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# Terra Cognita 2009

### Proceedings of the Terra Cognita Workshop, collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2009), Washington DC, USA, October 26, 2009.

Edited by

### Dave Kolas *
Nancy Wiegand **
Gary Berg-Cross ***

* BBN Technologies, Arlington, Virginia, USA
** University of Wisconsin - Madison, Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
*** Knowledge Strategies, Potomac, Maryland, USA

## Table of Contents

1. Spatial Planning on the Semantic Web
   Radboud Winkels, Rinke Hoekstra and Erik Hupkes.
2. A Qualitative Approach to Vague Spatio-Thematic Query Processing
   Rolf Grütter and Thomas Scharrenbach.
3. Semantic Method of Conflation
   James Ressler, Eric Freese and Veleria Boaten.
4. The Experience of Realizing a Semantic Web Urban Computing Application
   Emanuele Della Valle, Irene Celino and Daniele Dell'Aglio.
5. The Space package: Tight Integration Between Space and Semantics
   Willem Robert van Hage, Jan Wielemaker and Guus Schreiber.
6. A Transparent Semantic Enablement Layer for the Geospatial Web
   Krzysztof Janowicz, Sven Schade, Arne Broering, Carsten Kessler and Christoph Stasch.
7. Towards Modelling the Intended Purpose of Ontologies: A Case Study in Geography
   Ronald Denaux, Anthony Cohn, Vania Dimitrova and Glen Hart.
8. Efficient 3D and 4D Geospatial Indexing in RDF Stores with a Focus on Moving Objects
   Jans Aasman, Steve Haflich and Craig Norvell.

14-Oct-2009: submitted by Dave Kolas and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
20-Oct-2009: published on CEUR-WS.org