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