Navigation Ontology
Project Description
This project is creating a computational ontology for
geospatial navigation, that is, a collection of terms, formal
definitions, and constraints that increase the scope of what can be
done by computational methods in navigation.
Our current efforts are concentrated on water-borne navigation.
Schematics providing a graphical
overview of the project are available.
Publications
- Model and Schema Registry.
Baddam, Anvith; Nivargi, Prajakta; Gardner, Monte; Malyankar, R. M.
(Poster at DG.O 2004).
Full size poster in PDF
and its accompanying summary,
PDF
- Prajakta Nivargi. A Generic Privacy Policy Model For Data Access
Using Semantic Web Technologies.
M.S. thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Arizona State University, 2004.
PDF
- Anvith Baddam. Knowledge Extraction from Heterogeneous Information Models.
M.S. thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Arizona State University, 2004.
PDF
- R. M. Malyankar, K. M. Shea, J. W. Spalding, M. J. Lewandowski,
A. R. Baddam. Managing Heterogeneous Models and Schemas in the Waterway
Information Network.
Conference on Digital Government research, Boston, 2003, 179-182.
PDF
- R. M. Malyankar. Vocabulary Development for Markup Languages - A Case
Study with Maritime Information.
Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, 2002.
Online version
- Viet Hung Nguyen. On the use of computational ontology in Extensible
Markup Language (XML) merging.
M.S. thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Arizona State University, 2002.
PDF
- Rashmi Keshava Iyengar and R. M. Malyankar: A Method for Automating
Text Markup. Conference on Digital Government (dg.o2002), Los Angeles,
California, May 2002.
PDF.
- Joshua Ryan and Andrew Smith: General Question Categorization for Question
and Answer Systems. (Unpublished report.)
.DOC file
- R. M. Malyankar: Elements of Semantic Web Infrastructure for Maritime
Navigation. Presented at the 2002 National Technical Meeting of the
Institute of Navigation.
San Diego, California, 2002. (PDF.
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Acquisition of Ontological Knowledge from Canonical Documents, IJCAI 2001 Workshop on Ontology Learning, Seattle, 2001.
PDF
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Creating a Navigation Ontology. AAAI-99 Workshop on Ontology
Management, Orlando, FL, pp. 48-53, Tech. Rep. WS-99-13, AAAI Press,
Menlo Park, CA, 1999.
PDF
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An Intelligent Information System for Maritime NavigationAAAI Fall
Symposium Series on Question-Answering Systems, Falmouth, MA, 1999.
PDF
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Maritime Information Markup and Use in Passage PlanningProceedings
of the National Conference on Digital GovernmentLos Angeles, 2001.
PDF.
Other products
All products on this site are made available without any warranties and
subject to these
conditions
(click the link for the conditions).
- MMS registry distributions are available via this page
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A draft version of a schema for AIS messages
is available
here.
Contact us (Dr. Malyankar, or e-mail to gcss @ www.fulton.asu.edu) for further
information. (Certain other schemas may also be available - e-mail with
any questions.)
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Protege plugin for text markup is available here.
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A draft version of an XML schema based on the IHO S57 Object catalog
is also available. Contact us (Dr. Malyankar, or e-mail to gcss @ www.fulton.asu.edu) for further
information.
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Maritime information retrieval prototype demonstration
( here).
This demonstration is not a permanent page. It is usually running
during business hours in the continental United States. In case of
connection failures,
contact Raphael for more information.
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Draft chart ontology of nautical chart symbols,
Version 0.1
(currently unavailable, being moved to another server).
(Created from NOAA Chart No. 1 with the help of
Protégé-2000
from the Stanford Medical Informatics Group.)
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Preliminary DTDs in MIML for
a sample chapter
of the Coast Pilot and a sample
Local Notice to Mariners. For comments only. Not intended for use as is!
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Other schemas (still under development):
symbology ontology,
geography,
port information,
layering over S57 schema,
services,
VTS,
weather,
communications,
maritime documents in general, and
regulations
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SANS concept schemas (obsolete as of November 2002, but retained as concept
illustrations):
Type definitions for selected entities and concepts,
Type definitions for other entities and concepts,
Type definitions for attributes,
Element definitions for the NoA
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.pins file,
.pont file,
.pprj file from which
the above were derived.
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Latest Protégé ontologies for the Coast Pilot,
.pins file,
.pont file,
.pprj file
(under development pending reconciliation with other ontolgies).
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Snapshots of schemas under development (all automatically generated from
Protégé-2000 models):
Supported by the National Science Foundation, USCG, and Sun Microsystems
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