SWTeleconNotes20120124

January 24, 2012 Telecon

New Telecon Time
- Peter would like to move the telecons to 4pm due to teaching conflict
  - everyone on the telecon was ok with the new time
  - Chris mentioned that we need to verify that Peter can be online by 4pm. 4:15 might be better to allow time to leave his class
Current Activities
- ESSI-LOD
  - Tom and Eric met with AGU CIO who is very receptive to linked data idea
  - AGU CIO is currently exploring setting up AGU triplestore and serving their linked data
  - Tom/Eric would be given access to AGU triplestore as well as AGU website to maintain/promote this project
  - AGU still hesitant about releasing data until after meetings have occurred - they will provide data for all past AGU meetings in a more usable XML format (as opposed to HTML) - Eric/Tom will convert to RDF, but no data will be released prior to an AGU meeting due to AGU concerns over syncing/data quality issues
  - working with Erin to integrate more ESIP data - clusters and cluster members/chairs
  - exploring Google Refine as a possible tool for addressing people/organization ambiguities
New Activities
- Chris gave overview of ToolMatch, an effort to use ontologies and linked data to match tools and services with data.
  - Chris is soliciting help with this effort - sign up on the wiki or contact him directly
  - The plan is to map out what needs to be done and by whom over the next few months
  - would like to have regular telecons and a meeting at ESIP summer meeting to work on model development
  - Connection to Service Casting were mentioned and it was discussed that the Discovery cluster should be involved
  - Hook - ToolMatch's linked data/ontology approach should be the back end to service casting, an interface of this type could output service casts
- Chris gave overview of white paper on semantic web usage in Earth Science
  - would like to get this completed in next few weeks - those who haven't contributed are encouraged to do so soon
  - several usages for this white paper
    - esip information commons
    - earth science data working group
    - submission to earth cube
- James Gallagher gave overview of how Opendap now supports RDF
  - several use cases where discussed including integrated visualization from multiple opendap servers as well as metadata conversions and casting
  - James will continue discussions with Peter and the cluster to explore future use cases and applications