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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2010-12-17

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Friday, 17-Dec-2010
  • Start Time: 9:00am EDT / 6:00am PDT / 3:00pm CET / 2:00pm BST / 14:00 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)
    • When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "4389979#"
    • from Europe, call:
      • Austria 0820-4000-1577
      • Belgium 070-35-9992
      • France 0826-100-280
      • Germany 01805-00-7642
      • Ireland 0818-270-037
      • Italy 848-390-179
      • Spain 0902-886-056
      • Switzerland 0848-560-327
      • UK 0844-581-9148
    • 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 item above (along with your name for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

  • Leo Obrst takes the chair and welcome everyone
  • review and adopt agenda
  • note that we are running an in-session chat facility during this meeting. Please login there (with your WikiWord name.)
  • Peter P. Yim volunteered to take notes

2. Roll Call:

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

3. Status Review and Discussion:

  • Urgent issues:
  • 1. Prepare and adopt an OOR system architecture
    • define and adopt a set of API's
    • define and adopt the set of ontology metadata (as an extension of OMV) that authors of the ontology are required to provide when they upload ontologies to the OOR
  • 2. continue to push OOR development and get more contributors
    • get our code repository at semwebcentral operational
    • add CL support to OOR
  • 3. set up policies and process and policies for contributing to OOR work
    • setup clear and easy policies and process to engage developers and have them contribute code
    • clarify IPR issues related to Ontology & OOR and adopt a consensus IPR policy for OOR contributions
    • build out "gatekeeping" and move from just having an OOR-sandbox to having available instances of an OOR-sandbox and an OOR-production
    • setup clear and easy policies and process to engage content stewards and have them contribute ontologies to our public instance of OOR
  • 4. systematically solicit content contributions
  • 5. get the work funded
  • 6. regularly review requirements and existing standards to make sure we are on track
  • 7. continue with efforts in publicity and outreach

Key items for review and discussion today

  • Architecture-API progress review
  • OOR team/collaborator/contributor status review and 2011 plan - please bring your 2011 plans along to share with the rest of the team

items below are from previous meeting discussions ... and will be updated as this meeting progresses ...

  • OOR APIs
    • ref. the "OOR common resources" discussion thread - starting from: Cameron's post
    • action items -
  • Ontology metadata requirement
    • action items -
  • Code Repository
    • ETA of the oor.semwebcentral.org going into operation with baseline code? - [Mike: by 2010.10.15]
    • do we consider github (as suggested by Natasha Noy on 2010.09.17)?
    • action items -

4. Member activities updates:

5. Funding progress:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meeting:
    • no meeting on Fri 2010.12.30 ... Happy Holidays, everyone!
    • our next regular team call, Fri 2011.01.07 - 16:30 UTC (ref. worldclock)
      • Peter P. Yim: on reviewing our doodle poll (below) I moved the 17:00 UTC start-time (we discussed at the meeting) to 16:30 UTC (so we conform better with the community input.)
    • developing session page will be at OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_01_07
    • Question (from Peter): is most of the EU back to work yet?
    • 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
    • ref. our doodle poll (see: http://doodle.com/a2snxkpkd8hhxek4 ), looks like we can settle in on two new meeting times - a 6:00am PT (14:00 UTC) and an 8:30am PT (16:30 UTC) ...
  • Call adjourned at: 7:16 am PST

Transcript of the online chat during the session

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2010.12.17-7:18 PST

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


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