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KR Meeting Jan 06

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- !!! Meeting Notes
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+ !!! 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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- * 8:30
- * 12:00 Lunch
+ * 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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- * 8:30
- * 12:00 Lunch
+ * More on observation ontology; focus on units, dimensions, traits, measurements, etc.
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- !!! Participants (not yet a complete list -- still drafting it)
+ !!! Links
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+ * UCD (Uniform Content Descriptors) [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/doc/UCD/inVizieR.htx]
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+ !!! Participants
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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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