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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Tue 2011_11_01

This is a regular OOR Team meeting. ... please refer to proceedings from the last team meeting at OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_04

* * * Please pay special attention to the time of this event, as the US is still on Daylight Saving Time (summer time), while Europe is back to Standard Time (winter time) * * *

* * * Please also note that we are calling into a new conference bridge starting from this session, note the new dial-in information! * * *

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Tuesday, 1-Nov-2011
  • Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
  • Dial-in:
    • Phone (US): +1 (206) 402-0100 (long distance cost will apply)
    • Skype: joinconference
    • when prompted enter PIN: 141184#
  • 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)

  • OOR-sandbox and OOR-devbox status update
  • Member activities updates
  • planning and coordination on upcoming OOR events
    • OOR Architecture-API sessions, OOR Metadata sessions, Standards sessions, next regular team meeting, ... more
  • action planning for facilitating code contribution (organizing ourselves so various teams can actually get to work on coding)
  • Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box
  • action planning for "soliciting" content (getting people to upload ontologies)
  • ...
  • Peter P. Yim: after we are done with the regular OOR team agenda, we need help from everyone who can stay to test an alternate conference bridge as well
  • ...

Agenda & Proceedings

Archives:

1. Meeting called to order:

  • the first conference bridge we were planning to test (FZM) did not work out (we hit full capacity after a few connections), therefore, moved directly to testing the alternate conference bridge (ITS2).

2. Roll Call:

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

3. Status Review and Discussion:

4. Key items for review and discussion today

  • OOR-sandbox and OOR-devbox status update - see below
  • planning and coordination on upcoming OOR events - see below
    • OOR Architecture-API sessions, OOR Metadata sessions, Standards sessions, next regular team meeting, ... more
  • Member activities updates - see below ... (discussion postponed)
  • action planning for facilitating code contribution (organizing ourselves so various teams can actually get to work on coding) ... (discussion postponed)
  • Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box ... (discussion postponed)
  • action planning for "soliciting" content (getting people to upload ontologies) ... (discussion postponed)
  • we need help from everyone who can stay to test an alternate conference bridge "ITS2" as a candidate for future calls
  • planning and coordination on upcoming OOR events - workshop plans
    • Michael: ISO 19763 - Thu Nov-3 (12:30 EDT)
      • Peter will get a reminder out (after this meeting) based on prelim material received from Elisa Kendall (at least as a placeholder)
    • Session on "Getting OOR Development going on Eclipse" - aim for Tue 2011.11.08 (if not then Tue 2011.11.22)
    • Ken / Todd - OOR-Architecture-API IX - "NCBO-OOR architectural considerations and synergies" + "creating BioPortal Tabs" - Tue 2011.11.29 (RayFergerson is ok with this date; he is not available on 2011.11.22)
    • Michael: OOR-Metadata V - ??? ... Mike Bennett will send something he will contribute to Michael;
    • OntologiesAndStandards III - on "Common Logic" - tentative Thu 2011.12.15 ... - candidate panel: Fabian Neuhaus, Leo Obrst, ... - Chair: Michael Grüninger & John Bateman
    • Fact Guru incorporation & integration?
    • more on SIO ...?
    • other sessions of interest ???
    • next regular OOR team meeting Tue 2011.12.06 (11:30 EDT)

... Notes below are from previous meeting(s), and will be updated as this meeting progresses.

