SWTeleconNotes20120626

Attendance

• Hook Hua
• Erin Robinson
• Eric Rozell
• Nancy Hoebelheinrich
• Robert Downs
• Ruth Duerr
• Chris Lynnes
• Mark Parsons
• Thomas Huang
• Peter Fox (late)
• Call-in User_1
• Call-in User_3
• Call-in User_5

Bioportal @ ORNL

• We should get a list of potential ontologies to pass to Lin
• Are there some criteria for what a "shareable ontology" might be?
  • An entry barrier to getting ontologies in may be too preventative
• Should this focus on micro-ontologies (small, reusable components)?
• What is the distinction between ESIP Commons and ontology portal?
  • ESIP Commons may ingest portal
  • The ontology portal is a source of advertising for your ontology
• The portal comes with all kinds of tools for visualizing, querying, etc.
• Is there a use case that is supposed to be solved using the ontology portal?
  • i.e., should they be targeted at a specific kind of use (can an ontology be too specific?)
  • The portal will provide a functional infrastructure for the SW Cluster to review/find ontologies
• We want to foster sharing, and limit the overhead for sharing
• List of initial ontologies:
  • Ruth: 5 sea ice and sea ice data related ontologies
  • Beth: initial ontology for data products as ASDC
  • Chris: DQSS ontology, MSDA ontology
• Should there be an engineering practices associated with the portal? (e.g., versioning)
  • Is it even possible to follow a consistent versioning across all of ESIP?
• As an ESIP cluster should we put together a best practices, including:
  • Versioning
  • Namespaces
  • Modularity
  • etc.
• Idea is to collaboratively modify an ontology as well.
• One of the key benefits of the Semantic Web is to connect data across organizational structures

SWEET and GCMD discussion

• Where is SWEET going next?
• Is there a formal governance model for SWEET?