SWTeleconNotes20110524
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
May 24, 2011 Telecon Notes
Agenda
- ESIP summer SW technical sessions on ontology development (quality, data and service, provenance/ stewardship)
- use cases needed for each of these by June telecon
- who will lead each of these
- SW tutorial
- confirm format
- presenters
- scheduling
- NASA TIWG SW plans (ESIP meeting and general interactions with SW cluster)
- Testbed status update - if needed
Notes
Attendance: Peter Fox, Erin Robinson, Judy Hertz, Tom Narcock, Yuqi Bai, Chris Lynnes, Rob Raskin, Rezqui, Hook Hua, Kai Lu, Alex Sorokine, Bob Downs, James Galligher, Deborah McGuiness
- telecons are now using Webex which will provide collaborative tools
- 3 major ontology development efforts (quality, data and service, provenance/ stewardship)
- use cases are needed for each category - ideally these would be available by June to help decide what happens during summer meeting sessions. This may be possible, but the use cases may be high level/theoretical
- preservation/stewardship - Hook mentioned that that preservation/stewardship group is looking to provide an end-to-end provenance example use case for the summer meeting. The summer meeting will have a preservation use case session that will lead into the preservation ontology break out session the next day.
- quality - use cases are expected to be discussed at the next quality telecon
- There was a discussion of rearranging the semantic web sessions at the summer meeting to better facilitate collaborations with other groups. Wednesday semantic web session was moved to Friday morning
- Priority for the summer meeting - may not have time for a full semantic tutorial as was done at ESIP winter meeting
- consensus was that current collaboration work with other clusters is higher priority
- semantic web tutorial from winter meeting will not be held at the summer meeting
- Hook suggested that current semantic web tracks include a brief introduction and overview, i.e. a mini tutorial customized for the particular track
- Connection to NASA Semantic Web Tech Infusion
- there was a telecon last week where the best infusion activities for ESIP summer meeting were discussed
- suggestions were to have application demos and a tutorial
- federation of ontologies was mentioned at the telecon as an outstanding issue in application use/development. everyone develops their own ontology specific to their project
- Tech Infusion members will be invited to semantic web business meeting to discuss these issues
- Next telecon 4th week in June
- would like to move telecons to 3pm but Erin pointed out that would conflict with Information Quality telecon
- will try to move to 1pm pending consensus from mailing list