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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2010-04-30

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Friday, 30-April-2010
  • Start Time: 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 6:00pm CEST / 5:00pm BST / 16:00 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
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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. ...

Agenda Ideas

please insert below (along with your name for follow-up purposes)

  • (introduced by AlexGarcia) Immanuel Normann, VyacheslavZholudev and Christoph Lange will tell us about their work on ontology repository versioning mechanisms
  • organization and planning status on the Joint OOR-NCBO-Ontolog "IPR" Panel Sessions ... and picking dates for the session(s) - Peter P. Yim, Cameron Ross, Dave Rubenson
  • organization and planning status on the two tracks of the "Content" Panel Sessions ... and picking new labels and dates - Pat Cassidy & Denise Bedford
  • try to come up with more clarity as to what should be discussed under SIO and/or OOR (ONTOLOG too, for that matter) and possibly even start a fix meeting schedule for SIO-dev work
  • reports on member activities that are OOR-related
  • ...

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
  • Logistics and Communications ... (skipping discussion this time, due to long agenda)
  • Review of our priority list: ... (skipping discussion this time, due to long agenda)
    • 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 [champions: Pat Cassidy & DeniseBedford]
    • 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]
  • Agenda review: Key items for discussion at this call:
  1. (introduced by AlexGarcia) Immanuel Normann, VyacheslavZholudev and Christoph Lange will tell us about their work on ontology repository versioning mechanisms
  2. organization and planning status on the Joint OOR-NCBO-Ontolog "IPR" Panel Sessions ... and picking dates for the session(s) - Peter P. Yim, Cameron Ross, Dave Rubenson
  3. organization and planning status on the two tracks of the "Content" Panel Sessions ... and picking new labels and dates - Pat Cassidy & Denise Bedford
  4. reports on member activities that are OOR-related
    • OOR-sandbox status
    • code repository status
      • Mike: will work on starting the trunk before the end of the week
      • will start by migrating the BBN trunk over (which is based on BioPortal v2.1) where the BBN federation codes
      • will add Ken Baclawski as a repository admin
    • NCBO
      • Natasha: BioPortal v2.4 now released
      • another release expected mid-May
    • NEU
      • Ken: active and busy
      • gatekeeping code almost ready, will add when new repository is up
    • BBN
      • Mike: no new update
    • Bremen
      • John: no new update
    • UToronto
    • Ryerson
      • Bart: just got an OOR instance up and running on a VMware instance
      • suggest if someone can make vm image available to ease installation
        • Ken: have a student who is trying to simplify the installation, hopefully, there will be less installation issues after that (will have more to report in a couple of weeks)
        • after this weekend's upgrade, Ken will try to get an image of the new install (Tomcat 6, java 6, BioPortal core v2.4)
    • Mathet
    • SOCoP
    • MMI
      • Ken: I'm talking to the MMI and will try to get efforts (in relation to OOR) coordinated
    • Use Cases
    • SIO
    • Outreach - FOIS, ORES10, SemTech, ...
      • see reports ref. FOIS (Leo, John), ORES10 (Alex, Christoph) & SemTech (Mike, Todd, Peter) below
      • AlexGarcia, Ken Baclawski and Mike Dean will explore proposing a workshop (similar to ORES) at ISWC - Nov. 2010, Shanghai - May 7 is deadline for workshop proposal.
        • Alex will take lead and do a first draft of the proposal
        • Peter will check with Natasha to see if they might be proposal a similar workshop for ISWC 2010
    • Funding
      • Ken: NSF OCI-STCI proposal submmitted
      • Alex: exploring a G8 possibility ... will keep everyone posted

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

  • IPR issues and the planning of an "IPR" Panel Session for both OOR & BioPortal that we will scheduled into the not-too-distant future
    • Cameron Ross will be joining Mark, Dave Rubenson and Peter P. Yim to help get these session organized
    • John Bateman: Open question: has the IPR issue been discussed with respect to the content of the OOR yet? I would think that ontologies, ontology modules and links between modules (in the form of more or less complex bundles of mappings) may need to be fixed with ownership/distribution and use licenses despite the first O in OOR... is this considered?
  • planning the two tracks of the "Content" Panel Sessions ... and picking new labels and dates - Pat Cassidy & Denise Bedford
    • need from both Pat and Denise: a date, a title and an abstract for the first session of each track
      • Pat will be creating a wiki page
      • Michael suggested that Pat starts a thread on the mailing list
  • reports on member activities that are OOR-related
  • 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
    • Ken/2010.04.16: use cases description ontology now online
    • Ken/2010.04.16: gatekeeping codes will be ready fairly soon
  • 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)
    • Todd/2010.04.16 - still need to stand up an instance at Raytheon ... can't quite access the BBN instance yet
  • OOR-work Progress at Bremen
    • AlexGarcia: ...
  • OOR-work in progress at Ryerson University
    • Bart installing OOR on local server
    • after a few technical problems, OOR is running on a VMWare instance
    • will port to live server in the coming week
    • perhaps a VMWare instance could be distributed, such as a LAMP bundle (eg. XAMPP)
  • 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 helpful
    • MattHettinger/2010.04.16: planning to install an instance of OOR and JohnBateman's codes, and possibly even COLORE ... pending resolution of some security issues on his site currently
  • SIO Project
    • try to come up with more clarity as to what should be discussed under SIO and/or OOR (ONTOLOG too, for that matter) and possibly even start a fix meeting schedule for SIO-dev work
    • Cameron: we probably should wait till we have the SIO Mission Statement from John F. Sowa before trying to make this conversation
    • Peter: since [sio-dev] is intended for implementation level conversation, and we aren't quite implementing things yet, maybe most of the discussions that are going on at [sio-dev] now actually belongs to [ontolog-forum] (those specific to OOR may possibly be on [oor-forum]) and then we should only start using [sio-dev] after we have started to implement things (similar to the case on how [oor-dev] is being used.)
  • FOIS-2010 - Toronto, Canada - May 11-14, 2010 - http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/
    • OntologySummit2010_Communique has been released ... please endorse
    • Join IAOA ... and get involved in the upcoming election of the next IAOA Executive Council
    • Education workshop at FOIS in May (Toronto, Canada) will follow-up on that
    • Arturo Sanchez & Antony Galton are spearheading an effort to develop an ontology-based and ontology-driven Registry of Ontology-Centered Educational and Training
      • ref. ConferenceCall_2010_04_15 - presentation and slides by Arturo Sanchez
      • Peter: we have offered the use of OOR as part of the infrastructure
  • Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web "ORES 2010" Workshop (colocated with ESWC 2010) - Heraklion, Crete, Greece - May 31, 2010 - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/
    • AlexGarcia: ...
    • 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
    • Pat: want to find out how to access proceedings from that workshop ... Ken will help find out

4. New Issues:

5. Any Other Business:

  • Peter: I received an offer for the <oor.net> domain name for about US$5000

6. Action items:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Call adjourned at: 10:24 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2010.04.30-10:29am PDT

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

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