WORKSHOP ON URBAN ONTOLOGIES

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TOWNTOLOGY Genesis of a Project Robert
LauriniINSA Lyon
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Genesis

• Euro Conf. on the Ontology and Epistemology for
  Spatial Data Standards, September 2000, near
  Toulon
• Initial Project "Towntology"
• 1000 concepts
• INSA funds (2002-04) Two labs
• LIRIS (Computing)
• EDU (Urban Planning)
• COST C21 (January 2005)

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Objective and means

• Designing and engineering of an ontology for
  urban planning and city management
• Covering the "whole urban field"
• Splitting the urban fields into sub-fields
• from sub-ontologies to one ontology

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Towntology principles

• Pre-consensus sub-ontology
• Multiple definitions
• Visual presentation
• Semantic network
• Hypertext structure
• Photos and drawings
• Origin and traceability of definitions
• Possibility of updating

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Excerpt of the ontology
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Biking track
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Portal
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Project management

1. Aware of each other's expertise
2. Knowing what each partner wants to do
3. Assembling
4. Detecting missing pieces
5. Splitting the cake
6. Agenda

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UMR 5205
Laboratoire dInfoRmatique des Images et des
Systèmes dInformation Directeur Bernard
Péroche Directeur-adjoint Robert Laurini
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Principles of pervasive information systems
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LIRIS
Axis 1
Axis 4
Axis 2
Axis 3
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GIS databases (past)

• Indexing data by Peano keys
• Conceptual modelling
• Spatio-temporal integrity constraints
• Hypermaps
• Visual queries
• Field-oriented databases
• GIS federation and interoperability
• Telegeomonitoring

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GIS databases (present)

• Geographic and urban data quality
• Spatio-temporal datawarehouses
• Spatio-temporal data mining
• Real time GIS databases
• Physical hypermedia
• Groupware for urban planning
• Ontologies for urban planning

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Happy Birthday, Monique!