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KR Meeting Jan 06

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- * Observation ontology
- * Textbook parsing project
- * Publications
- * Bibliography
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- 1. Observation ontology (OO) – Tuesday
- * Objective: to provide a rigorous framework for annotating ecological data with sufficient resolution for data merging and suggesting statistical analysis.
+ 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.
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- ** How should taxonomy be integrated?
+ ** How should taxonomy be integrated? (add a provisional component)
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- ** Agree upon basic OO framework before end of meeting
+ * Agree upon basic OO framework before end of meeting
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- 2. Textbook parsing project (PP) – Wednesday afternoon
+ 2. Textbook parsing project (PP) – Wednesday afternoon
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+ * Begon et al project
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+ * 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
+ 3. Publications – Thursday afternoon
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- ** Potential journals:
- ** TREE: brief overview of the important role ontologies will play in ecological research
+ * 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)
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- 4. Bibliography – Throughout meeting
+ 4. Bibliography – Throughout meeting
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- !!! Meeting Notes
+ 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
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+ * More on observation ontology; focus on units, dimensions, traits, measurements, etc.
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- * ...
+ * UCD (Uniform Content Descriptors) [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/doc/UCD/inVizieR.htx]
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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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