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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2010-08-20

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Friday, 20-Aug-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
  • Dial-in Number:
    • from a US telephone (US): +1-218-844-8060 (domestic long distance cost will apply)
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    • callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
  • 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 any additional items below (along with your name for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

  • review and adopt agenda
  • note that we have added a in-session chat facility to the meeting

2. Roll Call:

3. Status Review and Discussion:

  • Urgent issues:
    • ...
  • Review of our priority list: ... (skipping discussion this time, due to long agenda)
    • 1. continue to push OOR development and get more contributors ... [All]
      • inclusive of adding CL support to OOR
    • 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]
      • clarify IPR issues related to Ontology & OOR and adopt a consensus IPR policy for OOR contributions [champions: Peter P. Yim & CameronRoss]
      • 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]

Key items for discussion at this call:

  • review of last meeting's action items
    • Peter P. Yim to work on rescheduling the planned events - done
    • Michael Grüninger to negotiate with John Bateman to see if they can work up a date for the "OOR Dev - Take-3" session - done (see below)
    • Ken Baclawski to look into why the OOR-sandbox is down right now
    • Mike Dean to get the code repository at semwebcentral ready for OOR development and code contribution
      • Ken Baclawski to coordinate with Mike Dean on getting the OOR code repository initialized with a code base ... and also,
    • Leo Obrst to ping Frank van Harmelen again to organize a LarKC presentation
      • [2010.08.06] Leo Obrst: Frank has recommended that Michael Witbrock (CycEur) could do the talk for us. Leo has written him ... will find out when he replies
    • Michael Grüninger to contact Bob Young (Loughborough)
    • Todd Schneider and Michael Grüninger to mull over the goals of our "Getting OOR Code Development Going - Take-III" workshop
    • Michael Grüninger will contact Mike Uschold to see what synergy we can get out of our OOR work and his "exemplary ontology" effort with ontology patterns
  • Peter P. Yim: engaging NeOn / ODP (Ontology Design Pattern) folks to collaborate in the OOR effort
  • Leo Obrst will contact Frank van Harmelen again to arrange for a LarKC (The Large Knowledge Collider) talk
    • Leo has sent message, haven't heard back from Frank
  • Paul Alexander to provide the BioPortal v2.5 update tag number
    • Paul: 2~3 weeks away
    • Tejas: v2.5 (before customizable banner update is in place) is now up
  • Plan out the upcoming "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-III" panel session during which we intend to discuss how we should manage to incorporate various ongoing OOR-related software development efforts, and how best to "fork" from the BioPortal codebase, and stay synergistic - Co-chair: Michael Grüninger & Todd Schneider - Panelists: Mike Dean, Natasha Noy, Ken Baclawski, AlexGarcia, John Bateman, Michael Grüninger, ... - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_09_03
    • Ken Baclawski already reviewing the v2.5 codebase, Ken, Natasha, Mike ... plus Todd, Michael and Cameron might do some work behind the scene between now and the "Fork" session.
    • Mike: we will fork after the v2.5 I18N customizable interface is available
      • Peter will liaise with Natasha and Paul to see if they can get that ready by Sep-3
  • Plan out the upcoming Joint SIO-OOR-Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Common Logic (CL) Support for OOR" - Chair: John F. Sowa - Panelists: John Bateman, Michael Grüninger, Adam Pease, Cameron Ross, Pat Hayes - ConferenceCall_2010_09_10
    • Cameron: have released "Samian Platform" that may provide CL backend for OOR ... developed over eclipse-lab
    • Peter: suggest panelists count on a 15 min presentation; and everyone assume the session will be 2~2.5 Hours
  • Progress report on the upcoming Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CreativeCommons "IPR" Panel series [PeterYim, Cameron Ross, Mark Musen, JohnWilbanks]
    • session-1: an exposition of the state of relevant IPR regimes - ConferenceCall_2010_09_09
    • session-2: what are the IPR issues relating to ontologies & ontology repositories - ConferenceCall_2010_09_16
    • session-3: discussion and consensus on what licensing arrangements would be best suited for the OOR Initiative - ConferenceCall_2010_09_23
  • possibly get some organization and planning status on the two tracks of the "Content" Panel Sessions ... and picking new labels and dates - Pat Cassidy (& Denise Bedford ?)
  • Review and updates on members' OOR-related activities
    • OOR-sandbox status
      • ref. OOR_SandBox v2.5 now up and running at http://oor-01.cim3.net
        • Site label now reads "BioPortal" (and not "OOR Sandbox")
        • a lot of error when uploaded ontologies are "explored" - at: http://oor-01.cim3.net/ontologies (e.g. 11179-3e3-core; FOAF v0.91), quite a few still "parsing," but there are ontologies that work (e.g. COSMO v0.61-877; Pizza; Time (Math))
    • code repository status
      • Mike: will try to engage Jim Chatigny to help merge the federation code
      • will continue the discussion on the [oor-dev]
    • NCBO
    • NEU
    • BBN
    • Bremen
    • UToronto
    • Ryerson
    • Mathet
    • Kojeware
    • DataONE
    • MMI
    • SOCoP
    • Use Cases
    • SIO
    • Funding

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

  • [2010.08.06] Pat Cassidy: do we want a wiki page for each Ontology on the OOR
    • Peter P. Yim: that should be on the OOR - gatekeeping, metadata capturing, other services that can make use of the metadata, user comments, etc.
    • we should coordinate with Natasha Noy (Stanford-NCBO) and Ken Baclawski (NEU) ... they are working on filling a lot of the similar requirements and needs
    • Pat Cassidy: we may still want a portal page where everybody goes to even before going to the OOR
    • Peter P. Yim: Mike Uschold is doing a similar thing with the ODP people (AldoGangemi and ValentinaPresutti) on their wiki ... we should be teaming up with them instead
    • Pat Cassidy: I'll try to find out more on what is supported now (btw ... the OOR-sandbox is down right now!)
  • Pat Cassidy will consider supporting IAOA resource pointer effort

New Issues:

  • ...

Any Other Business:

  • ...

Action items:

  • Leo Obrst to ping Michael Witbrock (CycEur) to organize a LarKC presentation
  • Michael Grüninger to contact Bob Young (Loughborough) to possibly engage him on the "CL for OOR" session
  • Paul Alexander to provide the BioPortal v2.5 update tag number when the I18N customization UI piece is ready
    • Peter P. Yim will liaise with Natasha and Paul to see if they can get that ready by Sep-3
  • Mike Dean: will try to engage Jim Chatigny to help merge the federation code
  • ...

Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meeting:
    • our next meeting will be the "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-III" panel session - see details session page at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_09_03
    • 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: 10:42 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2010.08.20-10:42am PDT

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

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