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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2010-03-19

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Friday, March 19, 2009
  • Start Time: 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST / 5:00pm CET / 4:00pm GMT / 16:00 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
  • Dial-in Number:
    • from a US telephone (US): +1-218-844-8060 (domestic long distance cost will apply)
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  • RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated, ... or simply just by adding yourself to the "Expected Attendee" list below (if you are a member of the team.)
  • Please note that this session may be recorded, and if so, the audio archive is expected to be made available as open content, along with the proceedings of the call to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy.

Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • ... if you are coming to the meeting, please add your name above (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail <peter.yim@cim3.com> so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ...

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Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

  • review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

  • welcome and intro of new member(s) (as needed)

3. Status Review and Discussion:

  • Urgent issues:
    • none
  • Review of our priority list:
    • 1. continue to push OOR development and get more contributors ... [All]
    • 2. set up policies and process for contributing to OOR work
      • setup clear and easy policies and process to engage developers and have them contribute code ... [champion: MikeDean]
      • build out "gatekeeping" and move from just having an OOR-sandbox to having available instances of an OOR-sandbox and an OOR-production ... [champion: KenBaclawski]
      • setup clear and easy policies and process to engage content stewards and have them contribute ontologies to our public instance of OOR
    • 3. systematically solicit content contributions
    • 4. get the work funded ... [champion: KenBaclawski]
    • 5. regularly review requirements and existing standards to make sure we are on track ... [All]
    • 6. continue with efforts in publicity and outreach ... [All]

... some of the items below are from the previous call(s), and will be updated as we progressed on this meeting.

