. • Australia’s geographic entities in the web of linked data
• Stable identifiers for spatial objects
• Authoritative data - else people will use non-authoritative sources –
Geonames, OpenStreetMap
• Direct access to individual features
• Not acquiring complete datasets
• Minimise cost/licensing barriers
The future
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4. The present - information silos
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5. The present – representing location
• Represent spatial objects using geographic data
• We use:
• Identity (name)
• Type
• Geometry
• Topology
• Human users integrate and use in GIS
• Enterprise silos
• Duplication
• Heterogeneity – structure, semantics
Concept
Relationship
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7. What’s in a name?
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Tell me about ‘Leichhardt’
Which Leichhardt?
• Geonames - Australia 22 - Germany 1
Leichhardt in Australia (NSW +QLD)
• 4 (52) Australian Gazetteer (GA) NSW, QLD
• 14 ASGS (ABS) NSW, VIC, QLD
Leichhardt in NSW
2 (9) in NSW Place Names search (GNB NSW)
Feature types
• National Gazetteer
• Suburb
• Parish
• Homestead
•ASGS
• SA2 (NSW, QLD)
• SA3 (NSW)
• CED (QLD)
•IARE (NSW)
• State Suburb (VIC, NSW &
QLD)
• Gazetted locality
Leichhardt (Sub) NSW
•GNB
• Suburb
• Parish
8. One spatial object - multiple identities and representations
Multiple - names, identifiers, geometries, versions
Geospatial information Statistical information
(geospatial dimension)
GNB NSW 32679
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
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Geonames 2160386
ABS ASGS SSC11351
GA Aus Gaz NSW3267
10. Separating geometry and topology
• Geometric representations – visualization and analysis
• Most use cases need topology not geometry -
• Traversing hierarchies - Which Jurisdictions contains Leichhardt LGA
• Find connected features - Which rivers are upstream of the Hawkesbury?
• Geometry is:
• unreliable for representing topology
• inefficient - each user needs to infer topology from geometry
• Tool affordance - dependent on GIS software
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11. Edge matching between Jurisdictions
LGA boundaries are disjoint
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12. Vertical alignment
State > LGA geometries do not align
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13. Complexity
1
2
Two separate polygons for City of Freemantle
(LGA) separated by Swan River
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14. Representation ≠ intention
State Upper House Electoral Boundary State Lower House Electoral Boundary
Upper house electorate polygons are contained within lower house electorate polygons
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15. What do we need? A web of spatial data
• Unambiguously identify spatial features - URIs
• Link spatial features to
• each other
• statistics information
• Within spatial information products
• encode topological relationships ‘adjacent’, ‘touches’, ‘contains’
• Link multiple representation to the same spatial object
• Across spatial information products
• Link different identities/geometries representing the same real world feature
– Gazetteer view authoriative State view , ABS statistical view
– Same as
• Encode topological relationships across datasets
• Reliably link geometric representation to stats/obs
• Enable spatial analysis outside GIS
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16. FSDF - Admin Boundary Topology
product
Core modelling team Admin Boundary Topology Product
development development support
Paul Box (CSIRO) Marcus Blake (ABS)
Rob Atkinson (CSIRO) Bruce Cotton (GA)
Bruce Simons (CSIRO)
Simon Cox (CSIRO)
Marcus Roy (NICTA)
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17. Presentation title | Presenter name17 |
ANZ Foundation Spatial Data Framework
Making Common Foundation Spatial Data Ubiquitous Across Australia and New Zealand
1. Geocoded Addressing
2. Administrative Boundaries
3. Positioning
4. Place Names
5. Land Parcel and Property
6. Imagery
7. Transport
8. Water
9. Elevation and Depth
10. Land Cover
18. Modelling process
Data Product
Specification
Supply (current state)
What data sets are available?
S/T Aggregated
Conceptual Model
- Concepts
- Relationships
INSPIRE
+
Use cases
+
Supply data
+
Future needs
Link
statistical
data
Demand
What products are required?
Boundary
cookie
cutter
Traverse spatial
hierarchy across
S/T boundary
Product
model
What can be done now?
