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== Agenda ==
== Agenda ==
* '''Yolanda Gil''' ''Ontologies for Exploring Interventions for Disaster Preparation and Response'' [https://bit.ly/3M1CJcO Slides] [https://bit.ly/3L4BCbc Video Recording] [https://youtu.be/Umjtt2RxG64 YouTube Video]
* Synthesis
* Preparing and responding to natural disasters requires integrated models of natural processes and human activities across disparate disciplines.  It typically takes many months and even years create valid end-to-end simulations as the different models need to be configured in consistent ways so their results can be meaningfully interpreted. MINT is a novel framework that uses AI for model integration.  MINT uses ontologies to represent modeling variables unambiguously in order to facilitate model integration, to capture model requirements and constraints in order to validate the use of models, and to connect models to scenarios and interventions in order to make them directly relevant to decision makers.  We will illustrate the use of ontologies in MINT to study the impacts of climate extremes such as droughts and floods in food insecurity and migration in Sub-Saharan Africa, to set up controlled fires for wildfire prevention, and to facilitate the creation of rapid disaster response systems.
** '''Dr Ravi Sharma''' - ''Earth Observations to monitor disasters - sensors, platforms, image-data and metadata'' (15-20 minutes) [https://bit.ly/3OR533D Slides] [https://bit.ly/3OYgBln Video Recording] [https://youtu.be/WYECpASn6IA YouTube Video]
* '''Dr. Yolanda Gil''' is Principal Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, Director of New Initiatives in AI and Data Science in the Viterbi School of Engineering, and Research Professor in Computer Science and in Spatial Sciences. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Gil collaborates with scientists in many domains on semantic workflows and metadata capture, social knowledge collection, computer-mediated collaboration, and automated discovery.  In 2019 she co-chaired the CRA/AAAI 20-Year Artificial Intelligence Research Roadmap for the US with key strategic recommendations based on extensive community contributions.  She initiated and led the W3C Provenance Group that led to a widely-used standard that provides the foundations for trust on the Web. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is also Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and served as its 24th President.
** Synthesis of the Environmental Disaster Track. [https://bit.ly/3OZrBza Draft Synthesis] [https://bit.ly/3w775Uq Video Recording]


== Conference Call Information ==
== Conference Call Information ==
* Date: '''Wednesday, 11 May 2022'''  
* Date: '''Wednesday, 04 May 2022'''  
* Start Time: 9:00am PDT / 12:00pm EDT / 6:00pm CEST / 5:00pm BST / 1600 UTC
* Start Time: 9:00am PDT / 12:00pm EDT / 6:00pm CEST / 5:00pm BST / 1600 UTC
** ref: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=05&day=11&year=2022&hour=12&min=00&sec=0&p1=179 World Clock]  
** ref: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=05&day=04&year=2022&hour=12&min=00&sec=0&p1=179 World Clock]  
* Expected Call Duration: 1 hour
* Expected Call Duration: 1 hour
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== Attendees ==
== Attendees ==
* [[AlexShkotin|Alex Shkotin]]
* [[AndrewDougherty|Andrew Dougherty]]
* [[AndrewDougherty|Andrew Dougherty]]
* [[DougHolmes|Doug Holmes]]
* [[GaryBergCross|Gary Berg-Cross]]
* [[GaryBergCross|Gary Berg-Cross]]
* [[GeorgeHurlburt|George Hurlburt]]
* [[JanetSinger|Janet Singer]]
* [[JanetSinger|Janet Singer]]
* [[KenBaclawski|Ken Baclawski]]
* [[KenBaclawski|Ken Baclawski]]
* Meghan KS
* [[MarciaZeng|Marcia Zeng]]
* [[MikeBennett|Mike Bennett]]
* [[MichaelSinger|Michael Singer]]
* [[NancyWiegand|Nancy Wiegand]]
* [[NathanFilbert|Nathan Filbert]]
* [[RamSriram|Ram D. Sriram]]
* [[RamSriram|Ram D. Sriram]]
* [[RaviSharma|Ravi Sharma]]
* [[RaviSharma|Ravi Sharma]]
* [[RobertRovetto|Robert Rovetto]]
* [[RobertRovetto|Robert Rovetto]]
* [[YolandaGil|Yolanda Gil]]


== Discussion ==
== Discussion ==
[11:20] Ravi Sharma: Welcome everyone
[11:32] Ravi Sharma: Welcome everyone to this track 3 synthesis session.


[12:14] Ravi Sharma: Does Hydrology model include weather forecast and also real time measurements of weather?
[12:41] Gary Berg-Cross: For the synthesis an issue I had with Dave Jones and Karen Moe's (ESIP) presentation is that it shows how far from semantics many trusted data efforts are.
More specifically How do we enhance semantics of the ORLs they talked about? What is Metadata completeness that people filled out?  It means what?
Also in their presentation it is unclear what automated intelligence means.


