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KR Breakout Nov 2004

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+ * Mark introduction
+ ** KR Issues:
+ *** KR used by SMS, and SMS sits between EcoGrid and Kepler
+ *** Examine, evaluate, and test a number of existing ontologies in CVS (R. Williams)
+ **** update on status; evaluate utility; determine where to go from here
+ *** challenges and approaches in creating and visualizing ontologies
+ **** growl -- intended audience, utility, demo
+ **** concept maps -> OWL
+ *** KR in Kepler (interface issues)
+ **** ontology-assisted search; semantic annotation drawing from ontology repository, propagating these annotations; KR assisting SMS in EcoGrid for automated data integration (EML and more)
+ *** How ontologies used in kepler
+ **** describe actors
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+ * Rich Williams on Ontologies
+ ** Some developed, some contain place-holders
+ ** Looking at MeasurementBase.owl
+ *** EcoOntThing ... these are items that can have names (hasName)
+ *** basic terminology: Class (concept), Property (attribute, role, slot), Individual (instance), Value (like a string value)
+ *** subclasses of eco ont thing ...
+ **** NamedThing -- those things that have names
+ **** Composites: composed of parts
+ ***** Exclusive part-wholes
+ **** Measurements
+ ***** Units, Dimensions, DerivedUnits, SIUnits
+ ***** Observation
+ ****** item measured, spatial context, temporal context, measurement procedure
+ ***** experiments, observations, observation collections, observation aggregrates
+ ** Ecological Concepts
+ *** Ecological Entities > Abiotic Entities > ... etc.
+ *** Taxonomic groups
+ *** Biodiversity, traits, etc.
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+ * Serguei Krivov
+ ** GrOWL demo ...
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