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19. Admin Boundary Model – all about identity
Meta-DataVersioningGeometry
Topology
Identity
A Feature exists and
has identity
A feature is
topologically
related to other
features
A feature has
versions as it
changes over
time
A feature has
metadata
A version has
geometric
representation(s)
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20. Admin Boundary Product Model
Meta-DataVersioningGeometry
Topology
Identity
A Feature exists and
has identity
A feature is
topologically
related to other
features
A feature has
versions as it
changes over
time
A feature has
metadata
A version has
geometric
representation(s)
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21. • What
• Government governance admin units
• Identity and Topological relationships - contained/contains, adjacent) (geosparq spatial
relations)
• Position in hierarchy
• Representative location
• NSW
– Leichhardt (LGA)
– Albury (LGA)
– Version
• Geometry
• Relationships
• Spatial
• Adjacent to
• Contains
• Governance
Admin Boundaries Topology Product
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22. • Process
• Build topology from geometry
• ‘intention filter’ to clean up geometry
• Data source
• Developed using PSMA then switched to ABS data
• Delivered in standardised formats
• GML (WFS) - geometry
• RDF (SIRF API) –identity and relationship
Admin Boundaries Topology Product
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31. Geospatial information Statistical information
(Implicitly geospatial)
GNB NSW 32679
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
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Geonames 2160386
ABS ASGS SSC11351
GA Aus Gaz NSW3267
Geo-semantics used to bridge existing gaps
Spatial
Identifier
Reference
Framework
32. How SIRF works
SIRF
Spatial
Information
Statistical
Information User
Linked
Data
Web
National Spatial
Data
Infrastructure
Agency B
Treasury
API
Agency C
Welfare
API
Agency A
Statistics
API
http://id.data.gov.au/id/AusGaz2010/ NSW56500
Same as
http://linkedgeodata.org/triplify/node26469586
Contains
isWithin
NSW
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Build data network in SIRF
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34. Standardised based
ISO 19109 Application Schema for conceptual -
modelling UML
ISO 19112 – Spatial referencing
OGC WFS
ISO19150-2 - OWL for online resource format
Spatial - Model driven ETL
linked data delivery
34 | Spatial Information Modelling Workshop | Paul Box
36. SIRF Data Network
• metadata describing the relationships between Spatial Identifier
Sets and related data (RDF)
• VOID to describe:
• the available online resources for each dataset
• cross-references between
spatial sets
Presentation title | Presenter name36 |
37. LinksetSISet SISet
Described using:
• SIRF metamodel
Dublin Core
• Can be extended with
other description
vocabulary as required
Two flavors of links
• Identity
• links between different identities for the same spatial object
• OWL sameAS (could use other predicates)
• Spatial relations:
• relationships between different spatial objects
•Described using:
•“native” – i.e. lossless, “as declared” in information sources
•“geoSPARQL” spatial relations vocabulary (Simple Features
subset)
• Can be extended to include any relation language e.g. GeoNames
ontology
• ad-hoc, but a de facto standard may emerge
A registered Spatial
Identifier Set
Description of how two
spatial objects are related
Australian
National
Gazetteer
FSDF Admin
Boundary
‘Cross-walks’ between SISets
A registered Spatial
Identifier Set
38. Dataset
Online
resource
Described using:
•VoiD:TechnicalFeature
(linked to IEEE URI
templating)
• RDF-Data cube planned
An online resource using an
SISet to geo-reference
information
Described using:
• Dublin Core
• VoiD
• others as needed
Linking statistics to spatial
LinksetSISet SISetAustralian
National
Gazetteer
FSDF Admin
Boundary
ABS Stats
Census
Quickstats
A dataset using an SISet as
spatial reference
39. Summary
• Is it the end of the line for geometry?
• New way of thinking about how we create
• Identity – model important
• Suites of smarter products
• Implications
• SIRF - a key component of NSDI in Australia - used to register and
link graphs together and spatial to data
• Critical role of modelling - multiple KR UML OWL
• URI patterns – FSDF requirements to ALDWG
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40. More information
• FSDF Admin Boundaries prototype product description
– Geospatial services - WFS https://github.com/NICTA/fsdf-
hackfest/wiki/Data-Sets-and-Services
– SIRF API https://github.com/NICTA/fsdf-hackfest/wiki/FSDF-Admin-
Boundary-Linked-Data
• SIRF
• SIRF goals, research, projects, http://www.sirf.net/about-sirf
• APIs http://portal.sirf.net/discover-sirf-technologies/sirf-apis
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41. Paul Box
t: +61 2 93253122
e: paul.j.box@csiro.au
w: www.csiro.au
DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY AND SERVICES FLAGSHIP
Thank you
CSIRO Digital Productivity and Services Flagship
Notas del editor
Lead a research team in systems interoperability
Focus on systems of sysetms inteoperability
Everything happens somwehere
From traditional SDI to spatial linke ddata web bridge silos betweens spaital and broader world
smarter suites of info products
Infrastrcuture
Where do we want to be
Change - significant changes in geospatial community over the last decade.
