SWTeleconNotes20121030

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Attendees

  • Bob Groman
  • Dalia Varanca
  • Erin Robinson
  • Peter Fox
  • Tom Narock
  • Chris Lynnes
  • Eric Rozell
  • Alan Chappell
  • Brian Wilson
  • Marshall Ma
  • Beth Huffer
  • James Gallagher

Previous Action Items

  • Eric - Determine state of ToolMatch application framework
  • Line - Contact Stanford about BioPortal and keep Peter posted
  • Peter & Line - follow up on role of BioPortal in ESIP
  • Peter - contact a few people before next call to "convince" them to do more research on ontology governance
  • Peter - contact Info Quality cluster lead to participate in their telecoms
  • Chris, Eric, Peter - sync up on "rules" presentation for winter meeting

Action Items

  • Eric - document the ToolMatch software stack
  • Peter - contact a few people before next call to "convince" them to do more research on ontology governance
  • Eric - look into the rules that Chris Lynnes provided, to create mappings to DL or FOL
  • Chris, Eric, Peter - coordinate on Rules Overview session

Notes

  • Reviewing actions
    • Eric will document the code for ToolMatch infrastructure
    • Presentation for ESIP Ontology Portal at Winter Meeting
    • Line has put in a follow-up proposal for the Products and Services committee
    • None yet...
    • Did contact quality cluster
    • Chris sent out a rich set of "written English" rules for matching datasets to tools, ToolMatch
      • Proposal for winter meeting is to have a seminar on the use of rules

ToolMatch Overview

  • Covered in previous action items

Ontolog

  • Next themes: review of Earth Science ontologies, how to do reviews of ontologies
    • Line up of speakers for this topic
  • Lots of other themes

How is Governance Handled?

  • Simple structure:
    • Person reaches out to PoC and gets changes made ad hoc
  • Peter gives slides on different types of ontology governance
  • Discussion of simple vs. complex governance structure
  • General consensus that simple is going to be the best approach

EarthCube Meeting Overview

  • Lots of attention to Semantic Web by younger (early career) crowd at meeting
  • Wanted to know what vocabularies were available, how to use linked data right away
  • Low barrier to adoption within community
  • Report about meeting coming soon