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| - ! First SEEK KR Meeting |
| + !!! Logistics |
| + Where: San Antonio, Texas\\ |
| + Hotel: [La Mansion del Rio Hotel|http://www.lamansion.com/index.php]\\ |
| + When: Jan. 23-26, 2006\\ |
| + Reimbursements: [http://lternet-183.lternet.edu/doc_archive/forms/] |
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| - !! Overview |
| + The meeting will begin promptly at 8:00 am in the El Conde/La Condessa Meeting Room located on the 3rd floor of the hotel. |
| + The hotel does not provide shuttle service from San Antonio International Airport to La Mansion del Rio Hotel. You may book SATrans shuttle [http://www.saairportshuttle.com/] or take a cab. SATrans is $14 one way, $24 round trip. A cab is $18-$20 one way. |
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| - !! Agenda |
| + !!! Agenda items |
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| + 1. Observation ontology (ObsOnt) – Tuesday |
| + * Objective: to provide a rigorous framework for annotating ecological data with sufficient resolution for data merging and suggesting potential statistical analysis. |
| + * Three sub-model framework (critical evaluation): |
| + * 1. Observation |
| + ** Spatial component |
| + ** Temporal component |
| + ** Material component |
| + ** How should taxonomy be integrated? (add a provisional component) |
| + * 2. Abstraction |
| + ** Value |
| + ** Units |
| + * 3. Context |
| + ** Association |
| + ** Mereology |
| + ** OLAP? |
| + * Agree upon basic OO framework before end of meeting |
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| - !! ... |
| + 2. Textbook parsing project (PP) – Wednesday afternoon |
| + * Objective: to generate an objective graph of relationship among ecological concept (including observation). To be used as a comparative model to aid in ontology building. |
| + * Begon et al project |
| + ** Show various analysis done so far |
| + ** Ideas for interesting future analyses |
| + * Wikipedia project |
| + * Developing a glossary (set of terms defined in natural language, including synonyms) |
| + * Controlled vocabulary (list of agreed-upon terms) |
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| + 3. Publications – Thursday afternoon |
| + * Objective: to disseminate what we done so far, focusing on ecological aspects of ontology building. |
| + ** Come up with three (partially overlapping) ideas for papers and divide among participants. |
| + * Potential journals: |
| + ** Ecological Applications, Bioscience (others): Ontology guide for ecologists. |
| + ** TREE: brief overview of the important role ontologies will play in ecological research (Use boxes for definitions and examples) |
| + ** Ecol. Lett.: a more detailed review of the constructs that ecologists use subconsciously. |
| + ** Computer Science Journals(?): More technical details of ecological constructs using description logic |
| + ** Ontology Journals(?): Comparison and elaboration of an ecological ontology with other types of ontologies; pros, cons and difficulties. |
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| + 4. Bibliography – Throughout meeting |
| + * Objective: to build a bibliography of must-read items current and fundamental to ontologies, and a brief description of why they are important. |
| + ** The bibliography will form the basis for published literature reviews (above). |
| + ** Also helps define our view-points/who we agree with as far as ontology building |
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| + 5. Technology surrounding Ontologies (in Kepler) |
| + * What functionality do we need? |
| + ** External ontologies / ontology repository |
| + ** Uploading |
| + ** Editing |
| + ** Naming Conventions |
| + ** Organizing Ontologies (file based? clusters?) |
| + ** Versioning |
| + ** Navigation/access/searching/interacting ontologies |
| + * How to "publish" ontologies |
| + * Annotation mechanisms and grain (dataset, attribute or cell level) |
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| + 6. Units ontology |
| + * Objective: Evaluate how to approach unit identification and conversion; extending derived units; relating units ontology to material ontology; how to add new units |
| + ** Unit.xml in EML and STMML approaches relative to OWL |
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| + 7. Statistical ontology |
| + * Potential statistical analysis inferred from OO |
| + * Linkage to actors |
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| + 8. Spatial-Temporal Ontology |
| + * Discuss |
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| + 9. Ecological concepts ontology |
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| + 10. Community effort |
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| + 11. Actor ontology and Kepler customization |
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| + 12. Taxonomy |
| + * Possible to use OWL for taxonomies? |
| + * How to use taxonomies in Kepler? |
| + * Define some of the most compelling use cases... |
| + * Review of Dave's work |
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| + !!! Meeting Notes |
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| + !! Monday, January 22rd |
| + * Arrivals |
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| + !! Tuesday, January 23rd |
| + * 8:00 am Coffee/Breakfast |
| + * 9:00 - 11:00 Fleshed out agenda items |
| + * 11:15 - ... Josh on observation ontology |
| + ** Some [notes | KRMeetingJan06Notes] |
| + ** More work on basic observation ontology |
| + ** See [draft|http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/seek/projects/kr-sms/kr/ontologies/drafts/KRMeetingJan06/Observation.owl] |
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| + !! Wednesday, January 24th |
| + * 8:00 Coffee/Breakfast |
| + * More on observation ontology; focus on units, dimensions, traits, measurements, etc. |
| + |
| + !! Thursday, January 26th |
| + * 8:00 am Coffee/Breakfast |
| + * 8:30 |
| + * 12:00 Lunch |
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| + !! Friday, January 27th |
| + * 8:00 Coffee/Breakfast |
| + * 8:30 |
| + * 12:00 Meeting Ends |
| + * Departures |
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| + !!! Links |
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| + * UCD (Uniform Content Descriptors) [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/doc/UCD/inVizieR.htx] |
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| + !!! Participants |
| + * Shawn Bowers |
| + * Serguei Krivov |
| + * Josh Madin |
| + * Deana Pennington |
| + * Mark Schildhauer |
| + * Ferdinando Villa |
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| + !!! Meeting Summary |
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| + Go here for a summary of the meeting and task deligation. |
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