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OpenOntologyRepository: Architecture & API Workshop-III - Fri 2011_03_25
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Topic: "OOR Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III"
Session Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider
Conference Call Details
- Date: Friday, 25-Mar-2011
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Attendees
- Attended:
- Ken Baclawski (co-chair)
- Todd Schneider (co-chair)
- Terry Longstreth
- JouniTuominen
- Peter P. Yim
- Tim Darr
- Michael Grüninger
- Expecting:
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- ... 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. ...
- Regrets:
Agenda Ideas
please insert any additional items below (along with your name for follow-up purposes)
- The specifications to be discussed at the meeting are the following (not necessarily discussed in this order):
- the OOR Architecture
- the OOR API
- the Organizing Plan
- the default development platform
- Todd Schneider (ref.): - agenda to include:
- 0) Adopting (formally) the work from the last workshop, modulo any discussion/modifications entered on the wiki page.
- 1) Decomposing the 'Workflow' component into its various subcomponents.
- Peter: we should really try to get into a position whereby people can start contributing code ASAP
Abstract
As a result of the two OOR Architecture and API panel sessions, we have seen a large number of architectures and APIs for ontology repositories. We have had requirements for the OOR, at least in broad outline form, since the Ontology Summit 2008. We have been running an OOR sandbox based on BioPortal. Most recently, we have forked from the BioPortal code base with the intention of proceeding separately with the development of a reference implementation.
The various architectures and APIs for ontology repositories are available at OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture
At this meeting we begin the process of producing the actual OOR specification. It will be run as a workshop where the straw man proposal will be discussed and modified as needed.
Here is the straw man architecture: OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture/Candidate03
In addition, there is an API of the core services that was obtained from BioPortal, which is not entirely compatible with the straw man architecture, but furnishes a starting point. This API will also be discussed and modified as needed.
Here is the API expressed in WSDL: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/oor/OORService.wsdl
Here is the API expressed in Java: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/oor/OORI.java
Finally, we need to agree on a plan for completing the development of the specification.
Here is the proposed organizing plan: OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture/GettingOrganized
We encourage all to up date your candidate contributions to ensure your ideas are known and understood.
The following are relevant prior meetings:
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-I - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-I - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_04
- 2011.02.04 discussion
- 2010_11_19 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion - "(Post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - Take-II" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Michael Grüninger - Panelists: KenBaclawski+ToddSchneider, AldoGangemi+AlessandroAdamou, JouniTuominen+KimViljanen, Eric Chan - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_11_19
- 2010_10_15 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - discussion on the (post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_15
Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:
- Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider takes the chair and welcome everyone
- review and adopt agenda
- Peter P. Yim volunteered to keep a record of the proceedings
2. Roll Call & Adoption of last meeting's minutes:
- see above
- minutes of the last meeting adopted, as captured in the proceedings on the session page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11
3. Key items for review and discussion today:
- "OOR Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III:" (Archives)
- audio archive of the session [ 0:57:15 ; mp3 ; 6.55 MB ]
-- begin in-session chat-transcript --
Peter P. Yim: = OpenOntologyRepository: Architecture & API Workshop-III - Fri 2011_03_25 =
anonymous Tim Darr
Peter P. Yim: Ken Baclawski and All: minutes of the last meeting adopted, as captured on the
session page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11
Peter P. Yim: ref. KenBaclawski's documentation on "workflow"
- see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11#nid2PQH
Peter P. Yim: paper is at: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/oor/workflow.pdf and the API is
at: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/oor/workflowAPI.pdf
Peter P. Yim: ref. use cases documentation, see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases
Peter P. Yim: OOR use cases, in particular, see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/OOR-Use-Cases/oor-usecase-v2.xml
Peter P. Yim: Ken and Todd ... if you could capture some of the conversation into the chat for the records,
that would be great!
Todd Schneider: The architecture diagram on http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture/Candidate03
has been updated to the 11 March 2011 changes.
Todd Schneider: Definition: Workflow = a sequence of possible actions that can be undertaken in the system
Todd Schneider: The OOR supports a multiplicity of workflows
Todd Schneider: Registrar - Human Role: 0) Approves workflows or change thereto; 1) Approves workflow stewards (for a community)
Ken Baclawski: The problem of the granularity of registration is a continuing issue. While there
is general agreement that the granule (administered item) should be an ontology version
(or ontology module version) as well as associated item such as mappings, configurations,
this clashes somewhat with the OOR API that we have right now (based on BioPortal) which has methods for
updating ontologies.
