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
• Peter: update the ontology governance process on the wiki

Attendance

• Peter Fox
• Chris Lynnes
• Erin Robinson
• Ruth Duerr
• Greg Leptoukh
• Alex Sorokine
• Curt Tilmes

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 (ESIP FUNding Friday Work)

• 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