[12:26] Ravi Sharma: What about weather forecast integration
[12:46] Gary Berg-Cross: Jones and Moe their presentations all provide an organizational view of data and operation on disasters. It may remain  a challenge to get some knowledge-level processes, such as data harmonization, engaged in these organizations and their activities.


[12:26] Ravi Sharma: A lot depends on soil types and so how would SPI compare or differ?
[12:48] Gary Berg-Cross: In Jano presentation "Can We Make Useful Data Re-usable?" we get a bit more semantics thru KnowWhereGraphs and the geoEnrichment approach.
* We hear a bit more about the power of environmental intelligence applications
* We hear about Issue With Portals which just reach isolated data sets.


[12:36] Ravi Sharma: Intervention specification will only affect fertilizer used and so is not useful?
[12:52] Gary Berg-Cross: A key point about KGs from Jano is that we are still in the early stages of this work - we know almost nothing about them and the associated Knowledge Graph Ecosystem.


[12:42] Ravi Sharma: What is the benefit of backcasting?
[12:52] Gary Berg-Cross: Jano's work also goes beyond classical KR to include ML embeddings.


[12:47] Ravi Sharma: Are you able to quantify uncertainty?
[12:56] Gary Berg-Cross: The weAdapt effort falls between the Portal efforts and Jano's KG their Connectivity Hubis designed to link people with the gross knowledge they need.  It is  better than a simple portal it has some taxonomy.


[12:54] Mike Bennett: How does the AI deal with the semantics of concepts in the ontologies?
[12:56] Gary Berg-Cross: weADAPT uses keyword tagging technology to link related content together and make it easier to explore and discover content.
Using a shared, well-described taxonomy to annotate content on websites is a key step for realizing Linked Data.


[12:55] Ravi Sharma: Janet asked questions about models and AI.
[12:57] Gary Berg-Cross: Some background on weAdapt taxonomy at https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/climate-knowledge-brokers/transforming-knowledge-management-for-climate-action


[13:10] Nathan Filbert: Greetings - will these slides and recordings be available to review (references as well)? Id like to be added to some list for resources - nathan.filbert@wichita.edu. This is extremely helpful to us as we develop a Central Plains disaster resilience center - https://www.wichita.edu/research/drac/index.php. Would love to work with others
[12:59] Gary Berg-Cross: Jano makes several points we can leverage of going Beyond Portals to what KGs provide:
* We don't serve links to datasets; we serve every single data record in these datasets in a searchable and AI-ready way.
* We don't provide yet another region (e.g., county) specific portal; we serve data across many different types of region identifiers.
* We don't make you download, overlay, and analyze different datasets on various topics relevant to your information needs; we answer your questions directly and based on pre-integrated data.  
* We don't go online with the next technology change, e.g., Flash, Silverlight; we rely on a distributed, internationally standardized open-source technology paradigm.


[13:14] Ken Baclawski: @Nathan Filbert: The slides today are already posted on the meeting page.  The video recording will be posted later today.  Other links will be posted when they are available.
[13:00] Gary Berg-Cross: Also for our communique Jano includes Key Research Questions we might discuss:
 
# Spatiotemporally explicit KG embeddings that are invariant under syntactic changes
[13:15] Nathan Filbert: Excellent - thank you all so much!
# How to Learn geographic knowledge graph summaries for apportioned geoenrichment
# Quantifying and representing regional differences in the conceptualization of geographic space
# How to detect and mitigate bias in geographic knowledge graphs


== Resources ==
== Resources ==
* [https://bit.ly/3M1CJcO Slides]  
* Earth Observations to monitor disasters - sensors, platforms, image-data and metadata
* [https://bit.ly/3L4BCbc Video Recording]
** [https://bit.ly/3OR533D Slides]
* [https://youtu.be/Umjtt2RxG64 YouTube Video]
** [https://bit.ly/3OYgBln Video Recording]
* Other talks by '''Yolanda Gil'''
** [https://youtu.be/WYECpASn6IA YouTube Video]
** [https://bit.ly/3FLWH8Y ''Reasoning about Scientific Knowledge with Workflow Constraints: Towards Automated Discovery from Data Repositories''] at the Ontology Summit 2017
* Draft Synthesis of the Environmental Disaster Track
*** [https://bit.ly/3PhPqCr Slides]
** [https://bit.ly/3OZrBza Slides]
*** [https://bit.ly/3FQNpbZ Session Page]
** [https://bit.ly/3w775Uq Video Recording]
*** [https://bit.ly/3wr6E7R Video Recording of the session]
** [http://bit.ly/2tS5B4r ''Seven Ontologies for Publishing the Scientific Record on the Web''] at the Ontology Summit 2020
*** [https://go.aws/2yHUuO4 Sides]
*** [https://go.aws/3er62Em Video Recording]


== Previous Meetings ==
== Previous Meetings ==
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== Next Meetings ==
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Latest revision as of 18:25, 16 December 2022

