SWTeleconNotes20121030
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
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
- Erin, Peter - contact EarthCube (Yolanda Gil) on potential joint workshop with ESIP on Semantic Web
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
- "Bootcamps" preferred to "Summer School"