SWTeleconNotes20110927

Action Items
- Peter and Greg to coordinate sub-discussion on info quality and semantic web
- Peter, Ruth, Chris, and Raul to coordinate sub-discussion on data and service ontology

Attendance
- Peter Fox
- Chris Lynnes
- Erin Robinson
- Ruth Duerr
- Greg Leptoukh
- Alex Sorokine
- Curt

AAG
- See email from Alex Sorokine in cluster mailing list
Cluster activities
- Quality: needed for Info Quality Semantic Web Primer
  - What are info quality needs for Semantic Web
  - Info Quality will present in a future SW cluster telecon
- Data / Service ontology
  - currently being used at UTEP
  - Ruth and Chris interested in using/furthering the ontology
- Preservation and Stewardship
  - Group has interest in reusing existing identifiers and vocabularies for people and projects
  - Semantic Web cluster has role of defining best practices for SW-related work, such as identifier/vocabulary reuse
- Discovery
  - Working on DCP-3, which will have a clearer role for SW technologies
  - Chris will be interested in presenting Discovery-related work in 2012
- Joint session with NASA TIWG in Nov. ESDSWG meeting
  - ESDSWG seeking demonstrations of Semantic Web use
  - If interested in giving a demo, contact Peter (who will connect you w/ Brian Wilson and Matt Little)
Eric/Tom activities
- Working on conversion of AGU abstract data into linked data (mostly complete)
- Also working on connecting AGU authors to corresponding people in ESIP community
  - Already have ESIP meeting attendance from Erin Robinson (in Excel)
- Likely that this work can be reused to help evaluate ESIP social network
- Other activities ongoing, such as uniquely identifying organizations and geospatial regions
  - Use case: Who from Organization X (or near Location Y) has (worked with | expertise in) Technology Z?
ESIP Network Use Case
- Erin Robinson brought up an evaluation of ESIP social network at Summer Meeting
- Potential to incorporate ESIP Skills and Expertise database and Eric and Tom's work on AGU-ESSI/ESIP correlation
- Chris suggests a hackathon for SemWeb community on this type of project
New activities
- Casting ontology
  - Summer meeting discussion about data and service casting ontology
  - data and service casting activities have converged around the discovery cluster
  - more info about SemWeb needs to come after Brian Wilson's upcoming DCP-3
- Revisit tutorials and webinars
  - Should the same tutorial be held again at the Winter meeting (not a lot of interest)
  - Could switch to a webinar instead, a set of presentations and a discussion, benefit is recording
    - individuals present different sections in the webinar
  - this is not as "dynamic" as a live tutorial, so should also incorporate Q&A
- Hackathon
  - Where should this be organized? ESIP Winter Meeting?
    - In the past, SW cluster has held ontology development sessions day before/after the Winter meeting
  - Chris suggests that significant planning should occur, could hold the hackathon at the summer meeting
Other business
- SSIII - WMO - SWEET
  - Ruth needs to adapt SWEET to a more specific domain ontology
  - SW Cluster is supposed to have a governance procedure for ontologies, including SWEET
  - Current suggestions and errors should be sent directly to Rob Raskin
  - Current governance procedure (will be updated on the SW cluster wiki page for governance)
    - Contact Rob Raskin directly to discuss the suggestions, update, extension, error, etc.
    - Rob will decide if change requires input from ESIP community (i.e, SW cluster) and notify cluster
    - Discussion will be held at the next telecon