SWTeleconNotes20121030

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 Action Items

• 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"

ESDSWG Quad Chart

• Should the Semantic Web working group move forward in ESDS?
• Intent is to evangelize "semantic mashups" using linked data (e.g., AGU, ToolMatch, ...)
• Demo of ECHO LOD
• How many killer apps/mashups are there of interest to the ESDSWG stakeholders
• Need to contact the people in ECHO who are doing architecture studies
• What about using granule-level RDF for DAAC servers?