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OpenOntologyRepository: Architecture & API Workshop-XI - Tue 2012_03_20
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Topic: "OOR Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-XI"
Session Co-chairs: Professor Ken Baclawski & Dr. ToddSchneider
Conference Call Details
- Date: Tuesday, 20-Mar-2012
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Attendees
- Attended:
- Ken Baclawski (co-chair)
- Todd Schneider (co-chair)
- Peter P. Yim
- Till Mossakowski
- Mike Dean
- Expecting:
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- Regrets:
- Michael Grüninger
- Todd Schneider (can only stay for half-an-hour)
- ...
Session Abstract & Resources
At this "OOR Architecture & API" series of meetings, we are going through 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.
The various architectures and APIs for ontology repositories presented for consideration are available at OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture
Here is the status of the strawman architecture: OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture/Candidate03
In addition, there is an API of the core services that was obtained from anearlier implementation 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 participants to update your candidate contributions to ensure your ideas are known and understood.
The following are relevant prior meetings:
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-XI - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_20 (this session)
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-X - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_31
- Joint NCBO-OOR Session - "OOR Architecture & API Workshop-IX: BioPortal & OOR Synergies" - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_29
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VIII - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_11
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_20
- Kicking-off the Next Phase of OOR-NCBO Collaboration - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_13
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VI - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_17
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-V - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_20
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-IV - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_04_22
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_25
- Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-II - 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 Ideas
- Discussion
- the OOR Architecture
- the OOR API
- the Organizing Plan
- moving from OOR sandbox to OOR production
Agenda & Proceedings
- Audio archive of the session ... [ 0:58:21 ; mp3 ; 6.7 MB ]
- Chat transcript of the session
1. Meeting called to order:
- Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider took the chair and welcome everyone
- Peter P. Yim volunteered to keep a record of the proceedings
- review and adopt agenda
2. Roll Call & Adoption of last meeting's minutes:
- see above
- introduction of new members (as required)
- review of agenda
3. Key items for review and discussion today:
- Announcements and Urgent Matters:
- ...
... items below are mostly from the previous workshop, and will be updated as this session progresses.
- Review of action item(s) from the previous meeting(s)
- "OOR Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VIII:" (Archives)
- Gatekeeping specifies the a set of minimal requirements that any ontology within the OOR has to meet. The latter are intended to enable the users of the OOR to find quickly ontologies that fit their needs; the criteria are not supposed to ensure the quality of the ontologies.
- Each OOR instance declares what ontology languages it supports.
- Every OOR instance MUST support RDFS.
- This is required because the metadata is expressed in OMV.
- OMV is written in OWL, but it may be sufficient to require only RDFS. This needs to be investigated.
- Other ontology languages MAY be supported.
- For each metadata attribute, it will be specified whether it is required or optional.
- It MUST be specified whether the ontology is available (or to be available in the future).
- The ontology language MUST be specified.
- Other attributes will be handled offline by Michael Grüninger based on the OMV specification.
- An ontology must satisfy other requirements depending on the ontology language.
- Syntax checking is always required.
- Consistency checking is required with some time limit.
- Proposal for Partition of Components
- Presentation
- A minimal presentation module with just search and workflow
- Browse (already in BioPortal-based sandbox)
- Search (already in BioPortal-based sandbox)
- Mapping (already in BioPortal-based sandbox)
- Recommender (already in BioPortal-based sandbox)
- Annotator (already in BioPortal-based sandbox)
- Resource Index (already in BioPortal-based sandbox)
- Workflow Administration
- OOR Instance Administration
- Other windows
- Workflow
- Already developed, but needs to be documented
- Registrar
- A minimal registrar
- Find
- Initially adapt a SPARQL endpoint. Which one?
- Inference
- Initially a part of the SPARQL endpoint
- Other inference engines
- Persistence
- Initially adapt 4Store
- Administration
- TBD
- Federation
- TBD
- Presentation
Consensus, Conclusions & Follow-up Actions:
- Ken Baclawski: To deal with visualization of other ontology languages, there should be a visualization mapping mechanism (e.g., an automated way to extract the concepts and relationships from the ontology) that can use the existing visualization software or a visualization plugin capability that allows one to introduce an entirely new visualization.
4. Any Other Business:
5. Action items:
6. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:
- Next Meeting:
- we will hear from the Bremen folks on their recent "Ontohub" development effort - [ Tue 2012.03.27 ]
- next regular OOR team meeting next week - Tue 2012.04.03 same time - [ Tue 2012.04.03 ]
- Mike Dean: I'll probably have to miss that meeting, as I will be traveling.
- we'll plan other events at that meeting
- Call adjourned at: 9:31 am PDT
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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2012.03.20-11:47am PDT
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.
Resources
- homepage - OpenOntologyRepository - http://OpenOntologyRepository.org
- 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"
- 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/
- proceedings of our previous meetings, panel discussions and workshops
- 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
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- 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
- 2011_09_13 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Team Meeting - "Kicking-off the Next Phase of Collaboration" - Co-chairs: Ray Fergerson & Peter P. Yim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_13
- 2011_11_29 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Session - "OOR Architecture & API Workshop-IX: BioPortal & OOR Synergies" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - Discussant: Ray Fergerson - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_29
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- 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_25 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_25
- 2011_04_22 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-IV" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_04_22
- 2011_05_20 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-V" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_20
- 2011_06_17 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VI" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_17
- 2011_09_20 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_20
- 2011_10_11 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VIII" - Co-chairs: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_11
- 2012_01_31 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Workshop-X" - Co-chairs: Todd Schneider & Ken Baclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_31
- 2012_03_20 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Workshop-XI" - Co-chairs: Todd Schneider & Ken Baclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_20
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- 2011_11_08 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-V" Workshop - Chair: Mike Dean - "Getting OOR Development going, on Eclipse?" - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_08
- 2011_11_22 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VI" Workshop - Chair: Mike Dean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_22
- 2012_02_28 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VII" Workshop - Chair: Ken Baclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_02_28
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- 2011_03_18 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-I - Chair: Michael Grüninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_18
- 2011_05_13 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-II - Chair: Michael Grüninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_13
- 2011_05_27 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-III - Chair: Michael Grüninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_27
- 2011_10_18 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-IV - Chair: Michael Grüninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_18
- 2012_01_17 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-V - Chair: Michael Grüninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_17
- 2012_03_06 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-VI - Chair: Michael Grüninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_06
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- 2011_12_13 - Tuesdayday: OOR Infrastructure Workshop - Chair: Peter P. Yim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_12_13
- 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
- OntologySummit2008 homepage
- OntologySummit2008_Communique
- OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda & Proceedings
- 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/ActiveMemberContribution
- OOR Project site at SemWebCentral - http://oor.semwebcentral.org
- Public instances of OOR - http://sandbox.oor.net/ontologies (previously http://oor-01.cim3.net/ontologies) ... we are in process to standing up:
- OOR_SandBox - http://oor-03.cim3.net - http://sandbox.oor.net/
- OOR_DevBox - http://oor-01.cim3.net - http://dev.oor.net/
- see also: OOR_SandBox_Customization
- SOCoP_OOR - http://oor-04.cim3.net - http://socop.oor.net/
- NCBO - BioPortal
- BioPortal's [bioontology-support] mailing list - see: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bioontology-support
- NCBO-OOR development documentation - http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO-OOR_Development