Last week i attended the online Smart City Ontology webinar which was arranged over the 22nd and 23rd of September 2022. Here is a link to the Agenda and hopefully, at some point, the recordings or the presented papers will be available. Presentations were provided by several of the Standards working groups and detailed specific project updates, key challenges, development methods and ontology models. These ontology models covered Upper Layer ontologies, vertical and horizontal domain-specific ontologies and general ones. I had hoped to see some demonstrations of ontology applications with various technologies and platforms but that did not happen. To me the most useful presentation was a project-specific one on the Pallas Organisation and the development of a nuclear power plant in the Netherlands. This gave an interesting insight into how ontologies had been used to support design functions.
Whilst there was no indication of who was in attendance it was mentioned that over 400 people had registered for the event. This implies a keen interest in the topic and development of Smart City Ontologies.