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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR "Strategy and Funding" Discussion Session - Tue 2012_10_30

This key discussion has been postponed, as we needed more participation for input and consensus ... we will cover this matter in the next monthly OOR Team confcall (scheduled for 6-Nov-2012) for this very important discussion.

Key Topic for Discussion: OOR Strategy and Funding - "A mini Strategic Planning Brainstorm Session"

Session Chair: Peter P. Yim

This is also consider a regular monthly OOR Team meeting as well as "OOR-Funding-III." Therefore, please refer also to proceedings from last month's team meeting at OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_07, and also our last "OOR Funding" session at OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_21

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Tuesday, 30-Oct-2012
  • Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC
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Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • (please add yourself to the list above if you are a member of the community, or, rsvp to <peter.yim@cim3.com> with the event title/date and your name and affiliation)

Agenda Ideas

  • Focused discussion on "OOR Strategy and Funding"
  • ... (add yours!)

Agenda & Proceedings

Archives:

1. Meeting called to order:

  • Peter P. Yim took the chair and welcomes everyone
  • Peter P. Yim volunteered to collate the notes, but encouraged everyone to capture their thoughts and document them on the chat board, as usual.
  • review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

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

3. Key discussion: OOR Strategy and Funding - "A mini Strategic Planning Brainstorm Session"

3.1 The "classic" (7-step) Strategic Planning process:

  • (i) Preparation & planning
  • (ii) Strategic Analyses
  • (iii) Set direction/strategy
  • (iv) Formulate tactics / Plan Actions
  • (v) Communicate Plans
  • (vi) Take action / Implement
  • (vii)Measure/evaluate results and fine tune strategy and tactics
  • re-iterate process

3.2 Let's focus today's discussion on (ii), (iii) & (iv)

3.3 (ii) Strategic Analyses - SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

3.4 For (iii) & (iv), let us make sure we stay "relevant" - and shape ours using the Curt Carlson / SRI "NABC" model ...

  • (N) Needs
  • (A) Approach
  • (B) Benefit
  • (C) Competition

3.5 Discussion: strategically, what shall we be doing differently in the next 12 to 36 months

3.6 Discussion: tactically, what shall we be doing differently in the next 6 to 12 months

3.7 Discussion: how shall we get our resources / funding

3.8 Action Plans

3.9 Setting the metrics - what does "success" look like

4. References: most of the content below are inherited from the previous call(s), and will be edited/updated as this meeting progresses ...

  • 4.2 Member activities updates - Review: members and OOR-related activities (2012.07.10) ... (deferred discussion of this item)
    • OOR-sandbox status
    • code repository status
    • NCBO - BioPortal updates
    • NEU - Gatekeeper, ...
    • Raytheon-BBN - federation, ...
    • UToronto - COLORE
    • Bremen - Ontohub
    • Ryerson
    • Mathet
    • SOCoP_INTEROP - SOCoP-OOR
    • DataONE
    • NeOn (KMi and STL)
    • ONKI
    • KBSI
    • MMI
    • Use Cases
    • Architecture
    • API
    • Gatekeeping
    • production OOR instance
    • SIO
    • ICOM / DERI
    • content drive
    • Funding
  • 4.3 Action planning for "content drive" (getting people to upload ontologies) ... (deferred discussion of this item)
    • (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 2011.08.07) ...
      • ref. IAOA Committee and SIG session at FOIS (2012.07.25) discussion:
        • IAOA Ontology Registry and Repository Committee to put focus on contents
        • getting FOIS papers to be submitted with cited ontologies and their metadata, and have those ontologies hosted on OOR
  • 4.5 OOR instances OOR: status update and coordination ... (deferred discussion of this item)
  • OOR: sandbox, devbox, test-instance, socop, colore, ontohub, ornl-daac, mmi-orr, new ncbo-appliance, ... status update and coordination
  • 4.6 Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box ... (deferred discussion of this item)
    • we need a gatekeeping/policy module in place - [KenBaclawski]

5. IM Chat Transcript captured during the session

see raw transcript [ here].

(for better clarity, the version below is a [ re-organized and lightly edited chat-transcript].)

Participants are welcome to make light edits to their own contributions as they see fit.

-- begin in-session chat-transcript --

Peter P. Yim: welcome to the

OpenOntologyRepository: OOR "Strategy and Funding" Discussion Session - Tue 2012_10_30

session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_10_30

Proceedings:

anonymous morphed into Mike Bennett

Peter P. Yim: we had some interesting discussion (revisit that via the audio archive) ... but decided that

we need more people's input and consensus before we should discuss strategy and start tweaking the

direction we are going.

Peter P. Yim: therefore, it is decided that we will postpone the discussion of today's main topic

"OOR Strategy and Funding" (probably more on "Strategy" and less on "Funding" if we don't have

enough time) to the regular OOR monthly team meeting next week.

Peter P. Yim: so be sure to join us on Tue 2012.11.06 for our next monthly OOR Team Meeting and the

"Strategy" discussion. The developing session page for that

will be at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_06

Peter P. Yim: bye

Peter P. Yim: -- session ended: 9:03am PDT --

List of attendees: Mike Bennett, Mike Dean, Peter P. Yim, Todd Schneider,

-- end in-session chat-transcript --

6. (Other) Action items:

  • ...

7. Any Other Business:

  • ...

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meetings:
    • 2012_11_06 - Tuesday: regular monthly OOR Team Meeting
    • 2012_11_08 - Thursday: Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontology-based Standards" mini-series session-2: Sharing Experiences-II: on some related OMG efforts - Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & Eric Chan -
    • ... please mark your calendars and come!
  • Call adjourned at: 9:03 am PDT

--

notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2012.10.30-9:39am PDT

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

Resources

  • 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
    • 2012_07_17 - Tuesday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-3: "Standardisation Coordination and Ontology Repositories" - Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & John Bateman - ConferenceCall_2012_07_17
    • 2012_09_20 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-4: "Common Logic" - Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & John Bateman - ConferenceCall_2012_09_20
  • 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



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