Recognition of value of geospatial - Increasing demand for and recognition of value of geospatial amongst decision-makers
Everything happens somewhere
Smart phone huge volumes of information being generated - big data challenges
Staggering volumes information that are explicitly geospatial have coordinates or can be geo-located
Internet of things - sensor networks static and dynamic and tracking devices internet of things preparing information about what is happening in particular place
Web the key delivery platform and given vast volumes of data being generated we need to be able to link information reliably on the web to distil some meaning out of this information tsunami
Out role in this production of Australia geographic entities in the web of linked data
Foundation – spatial linked to statistical information
Authoritative – lesson learned from UK OS and OSM spawned by access issues for official government data
A key is to be able to reliably reference objects – enables linking
Stable and actionable
Direct access – individual features not only datasets - information more readily accessible in ways that make sense to users – beyond spatial
Spatial information delivery if not an end in and of itself .
SDI portals need to be more like iTunes - - Listen to individual tracks, try/buy, recommendations download , licencing
Geospatial portal should enable these kind of richer interactions not just view online
Large scale complex interwoven challenges
Multiple domains, organisations, scientific disciplines, perspectives
Multiple information sources - different scales, sources, formats, semantics, quality etc
Granularity
Rapid information integration from multiple sources
Need better integration of
spatial + statistical /observations
Integration is inefficient, time consuming & expensive
Everything somewhere how do we refer to places – spatial identifiers
‘everything happens somewhere’ – It is said that 80% of gov data has spatial dimension. Geography is a key mechanism for integrating, analysis and interpretation of information from different systems.
Highly spatially variable phenomena- need to tie information to places
Idea dimesnion for integration of infromaiotn
Heavy reliance on geometry – primary lens through which we view spatial information
Geometry plus attributes
Dumb identifiers used in system context – not
Multiple identities and a disconnect between spatial and statistics
From supply perspective difficult to relibaly encoding topology
Because diferent sources scales etc etc
In Victoria
FSDF common model
Thematic Cocneptual Model
Product models
App schemas
DPS – delivery content and structure of product
DQ, delivery formats, maintenance etc
Analysis of use cases indicated similar patterns find something, find how it relatees to something else, get data for it
Fast-tracked admin boundaries
Includes statistical geographies
Fast-tracked admin boundaries
Includes statistical geographies
Test the model
Demonstrate a new product from existing data
Goal – encode identity and topology
Address issues with geometry
Test the model
Demonstrate a new product from existing data
Goal – encode identity and topology
Address issues with geometry
Sjows two hierarchies – LGA and electoral
Multiple identities and a disconnect between spatial and statistics
The gazetteer framework provides the scalable geographic dimension to the Linked Data Web. It is DNS for ‘where’
Users access
- Register data source
- Harvest from WFS- Model transformation – Solid Ground
- Connect back to underklying data set to access geometry for underlying feature
Operational provenance – where it came from but link to underlying geometry
API
LID Basic profile of how a URI identifier behaves in a Linked Data environment. Standardises basic object descriptions and listing of available resources.
SIRF OpenSearchProfile of OpenSearch protocol supported by SIRF, describing supported content, query syntax and result formats.
SIRF CrossRef API Provides a list of alternative or related identifiers to support linking SIRF references.
DataNetwork APIAccess metadata about sets of spatial reference and discover related datasets (LinkedData API on VOID standard)SISSVocVocabulary service API (SIRF combines this with LID to create dereferencable terms)FeatureTypeCatalogLID based Linked Data approach to publishing data models for SIRF data content and metadata about the data SIRF indexes.
Open search – leightweigfth
Solution is underpinned
Ability to harvest and integrate information in different structure and to common model based on model mapping
Delviery of information content and models as metadata – FTC from models
Tools and doco also
SIRF will publish all information models (including for harvested source data) via a standardised approach based on:
ISO 19109 Application Schema for conceptual modelling UML
ISO19150-2 - OWL for a semantic-web ready online resource format
Linked Data API for RESTful convenience methods to generate simplified views for users
Linked IDentifier - LID for accessing alternative forms of model suitable for different users.