ENVISION - ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with ONtologies

New ENVISION demonstrators

titi_roman — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:22:50 +0000

A set of new videos demonstrating the new features of the ENVISION platform has been posted online here.

First ENVISION end-user workshop, Bucharest, Romania, March 13-14, 2012

titi_roman — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:10:11 +0000

During the last year of the project, ENVISION is organizing three end-user workshops (March, June, and October 2012), with the following goals: receive feedback on the ENVISION technologies from the end-user community; validate ENVISION technologies in concrete pilot cases; Follow-up activities with potential end-users.

The first workshop in the series of workshops was held in Bucharest, Romania during March 13-14, 2012, and focused on the “Real-time monitoring of Floods in a Trans-boundary Context.“ A total of 50 participants attended the workshop. The presentations held during the workshop and additional information about the workshop are now available on the workshops webpage.

ENVISION@SafeLand

titi_roman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:52:32 +0000

On February 2nd 2012, ENVISION was presented at the SafeLand project consortium.

New Mendeley Group to manage the ENVISION Publication

patrick_maue — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:26:52 +0000

We’ve created a new group on Mendeley to manage all publications created within the ENVISION project, check it out here. All deliverables are included (as well as a few SWING deliverables).

ENVISION Website updates

ioan_toma — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:54:34 +0000

The project site has been updated. There is now a new item “Scenarios” in the top menu that links directly to scenarios web site.

Survey about the ENVISION platform

patrick_maue — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:02:23 +0000

We have created two surve with which we try to understand the requirements of the environmental modelling community in respect to the migration of environmental models to the Web. A second survey asks for feedback on the current release version of the ENVISION portal. Both surveys take around 10 minutes to answer, check this page with an introduction and the links: http://www.envision-project.eu/survey/

New publications added:

patrick_maue — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:03:40 +0000

A couple of publications have been added to the Website:

Janowicz, K., A. Bröring, C. Stasch, S. Schade, T. Everding, and A. Llaves. (2011, accepted): A RESTful Proxy and Data Model for Linked Sensor Data. International Journal of Digital Earth. Taylor & Francis.
Llaves, A. and T. Everding, (2011, accepted) Discovering Geosensor Data by means of an Event Abstraction Layer. Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications. IGI Global.
Roman D. , S. Schade, A. J. Berre (2011). Open Environmental Platforms: Top-Level Components and Relevant Standards, Proceedings of International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS), June 27-29 2011, Brno, Czech Republic.
Llaves, A. (2011): Integration of Geosensor Data by means of an Event Abstraction Layer. In Doctoral Colloquium at Conference on Spatial Information Theory: COSIT’11. Belfast, Maine, USA.
Roman D., X. Gao, and A.-J. Berre. (2011) Demonstration: Sensapp ⎯ An Application Development Platform for OGC-based Sensor Services. To appear in the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2011 (SSN11), collocated with ISWC 2011, October 23-27, Bonn, Germany.
Stuhr M., D. Roman, D. Norheim (2011). LODWheel – JavaScript-based Visualization of RDF Data. To appear in the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2011), collocated with ISWC 2011, October 23, Bonn, Germany.
Stasch, C., Schade, S., Llaves, A., Janowicz, K., and Bröring, A. (2011): Aggregating Linked Sensor Data. In Kerry Taylor, Arun Ayyagari, David De Roure (Eds.): The 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2011 (SSN11) in conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany
Bröring, A., Janowicz, K., Stasch, C., Schade, S., Everding, T., and Llaves, A. (2011): A RESTful SOS Proxy for Linked Data – Demonstration Paper. In Kerry Taylor, Arun Ayyagari, David De Roure (Eds.): The 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2011 (SSN11) in conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany
Roman D., P. Maué, M. Grcar, I. Larizgoitia, I. Toma, F. Tertre (2011) ENVISION Platform – Demo of the Plarform’s Capabilities and Components. Demo paper at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 2011 (ICSC2011), September 18 – 21, 2011, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

In addition two theses have been successfully finished at the University of Münster, both by students who wrote about the work in ENVISION

Henry Michels: “Semantics for notifying events in the affecting environment” (June 2011)
Marcell Roth: “Geographic Feature Pipes” (July 2011)

Slides of the IES (JRC) Presentation

patrick_maue — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:47:02 +0000

The attached slides have been presented on Friday 9th Sept 2011 at the Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy. The focus is on the ENVISION scenarios and the demonstrator videos, with the goal to gain feedback from environmental modellers about the usefulness of the ENVISION platform.

Slides of the ENVISION Presentation at JRC, Sept 09, 2011

D7.5 – Open Source Strategy

patrick_maue — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:50:56 +0000

A new deliverable has been published on the ENVISION website.

Link to the PDF file:

Deliverable 7.5- ENVISION Open Source Strategy

Executive Summary:

ENVISION targets the implementation of Web-enabled pluggable user interface components for the creation of domain-specific Web sites for the environmental modelling community. This includes tools for the discovery, semantic annotation, and adaptive composition of workflows representing the environmental process models. Several reasons justified the decision to publish all the developed components under a permitting open source license. This deliverable will discuss these reasons, and explain the strategy which we have successfully applied in the project.

52°North Student Innovation Price

patrick_maue — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:21:04 +0000

Marcell Roth (from IFGI, University of Münster) has won the second place at this year’s 52°North Student Innovation Price with his work about Geographic Feature Pipes. His implementation includes the Service Model Translator (SMT), which also forms an integral part of the ENVISION platform. Marcell received the price from Mrs. Svenja Schulze, North-Rhine Westphalia’s Minister of Innovation, Science und Research. He also presented his work (and some words about ENVISION) on the Geoinformatics 2011.

The awardees, Marcell from IFGI is second from left.

The following summary of Marcell’s work (as well as the attached picture) is taken from the announcement published on the 52°North website.

Second prize winner Marcell Roth proposes Linked Data as a trendsetting way to solve the problem of linking and aggregating data coming from different web services. OGC standards are combined with subject-specific ontologies to analyze complex spatial or spatio-temporal questions. The Geographic Feature Pipes portray a process for translating data from OGC Web Services in to the Linked Data Model. This process can also be used to continually update spatially dynamic Linked Data data sets. Thus, Geographic Feature Pipes help to build up the Geospatial Semantic Web. 52°North considers this technologically oriented proposal important for future development of spatial data infrastructures.