Ken Baclawski: To allow the OOR to develop independently of BioPortal while at the same time
taking advantage of the continuing development of BioPortal, I suggested that the Workflow component
act as a facade (in the sense of design patterns) over the BioPortal core.
-- end of in-session chat-transcript --
4. Any Other Business:
5. Action items:
6. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:
- Next Meeting:
- next week - we will be having the regular OOR team meeting on Fri 2011.04.01
- see developing session page is at OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_04_01
- after that, another Architecture-API workshop session? - (TBD) OOR-Architecture-API workshop (IV) team session, Friday, for 1 hours only - Fri 2011.04.08 - 6:00am PST / 9:00am EST (ref. worldclock)
- Note: earlier resolution: all team members please (if possible) block out Fridays 1.5 Hr
- 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) (or something in between) ...
- next week - we will be having the regular OOR team meeting on Fri 2011.04.01
- Call adjourned at: 7:00am am PDT
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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2011.03.27-1:45m PDT
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.
Resources
- homepage - OpenOntologyRepository - http://OpenOntologyRepository.org
- proceedings of our previous meetings
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_01_23
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_02_13
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_05
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_14
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_21
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_04_04
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_04_18
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_09
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_23
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_06_06
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_06_20
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_07_11
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_07_25
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_08_08
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_08_29
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_09_05
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_09_19
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_03
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_10
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_17
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_11_07
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_11_14
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_12_12
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_01_09
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_01_23
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_02_06
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_03_06
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_03_20
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_04_03
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_01
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_15
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_29
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_06_12
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_06_26
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_07_10
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_07_24
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_08_14
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_09_04
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_09_18
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_10_02
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_11_13
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_12_11
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_01_08
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_01_22
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_05
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_05
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_19
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_04_16
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_04_30
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_05_21
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_06_11
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_07_09
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_07_23
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_08_06
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_08_20
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_09_03
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_01
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_29
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_12_17
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_01_07
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_01_21
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_02_04
- OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_02_18
- OOR Charter - To promote the global use and sharing of ontologies by: 1. establishing a hosted registry-repository; 2. enabling and facilitating open, federated, collaborative ontology repositories; 3. establishing best practices for expressing interoperable ontology and taxonomy work in registry-repositories.
- "Ontology Repository" Definition - "An ontology repository is a facility where ontologies and related information artifacts can be stored, retrieved and managed"
- OpenOntologyRepository_Scope - documentation related to this OOR initiative's mission, charter, objectives, goals, terms of reference, definitions, scope, ... etc.
- OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement - documentation related to the requirements of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through this OOR initiative.
- OpenOntologyRepository_Approach - documentation related to this OOR initiative's approach, and the process we will be using.
- OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture - documentation related to the architecture of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through this OOR initiative.
- OpenOntologyRepository_Plan
- OOR/ActiveMemberContribution
- Team mailling list:
- OOR-Team discussion: [ oor-forum ] message archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/
- OOR-Users discussion and support: [ oor-users ] message archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-users/
- Developers mailling list: [ oor-dev ] message archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-dev/
- the OOR-IPR mini-series:
- 2010_09_09 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-1: an exposition on relevant IPR regimes - Keynote speaker: George Strawn - Chair: Peter P. Yim - Panelists: JamieClark, John Wilbanks, Bruce Perens - ConferenceCall_2010_09_09
- 2010_09_16 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-2: what are the IPR issues relating to open ontology repositories (and ontologies in general)? - Chair: Mark Musen - Panelists: Cameron Ross, Alan Rector, John F. Sowa, Bruce Perens, John Wilbanks, Peter P. Yim - ConferenceCall_2010_09_16
- 2010_09_30 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-3: discussion and consensus on licensing arrangements for the OOR Initiative, and positions we might take on related IPR issues - chair: Leo Obrst - Panelists: Peter P. Yim, Mike Dean, Bruce Perens, JamieClark - ConferenceCall_2010_09_30
- the Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussions:
- 2008_02_28 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "Ontology Registry and Repository Technology & Infrastructure Landscape" - Co-chairs: Leo Obrst & Frank Olken; Panelists: Bruce Bargmeyer, Mike Dean, Mark Musen, Farrukh Najmi & Peter P. Yim - ConferenceCall_2008_02_28
- 2008_03_27 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations & Requirements - Session-1" - Chair: Leo Obrst & Fabian Neuhaus; Panelists: William Bug, Evan Wallace, JohnLMcCarthy, Ken Baclawski, Peter Benson & Rex Brooks - ConferenceCall_2008_03_27
- 2008_04_03 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations & Requirements - Session-2" - Chair: Leo Obrst & Fabian Neuhaus; Panelists: Doug Lenat, Deke Smith, Marcia Zeng, Denise Bedford, Pat Hayes, Mala Mehrotra & Rob Raskin - ConferenceCall_2008_04_03
- 2008_04_10 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "Developing an Ontology of Ontologies for OOR" - Co-chairs: Barry Smith & Michael Grüninger; Panelists: Michael Grüninger, Peter Haase, Natasha Noy & Elisa Kendall - ConferenceCall_2008_04_10
- the OOR Development panel sessions:
- 2008_08_22 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground: Identifying Synergies & Gaps" (Take-1) - Chair: Leo Obrst; Panelists: Mike Dean, Mark Musen, Li Ding, Bruce Bargmeyer & Bill Andersen - ConferenceCall_2008_08_22
- 2009_02_19 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground (Take-2): the work begins" - Chair: Todd Schneider; Panelists: Mark Musen, Natasha Noy, Mike Dean, Paul Buitelaar / Andreas Harth, Mathieu Daquin, Ken Baclawski, Michael Grüninger - ConferenceCall_2009_02_19
- 2009_07_16 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "Integrated tools for ontology development and management: A field guide to the Stanford technology" - Chair: Mark Musen - Panelists: Tania Tudorache, Tim Redmond, Natasha Noy - ConferenceCall_2009_07_16
- 2009_07_30 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "BioPortal and related Ontology Repository Implementations and Development" (Take-3) - Chair: Natasha Noy - Panelists: Carlos Rueda, Paul Alexander, John Graybeal, Mike Dean, StephenGranite, AlexGarcia, Ken Baclawski - ConferenceCall_2009_07_30
- 2010_02_19 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Coordinating our Open Ontology Repository Software Development" - Chair: Mike Dean - Panelists: Jim Chatigny, Michael Grüninger, Ken Baclawski, Natasha Noy - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_19
- 2010_04_01 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog Panel Session: "OOR Use Cases - Take-3" - Chair: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - Panelists: Todd Schneider, Matthew Hettinger, Ken Baclawski and Máximo Gurméndez - ConferenceCall_2010_04_01
- 2010_09_10 - Friday: Joint SIO-OOR-Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Common Logic (CL) Support for OOR" - Chair: John F. Sowa - Panelists: JohnBateman-TillMossakowski, Michael Grüninger, Cameron Ross, Adam Pease, Pat Hayes - ConferenceCall_2010_09_10
- 2010_09_17 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion - "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-IV" Workshop - Co-chairs: Todd Schneider & Michael Grüninger - Panelists: Todd Schneider, Mike Dean, Natasha Noy, Immanuel Normann, Ken Baclawski, Michael Grüninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_09_17
- 2010_10_15 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - discussion on the (post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_15
- 2010_11_19 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion - "(Post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - Take-II" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Michael Grüninger - Panelists: KenBaclawski+ToddSchneider, AldoGangemi+AlessandroAdamou, JouniTuominen+KimViljanen, Eric Chan - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_11_19
- 2011_03_04 - Friday: OOR "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-I" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_04
- 2011_03_11 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-II" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11
- 2011_03_18 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-I - Chair: Michael Grüninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_18
- 2011_03_25 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_25
- OntologySummit2008 homepage
- OntologySummit2008_Communique
- OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda
- The OOR Project Presentation (delivered at the Ontology Summit 2008 face-to-face workshop)
- [ ontology-summit ] discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2008-01/ (~5 months exchanges starting from Jan-2008)
- Our key content pages:
- OpenOntologyRepository_Scope
- OpenOntologyRepository_Organization
- OpenOntologyRepository_Process
- OpenOntologyRepository_Policy
- OpenOntologyRepository_IPR
- OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement
- OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases
- OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture
- OpenOntologyRepository_Approach
- OpenOntologyRepository_Roadmap
- OpenOntologyRepository_Plan
- OpenOntologyRepository_Funding
- OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchIssues
- OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchActivity
- OpenOntologyRepository_Development
- OpenOntologyRepository_Metadata
- OOR Project site at SemWebCentral - http://oor.semwebcentral.org
- Public sandbox instance of OOR (OOR-sandbox) - http://sandbox.oor.net/ontologies (previously http://oor-01.cim3.net/ontologies)
- OOR_SandBox
- NCBO-OOR development documentation - http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO-OOR_Development