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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Tue 2012_01_10

This is a regular OOR Team meeting. ... please refer to proceedings from the last team meeting at OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_12_06

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Tuesday, 10-Jan-2012
  • Start Time: 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET / 16:30 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, devbox, socop-instance status update
  • planning and coordination on upcoming OOR events
  • doing something at Ontology Summit 2012
  • Member activities updates
  • action planning for "content drive" (getting people to upload ontologies)
  • Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box
  • ...

Agenda & Proceedings

Archives:

1. Meeting called to order:

  • Mike Dean takes the chair and welcome everyone
  • review and adopt agenda
  • Peter P. Yim volunteered to take notes

2. Roll Call:

  • welcome and intro of new member(s) (if applicable)

3. Status Review and Discussion:

4. Key items for review and discussion today

  • OOR: sandbox, devbox, socop-instance status update
    • ref. http://oor-03.cim3.net
    • <oor-04.cim3.net> is up (still on CANTOR)
      • we are assigning oor-04 as the socop instance - Peter will make the DNS record (with a short TTL, say 1-hr) for it to be addressable as <socop.oor.net>
    • Peter: WITTGENSTEIN is not up yet, but when it is, and tested ok, Peter will relocate that to the datacenter as a production machine (the socop instance will be relocated over there too.)
    • customization:
  • planning and coordination on upcoming OOR events
    • Metadata workshop - 2012_01_17 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-V - Chair: Michael Grüninger - NIH/NCI-ORWG Panel: Harold Solbrig, SherriDeCoronado, Brian Davis - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_17   
    • re-scheduling metadata session: with Mike Bennett on financial metadata [MichaelGruninger]
    • re-scheduling Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-3: on "ISO/IEC 24707 Common Logic and IKL" [MichaelGruninger & JohnBateman]
    • OOR Architecture & API Workshop-X now scheduled for 31-Jan-2012
    • next Content workshop?
    • ... lining up more?
  • doing something at OntologySummit2012
    • Todd will champion OOR by injecting it into any track where it makes sense ... also by way of NCOIC involvement
    • Mike will support (technically, especially by way of the socop-oor instance) Nancy and Gary in the collaborative SOCoP-INTEROP / Summit workshop that Nancy is spearheading
    • Ken will work on one presentation (on behalf of OOR), which Todd and Peter will try to slot into one of the sessions - possibility: "OOR and webservices"
    • ... think of something we can engage Duane Nickull on
  • Member activities updates - ref. below ... (item skipped; discussion deferred)
  • action planning for "content drive" ... (item skipped; discussion deferred) (getting people to upload ontologies)
  • Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box ... (item skipped; discussion deferred)

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

  • planning and coordination on upcoming OOR events
  • Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box ...(we will skip this stock agenda item at today's call.)
  • action planning for facilitating code contribution (organizing ourselves so various sub-teams can actually get to work on coding) ...(we will skip this stock agenda item at today's call.)
  • action planning for "soliciting" content (getting people to upload ontologies) ...(we will skip this stock agenda item at today's call.)
  • 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 development on an Eclipse IDE for all?
  • Code repository - considering "git" or github?
  • 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
    • 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:

  • Call adjourned at: 9:47 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2012.01.10-10:26am PST

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


Resources

  • 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 IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series:
    • 2011_10_20 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-1: Introducing the ISO NP 17347 "Ontology Integration and Interoperability (OntoIOp)" Standardization Effort - Co-chairs: John Bateman & Michael Grüninger - ConferenceCall_2011_10_20
    • 2011_11_03 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-2: Invited Speaker: Elisa Kendall on "Ontology-Related Metadata Standards" - Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & John Bateman - ConferenceCall_2011_11_03
    • 2011_12_15 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-3: "ISO/IEC 24707 Common Logic and IKL" - Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & John Bateman - ConferenceCall_2011_12_15