VoCamp is a series of informal events where people can spend some dedicated time creating lightweight vocabularies/ontologies for the Semantic Web/Web of Data. The emphasis of the events is not on creating the perfect ontology in a particular domain, but on creating vocabs that are good enough for people to start using for publishing data on the Web. The intention is to follow a "paper first, laptops second" format, where the modelling is done initially on paper and only later committed to code.
VoCamp 2015 workshop will take place at the USGS National facility starting at noon on Monday, November 30 and conclude mid-afternoon Thursday December 3 in Reston VA. One topic concerns the effort by a group of people devoted to modeling ontology design patterns for key notions related to physical samples. This group will be working on the International Geo Sample Number (IGSN). The IGSN is 9-digit alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies samples from our natural environment and related sampling features.
For more details, see: http://vocamp.org/wiki/GeoVoCampDC2015. There is no registration fee associated with the workshop.
Ontology workshop @ USGS HQ, Nov 30 - Dec 3, 2015
