INSPIRE conference, Krakow
I didn’t really had much high expectations for the INSPIRE conferenc. I was proved wrong. Sure, the talks were mostly about standards and regulations (and in this sense rather hard to digest). But they were some sort of reality check as well, grounding our work at OGC and in the research projects and showing us what our work in academia can eventually result in. GMES and GEOSS are hot topics, which were pushed quite a bit by the talks in the EuroGEOSS track. Semantics was (as usual) covered in a substantial part in the track about new and evolving tools, and many presentations circled around the use of ontologies for supporting better schema matching and validation of existing geodata. We had a presentation about our approach for environmental models on the Web (here are the slides), which is a result from our research in the projects ENVISION and UncertWeb.
