SWTeleconNotes20121127

Attendees

• Bob Groman
• Erin Robinson
• Peter Fox
• Eric Rozell
• Bob Downs
• Linyun Fu
• Steve Aulenbach
• Marshall Ma
• Beth Huffer
• Chris Lynnes
• Alex Sorokine
• Line Pouchard

Previous 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 (DONE)
• 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

Action Items

• Eric - document the ToolMatch software stack
• Eric - look into the rules that Chris Lynnes provided, to create mappings to DL or FOL
• Eric - update Session info on Commons
• Chris, Eric, Peter - coordinate on Rules Overview session
• Peter - add OBO Foundry principles discussion to ESIP Winter Meeting agenda

Notes

Action Items Review

• Eric, not done
• Peter discussed governance at ISWC
  • OBO Foundry principles (http://www.obofoundry.org/crit.shtml) (or search "OBO Foundry principles")
    • Add to agenda of Semantic Web Winter Meeting session
  • Positive feedback on potential joint ESIP / EarthCube workshop for early career

ToolMatch update

• Dedicated session on state of ToolMatch
  • Logistics: WebEx (ESIP Semantic Web email list, contact Erin for scheduling)
• At ESDSWG meeting, Deanna Pennington has VLC project which may overlap with ToolMatch
• Eric spending time on ToolMatch in December
• Contact Chris, Eric, or Peter if interested in participating
• http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ToolMatch

Ontolog Update

• Ontology organization, have a series of geo-related ontology talks
• Dahlia could not attend
• Final session for Ontolog coming up in December
• http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog

Ontology Governance Update

• Will be looking at OBO Foundry Principles
• One of the Semantic Web Meeting will be discussing ontology governance

Information Quality Cluster Interactions

• Peter joined Info Quality telecon
• Cluster just re-initializing
• Activity at Winter Meeting to rebuild on presentations made at Santa Fe Summer Meeting
• http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/November_2012_IQ_Cluster_Meeting
• Topics
  • Formalizing machine-encoded vocabularies for info quality
  • bridging gap btw data and info quality
  • Building on info quality gaps with ISO 19157

Winter Meeting Planning

• http://www.esipfed.org/meetings
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArDAFB2BsbfRdDNxN2RHbWhORGFHSnhIZEtpU0xaSkE#gid=0
• Two Sessions: Day 2 1:30PM, Day 2 3:30PM
• Session 1: ESIP BioPortal/Ontology Portal overview and governance
  • Natasha will present remotely
  • Use portal, annotate, etc.
  • Governance
• Session 2: Rules/ToolMatch discussion, Info quality, business meeting, etc.
• Session 3: Joint session with Info Quality
• Webex in each room
• Erin re-arranging Discovery and Semantic Web session
• Early registration is THIS Friday (November 30)

New Business

• Who will be at AGU?
  • Giving poster and talks about ESIP collaboration and BioPortal at AGU
  • Post Semantic Web posters or talks that would be interest to Semantic Web
    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArDAFB2BsbfRdEJEbEZfOXVNT2xIM0JNbmFPNE14clE