Session Synthesis
Duration 1 hour
Date/Time 04 May 2022 16:00 GMT
9:00am PDT/12:00pm EDT
5:00pm BST/6:00pm CEST
Convener Ravi Sharma
Track Environment Disasters

Ontology Summit 2022 Synthesis

Dealing with Disasters

The COVID-19 pandemic as well as other pandemics and disasters have prompted an impressive, worldwide response by governments, industry, and the academic community. Ontologies can play a significant role in search, data description, interoperability and harmonization of the increasingly large data sources that are relevant to disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ontology Summit 2022 examined the overall landscape of disasters and related ontologies. A framework consisting of a set of dimensions was developed to characterize this landscape. The framework was applied to health-related disasters, environmental disasters, as well as aerospace and cyberspace disasters. It was found that there are many cross-domain linkages between different kinds of disasters and that ontologies developed for one kind of disaster can be repurposed for other kinds. A representative sample of projects that have been developing and using ontologies for disaster monitoring and response management is presented to illustrate best practices and lessons learned. The Communiqué ends by presenting the findings and recommendations of the summit.

Agenda

Conference Call Information

  • Date: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
  • Start Time: 9:00am PDT / 12:00pm EDT / 6:00pm CEST / 5:00pm BST / 1600 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: 1 hour
  • The Video Conference URL is https://bit.ly/3rTKSGQ
    • Meeting ID: 881 4427 2329
    • Passcode: 553714
  • Chat Room: https://bit.ly/37g93pC
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Attendees

Discussion

[11:32] Ravi Sharma: Welcome everyone to this track 3 synthesis session.

[12:41] Gary Berg-Cross: For the synthesis an issue I had with Dave Jones and Karen Moe's (ESIP) presentation is that it shows how far from semantics many trusted data efforts are. More specifically How do we enhance semantics of the ORLs they talked about? What is Metadata completeness that people filled out? It means what? Also in their presentation it is unclear what automated intelligence means.

[12:46] Gary Berg-Cross: Jones and Moe their presentations all provide an organizational view of data and operation on disasters. It may remain a challenge to get some knowledge-level processes, such as data harmonization, engaged in these organizations and their activities.

[12:48] Gary Berg-Cross: In Jano presentation "Can We Make Useful Data Re-usable?" we get a bit more semantics thru KnowWhereGraphs and the geoEnrichment approach.

  • We hear a bit more about the power of environmental intelligence applications
  • We hear about Issue With Portals which just reach isolated data sets.

[12:52] Gary Berg-Cross: A key point about KGs from Jano is that we are still in the early stages of this work - we know almost nothing about them and the associated Knowledge Graph Ecosystem.

[12:52] Gary Berg-Cross: Jano's work also goes beyond classical KR to include ML embeddings.

[12:56] Gary Berg-Cross: The weAdapt effort falls between the Portal efforts and Jano's KG their Connectivity Hubis designed to link people with the gross knowledge they need. It is better than a simple portal it has some taxonomy.

[12:56] Gary Berg-Cross: weADAPT uses keyword tagging technology to link related content together and make it easier to explore and discover content. Using a shared, well-described taxonomy to annotate content on websites is a key step for realizing Linked Data.

[12:57] Gary Berg-Cross: Some background on weAdapt taxonomy at https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/climate-knowledge-brokers/transforming-knowledge-management-for-climate-action

[12:59] Gary Berg-Cross: Jano makes several points we can leverage of going Beyond Portals to what KGs provide:

  • We don't serve links to datasets; we serve every single data record in these datasets in a searchable and AI-ready way.
  • We don't provide yet another region (e.g., county) specific portal; we serve data across many different types of region identifiers.
  • We don't make you download, overlay, and analyze different datasets on various topics relevant to your information needs; we answer your questions directly and based on pre-integrated data.
  • We don't go online with the next technology change, e.g., Flash, Silverlight; we rely on a distributed, internationally standardized open-source technology paradigm.

[13:00] Gary Berg-Cross: Also for our communique Jano includes Key Research Questions we might discuss:

  1. Spatiotemporally explicit KG embeddings that are invariant under syntactic changes
  2. How to Learn geographic knowledge graph summaries for apportioned geoenrichment
  3. Quantifying and representing regional differences in the conceptualization of geographic space
  4. How to detect and mitigate bias in geographic knowledge graphs

Resources

Previous Meetings

 Session
ConferenceCall 2022 04 27Knowledge in Climate Research
ConferenceCall 2022 04 20Personal Emergency Management
ConferenceCall 2022 04 13KGs and Disaster Mitigation
... further results

Next Meetings

 Session
ConferenceCall 2022 05 11Ontologies for Exploring Interventions
ConferenceCall 2022 05 18Space Environment - Disasters
ConferenceCall 2022 05 25Space Hazards and Ontologies
... further results