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Do we all speak the same language (or something similar)?
THE LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS
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THE LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS• Who are we communicating with? • Do we understand their needs?• What are we both trying to achieve? • Is there consensus and agreed scope?
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• Is it important that we all use the same language?
• You say potato, I say potahto• Spatial, geospatial, digital
geographic information, geoinformation, location based services, volunteered geographic information
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TLAs to SLAs• SIG – French for GIS or a
Special Interest Group?• VGI• BSI, CEN, OGC, ISO• WFS, WMS, WPS• SDI, NSDI, GSDI• UML, XML, GML, KML
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• Search results for SDI = 8,960,000 in Google
• Ranging from the Steel Deck Institute to Scottish Development International to Silt Density Index and Spatial Data Infrastructures
• Requires context
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• What is context?• It requires shared vocabulary
of the same concept/domain• Through ontologies?
– Formal concept to model a domain/classify data
– Type of objects that exist together with relationships and properties
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• Highway, motorway, autobahn, autoroute
• Engineering context?– Concrete, tarmac,
foundations• Transport context?
– Number of lanes, direction of flow
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• Within context what is meaning?• Highway, motorway, autobahn,
autoroute, autostrada • Are these the same things?• What defines a motorway?
– Connected chunks of roads, same direction flow, same name or number, M25, M4
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• Need to use motorway in a consistent manner
• This requires semantics – understanding data meaning
• Rules-based languages help• Modelling - OCL, UML, SWRL• SQUIRL- Spatial Quality and
Integration Rules Language
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• Rules help with consistency• Provide common
understanding• There are data consistency
implications for the UK Location Programme
• INSPIRE classifications provide some examples
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• A hydrographical node transforms from code “1” (‘source’ in EA data) to value “spring” in INSPIRE
• Code “3” (‘junction’ in EA data) to the value “bifurcation” or “confluence” in INSPIRE (depends on how many rivers connected to it, how many flowing in and out.)
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• Based on work across several INSPIRE themes these mappings are important
• Ensures the local schema can be mapped ‘as is’ against the INSPIRE data specifications
• Necessary during schema transformation and quality validation operations
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• As the volume of data increases exponentially it is becoming more and more important that we all speak the same language• This has a major effect on the ability to integrate and transform data from a quality perspective• It will also save time, money and reduce conflict or frustration
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