SWTeleconNotes20120626

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Attendance

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

Action Items

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

Data Quality ontologies governance by cluster

Planning for the ToolMatch Talkoot and Summer

EarthCube Semantic Web community group report from Charrette and status

Other topics