  • Discussion: the newly adopted dual-track OOR approach
    • action planning
      • we run (for now) 2 instances - a sandbox instance[1] on the OOR-01 vm, and an experimental instance[2] on the OOR-02 vm
        • [1] this will be a straight forward, and updated BioPortal code install, with customization only for: the logo, the IP / License statement, categories.
        • [2] this will be the instance we use to continue the current work of further development in Architecture, API, metadata, CL support, etc.
        • consensus: both instances would use the same database (so ontologies uploaded are accessible by both instances, and are obviously "in sync" ... saving us the need to "import" as we ad discussed at the last meeting)
      • Peter: the next things to push is to have "gatekeeping" in place so we can stand up a "production" OOR
  • updating "categories"
    • Peter: the ICOM people suggests adding the categories of "standards" and "collaboration" (the latter probably belongs under "Cultural"
    • Mike: something like Dublin Core should go under "metadata" - we are adding this category, "process" too
    • discussed - see updated "category" list at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_08_05#nid2W6B
    • one can select multiple categories by doing a "ctrl-click" (or "cmd" for Mac users)
    • Ken: the software stores "categories" in an OMV ontology, and support a hierarchy of nested categories
      • Mike: there is a GUI interface for adding categories
    • All: we probably want to leave it simple (one level) and support "addition of categories" on demand
    • Todd: For some categories, e.g., science, subcategories will be needed. Since the provided listing is linear, subcategories could be listed as pairs or triples: Science, Science - Biology, Science-Physics, Science-Physics-Gravitation, etc.
    • Leo: we might consider adopting some standard categorization, like what the Library of Congress has put out (maybe not the entire hierarchy, but only the very upper level(s)
  • Category list (based on MikeDean's list): (updated 2011.08.05)
    • Upper Ontologies
    • Standards (for example, Measurement)
    • Science (for example, Biomedical)
    • Financial
    • Government
    • Cultural (for example, Social Networking, People)
    • Geospatial
    • Commercial
    • Literature
    • Technology
    • Provenance
    • Defense
    • Metadata (for example, OMV, Dublin Core)
    • Process (for example, PSL)
    • Other
  • Getting us to a stage when members can contribute code ... how, ETA?
    • (discussion 2011.05.06):
      • an adopted Architecture & API is definitely crucial, but that's not all
    • All team members are encouraged to mull over how we can get to that state effectively
      • in particular ... how do we make this a "successful" community-driven, open source project!?
    • (discussion 2011.06.03) ...
  • Code repository - considering "git" or github?
  • getting the OOR code repository at semwebcentral started (for real!) - http://oor.semwebcentral.org/
    • OOR_SandBox - http://sandbox.oor.net/ontologies (previously http://oor-01.cim3.net/ontologies)
    • OOR code-repository and re-assessing the 'branch instead of fork' (what does that mean?) [MikeDean, Ken Baclawski, et al.]
    • categories - ref. MikeDean's msg - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-dev/2011-02/msg00012.html
    • 2011.02.18: *Important Note* - we will start afresh on the OOR sandbox content (i.e. uploaded ontologies) after the update install - everyone who has uploaded ontologies so far should note
      • those who are "using" the OOR sandbox content now, should note down the ontologies they need, and may need to contact the authors to upload them again if they don't show up. (presumably, those content relating to biomedicine, previously federated from BioPortal, will not be there any more, at least not automatically.) Also, links to ontologies or elements within ontologies established previously will no longer be valid after the content gets re-populated - Ken will make a post about this on [oor-forum]
    • workplan:
      • update codebase to appropriate oor install code
        • The consensus is that we should use a uniform language in each component to make it easier for people to contribute code and add extensions.
        • customize banner/logo
        • customize IPR statement
        • re-establish categories - ref. MikeDean's input
  • Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box ... what's still needed, ETA?
    • ...

Member activities updates:

  • Review: members and OOR-related activities (2011.11.01)
    • OOR-sandbox status
    • code repository status
    • NCBO
    • NEU
    • Raytheon-BBN
      • Mike Dean: I am attending SSO 2011, sponsored by SOCoP and am making a brief presentation of OOR as a lightning talk.
    • Bremen
    • UToronto
    • Ryerson
    • Mathet
    • SOCoP_INTEROP
    • DataONE
    • NeOn (KMi and STL)
    • ONKI
    • KBSI
    • MMI
    • Use Cases
    • Architecture
    • API
    • Gatekeeping
    • production OOR instance
    • SIO
    • Funding
    • ICOM / DERI

Action planning for "soliciting" content (getting people to upload ontologies)

5. Funding progress:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meeting:
    • next session - Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series: session-2 - Invited Speaker: Elisa Kendall on ISO 19763 - this Thursday ConferenceCall_2011_11_03
    • next OOR-team meeting - Tue 2011.12.06 same time - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_12_06
  • Call adjourned at: 9:37 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2011.11.01-9:38am PDT

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

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