  • review priority list and assign champions
  • OOR-sandbox usage and progress review
  • progress review on planned OOR-related events
  • planning for upcoming virtual panel sessions on (i) Content, (ii) Use Cases, and (iii) IPR
    • Content Panel - candidate co-champions: Pat Cassidy, Denise Bedford ... (AldoGangemi (Michael will contact)?)
      • Pat Cassidy: Questions:
        • Q1. how are we related to other similar work? ... Peter explained the relationship between BioPortal and OOR
        • Q2. any discussion on how ontologies will be indexed? ... Mike: reference made to Ontology Summit 2008
        • Pat will help upload some ontologies to the OOR-sandbox (v.2) in the near future -- those he uploaded previously to the v.1 sandbox, updated, and add ontologies like SUMO (in OWL), etc.
        • Pat: suggest we add a link to swoogle (and other ontology search engine) too, to allow people to search, both within and without the OOR.
        • Peter suggest we be aware that we need the entire content spectrum from ontology-light to FOL-ontologies
        • Pat will contact Denise and come back with a date selection within a week -- candidate date Mar-25
    • Use Cases Panel-2 - candidate co-champion: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider to move ahead (Ken wasn't able to reach KGoodier)
    • candidate date Apr-1 (but will consider moving up to mar-25 if Pat & Denise gives up on that date)
    • Michael suggest that we can make it "more friendly" for content people to use the OOR (by having members of this OOR team provide help and support)
  • "Content"
    • track now split into two - one each to be championed by Pat and Denise - Pat: "Formal Ontology Content" ... we'll await for Denise to give us her label
    • Mar-25 being deferred, Pat and Denise will pick another date shortly
    • contact with Aldo Gangemi, Michael Uschold as presenters
    • Pat ask Michael if he plans to import ontolingua content into COLORE ... and Michael responded "yes ... some"
    • Pat will be putting up a wiki page to capture ontologies that will participate in "content"
      • Peter: suggest referencing the Protege wiki page and Aldo Gangemi & MichaelUschold's example ontologies pages to help with our page design (or even coordinate with Michael on it.)
    • Peter: suggest we don't led people to be believe we (members of the OOR team) will volunteer to upload and maintain those ontologies. We need to distribute that work (and responsibility) to the original owner/custodian of each ontology
    • Pat will circulate the open solicitation letter to the [oor-forum] list real soon
    • "Use cases" panel - 2010.04.01
      • Ken: still looking for panelists ... all else going well
      • Panelists: Ken Baclawski, Matt Hettinger, AliHashemi? (will confirm next Monday), Bill Bug (need to make contact ... Ken & Peter to work offline on it), Todd Schneider (possible, time alllowing), ...
      • Ali Hashemi considering making the slides, and Michael presenting it if he not available
    • deadline for titles, abstracts, full list of panelists will be Mar-25
    • "IPR cases" panel - t/b scheduled
      • Peter: still looking for a co-chair ... will work on this after the Summit
  • OOR presentation at the Semantic Technology 2010 Conference (21~25-Jun-2010, San Francisco, CA, USA.)
    • ... possibility of doing an OOR presentation at the Semantic Technology Conference (21~25-Jun-2010, San Francisco, CA, USA.) ... [champion: MikeDean]
    • Mike: proposal done! [Thank you Mike]
    • update/2010.03.05 - our proposal has been accepted. Mike Dean, Todd Schneider and Peter P. Yim will be doing a full (1-Hr) session to present OOR at this Conference, scheduled for 4:45 PM to 5:45 PM on Thursday, June 24, 2010.
  • Michael Grüninger made a brief report on Ontology Summit 2010
    • very successful, much better prepared going into the Symposium this year
    • no major controversies
    • OntologySummit2010_Communique has been released ... please endorse
    • Education workshop at FOIS in May (Toronto, Canada) will follow-up on that
    • there is consensus to develop the ontology and repository for Ontology Education and Ontology Education content
      • we have offered the use of our OOR to host that activities when that happens
  • reports on member activities that are OOR-related - see above
  • OOR-work Progress at NEU:
    • Ken: students have produce a few hundred use cases (lots of duplicates, of course) -- not exactly OOR, but related, with emphasis in gatekeeping ... project is actually called "Keeper"
    • Ken: students are interested in getting their work licensed and published/released.
      • have instructed student to consider picking some Creative Commons or Open Source Licence
  • OOR-work Progress at Raytheon-BBN:
    • Jim: reported on progress with federation work ... (Jim, Dan or Mike: please elaborate here, if you can get around to it.)
      • Jim's development OOR instance is able to federate from oor-01f (as the remote host) ... it works pretty well (and updates every minute!)
      • Jim will be presenting their work on Feb-19
    • Mike / Jim: we could offer this back to the BioPortal folks, and this could be discussed during the Feb-19 session
      • this work is under the BSD open source license
    • Mike/2010.03.19: Jim and Dan has left BBN, therefore no new development for a little while
      • next move is to migrate the BBN SVN content to semwebcentral (but probably not within the next two weeks)
  • Matt Hettinger: need to find out how one gets started with installing an OOR instance
    • Peter suggests:
      • (a) contact Ken Baclawski for the install instructions ... the NEU folks are also in the process of putting together some documentation for the install
      • (b) reference JimChatigny's notes - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-dev/2010-01/msg00018.html
      • (c) contact Tejas Parikh (of NEU) for initial help (use [oor-dev] too as much as one can, so as to help others in the future too.)
      • (d) post any question to the [oor-dev] list - the Stanford folks have been extremely responsive and helful
  • OOR-work in progress at Ryerson University
    • Bart installing OOR on local server
    • having technical problems, put on hold temporarily until time-cycles open up
    • server is online via ssh/ftp,
    • if anyone would like to assist, please let Bart Gajderowicz know (bgajdero@ryerson.ca)
    • AlexGarcia: re ORES10 - May 2010
      • call for paper extended to Mar 15
      • Alex: will look to collaborate with OOR,
      • Alex: will support remote presentation
        • Ken will make a presentation on OOR on behalf of this team
  • Funding and proposals ... (no update)
  • ... previously,
    • Ken Baclawski submitted an proposal to STCI, jointly with Peter P. Yim and MikeDean.
      • Ken: Our STCI proposal was declined by NSF due to formatting problems.
      • Ken: It will be revised and resubmitted - actual submission deadline is Apr-15; our internal deadline is Mar-31
    • Carlos Rueda has submitted a proposal that has OOR as a key aspect.
    • Nancy Wiegand / SOCoP also submitted a NSF proposal that OOR is a part
      • no news yet

4. New Issues:

5. Any Other Business:

6. Action items:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meeting:
    • our next event will be the "Use Cases" Panel Session - ConferenceCall_2010_04_01
    • next regular team call, same time, Fri 2010.04.16 - see details session page at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_04_01
    • everyone is urged to join us at the SIO session, if that gets confirmed for Mar-25, as that is intimately related to OOR
    • Note: earlier resolution: all team members please (if possible) block out Fridays 1.5 Hr starting 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT / 16:00 GMT/UTC
  • Call adjourned at: 10:04 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2010.03.19-10:12am PDT

All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.

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