1. Vocabularies and Semantics
Roberto Lucchi
RLucchi(at)esri.com
Masahiko Nagai
nagaim(at)iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Cristiano Fugazza
cristiano.fugazza(at)jrc.ec.europa.eu

2. Discussion Items
Extend Service Broker with existing vocabulary services
Collect and integrate more vocabularies/thesauri
General-purpose (e.g., GEMET Thesaurus, INSPIRE Registry): require harmonisation. Tool for relating vocabularies to each other.
Thematic-oriented: need user-friendly digitisation tools. Wiki-based contents management tool.
User-generated: lack retrieval and organisation criteria. Still a research topic.

3. Vocabulary collection and integration
Collect and Manage Ontology
Analyze・Modify・Add
Integrate・Provide・Associate
By hand
Dictionary
Digitize
Terminology
Technical Term
Handbook
Technical terms Wiki
External Registries
Data schema
XSD
XMI
Data model
Data model registry
Comprehensive interface Development
Thesaurus
Wiki-based develpment
Data Retrieval
Data Interoperability
OWL
RDF
Classification
Existing Ontology
Ontology
Metadata
Data Document
Data
Data documents Wiki
External Ontologies

4. Actions Extend Service Broker Functionality
Leverage the broker and the RDF repository
Collect existing Vocabularies;
Contribution from thematic communities,
e.g. water
Harmonize data formats
Integration;
Create relationships among them
Use them for practical purposes