SWTeleconNotes20120925

Attendees

• Chris Lynenes
• Peter Fox
• Eric Rozell
• Line Pouchard
• Anne Wilson
• Marshall X Ma
• Robert Downs
• Ruth Duerr

Action Items

• Eric - Determine state of ToolMatch application framework
• Line - Contact Stanford about BioPortal and keep Peter posted
• Peter & Line - follow up on role of BioPortal in ESIP
• Peter - contact a few people before next call to "convince" them to do more research on ontology governance
• Peter - contact Info Quality cluster lead to participate in their telecoms
• Chris, Eric, Peter - sync up on "rules" presentation for winter meeting

Notes

SW hackathon session topics

• ToolMatch Talkoot
  • Need an application framework
  • At this point, Eric hasn't worked on back-end since
  • Need to define/partion
  • UI for adding triplestore
  • Simple query interface (given a dataset, what tools work, etc.)
  • Some tools can only be "enumerated", but this should not be an issue
  • Get a framework up and running, do a dry run, then virtual Talkoot
• Training session for BioPortal (remote?) from Stanford Group
  • Line will reach out to Stanford contacts about this
• (Potentially) Annotations/Quality Control "hack-a-thon" session for Ontology
  • This would not require specific expertise in ontology portal?
  • But, if the SW cluster prioritizes what we want for Winter Meeting, that can go into the ESIP Products & Services proposal

SW Tutorials

• i.e., experts sessions
• what advanced topics are people interested?
  • Rule sets for tool datasets
  • Chris will be able to provide grounding examples

SW hands on

• i.e., cross cluster sessions
• Info Quality
• Preservation & Stewardship
• Energy & Climate

Ontolog sessions advertisement (EarthCube related) - Dalia

• Dalia (coordinator for Ontolog) is not on this call (no updates)
• Notes missed, discussion of EarthCube and ESIP relationship?

Ontology governance by cluster

• Functions; ticket, comment, tracking update
• What's put into Portal and by whom
• Curation guidance

• With all ontologies, there is some ownership (e.g., JPL for SWEET)
  • ESIP has governance responsibility for SWEET
  • If SWEET is put in some other repository (not-ESIP) JPL may not recognize comments, if it is the ESIP portal (which will be curated), then the changes will be made.
  • What's put into the portal and by whom?
  • This is not a "dumping ground" for random ontologies, paying attention to quality, annotations, etc.
  • We should get the initial portal to a point it can be released
• Set up a sub-group in SW cluster to discuss guidelines for content of ontologies in Portal
  • Volunteers?
    • Ruth is interested in the results of this, would play reviewer role
  • Are there any existing guidelines/best practices that we could adopt?
  • Mostly interested in: what types of ontologies should go in this? how should hack-a-thon sessions be targeted? etc…
  • Namespacing issues still need to be resolved (should an ESIP ontology be in a UAH namespace etc.)

Other business

• Not discussed