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| - [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/meetings/all-hands-20021113/index.html] |
| + November 13-16, 2002 |
| + Spencer Research Library |
| + University of Kansas |
| + Lawrence, Kansas |
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| + *[Background Information and Links|SEEKAllHandsMeeting20021113#Background] |
| + *[Participants|SEEKAllHandsMeeting20021113#Participants] |
| + |
| + !!Meeting schedule: |
| + |
| + |__Wednesday November 13__|| |
| + |evening |Arrive Wednesday afternoon/evening at MCI, drive/shuttle to Lawrence (1 hour)| |
| + |7:00 pm |Early bird, informal dinner @ Tellers Restaurant, Massachusetts Street and 8th| |
| + |__Thursday November 14__|| |
| + |7:45 am |Coffee and continental breakfast, Spencer Research Library | |
| + |8:00 |Welcome |Beach; Krishtalka; Research Librarian |
| + | |Introductions | |
| + | |Overview of SEEK vision from a community perspective |Michener |
| + | |Summary of proposed SEEK activities and architecture |Jones |
| + |10:00 |Break | |
| + |10:30 |Presentations (12 x 5 minutes each) on relevance of existing projects to SEEK development. Limit 5 slides/ 5 minutes + couple minutes discussion | |
| + | |The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) |Jones |
| + | |Xanthoria/ClimDB |McCartney |
| + | |Ontology-Based Classification |Gauch |
| + | |Storage Resource Broker: A Brief Introduction |Rajasekar |
| + | |Semantic Mediation and Scientific Workflows |Ludaescher |
| + | |Integrating modelling architecture: ontologies for cross-scale, cross-paradigm natural system modelling |Villa |
| + | |The Prometheus approach to multiple classifications |Kennedy |
| + | |Spatiotemporal Extrapolation of Ecological Knowledge |Pennington |
| + | |LTER Informatics Activities |Brunt |
| + | |The VegBank taxonomic data model |Peet |
| + | |Access to Distributed Collections |Vieglais |
| + | |Massive ecological data analysis and visualization |Stockwell |
| + | |Modeling Complex Biodiversity Phenomena Using Informatics Tools |Peterson |
| + |12:20 |Meeting Structure and Objectives |Michener |
| + |12:30 |Lunch in building, 20-minute tour of natural history library | |
| + |2:00 |Breakout groups (2.5 hours meeting, 1/2 hour break at 3:30 pm, 10 minute report, 20 minute discussion) | |
| + | |EcoGrid\\ -Identify existing data network efforts to consider for interoperation\\ -Identify actual target networks for this project\\ -Candidate functionality/features with milestones/timelines\\ -Identify other relevant grid activities\\-Discussion of architectural approaches\\-User interfaces\\-Desired roles/participation\\-Identify possible people for membership/participation\\-How to best leverage efforts in community?\\-Personnel & hiring|Rajasekar |
| + | |Biodiversity and Ecological Analysis and Modeling WG \\-End user groups, driver users \\-Prototype hi-visibility questions; building blocks biodiversity and ecology dynamics \\-How to best link with BEAM, and other 2 WGs \\-Data discovery/availability \\-Identify information & data needs \\-Identify leveraging groups (eg LIDET, TRAGNET) \\-Identify possible people for membership/participation \\-Personnel & hiring| Michener |
| + |6:00 |Reception and dinner in building | |
| + |__Friday November 15__|| |
| + |7:45 am |Coffee and continental breakfast, Spencer Research Library | |
| + |8:30 |Breakout groups (2.5 hours meeting, 1/2 hour break at 10:00 am, 10 minute report, 20 minute discussion) | |
| + | |Semantic Mediation System \\-Identify existing ontologies/terminologies\\---How used today by community, availability (book, CD?) \\-High-level scenarios/use cases for semantic mediation \\-Candidate functionality/features with milestones/timelines \\-What role does SM play in dynamic integration and discovery of data? (when integrated view not put together ahead of time) \\-What infrastructure needed to assist KR/Ontology WG? \\-Identify possible people for membership/participation \\-How to best leverage efforts in community? \\-Personnel & hiring| Ludaescher |
| + | |Taxonomy WG \\-Identify existing projects & models for concept-based taxon \\-Identify requirements for classification data architecture \\-Consider alternatives to concept-based taxon? \\---Do concept-based taxonomies actually solve a problem? \\-How can classification architecture contribute to A&M & Ecogrid \\-Shoud we accommodate P-code & alternate naming systems, and if so, how? \\-End-user tools to manipulate classification trees \\-Discuss overlap with SM \\-How to populate such an ambitious DB \\-Identify possible people for membership/participation \\-How to best leverage efforts in community? \\-Personnel & hiring| Beach |
| + |12:30 |Lunch in building | |
| + |2:00 - 5:30 |Breakout groups (2 hours meeting, 1/2 hour break at 3:30 pm, 10 minute report, 20 minute discussion) | |
| + | |Analysis and Modeling System \\-Identify existing systems that are relevant (e.g., Ptolemy, Pipeline Pilot) \\-High-level scenarios/use cases for semantic mediation \\-Candidate functionality/features with milestones/timelines \\-What infrastructure is required for DAM WG \\-User interfaces \\-Identify possible people for membership/participation \\-How to best leverage efforts in community? \\-Personnel & hiring| Jones |
| + | |Knowledge Representation WG \\-What will useful ontologies be for A&M and SEEK in general \\-Identify existing controlled vocabularies that can be leveraged \\-To what extent can ontology generation be automated? \\-Level of formalism and expressiveness needed for SM \\-End-user tools to develop & modify ontologies \\-End-user tools to expose ontologies to domain scientist \\-Tools/metrics for relevance \\-Prioritize products and milestones (deliver ontology to SM) \\-Identify possible people for membership/participation \\-How to best leverage efforts in community? \\-Personnel & hiring| Schildhauer |
| + |6:00 |Group dinner at local microbrewery | |
| + |__Saturday November 16__|| |
| + |7:45 am |Coffee and continental breakfast, Spencer Research Library | |
| + |8:30 |Discussion of overall SEEK vision/plan; unresolved issues; collaboration techniques and tools; exposing SEEK to broader community | |
| + |11:30 |Meeting adjourns | |
| + |12:30 |Lunch on your own, or depart Lawrence after 12:30. Need to leave Lawrence 2 hours before flight. United, USAir, AmerWest, Southwest (MCI) | |
| + |
| + !!Participants |
| + |James Beach |KUNHM |
| + |Chad Berkley |NCEAS |
| + |Matthew Brooke |NCEAS |
| + |James Brunt |UNM |
| + |Scott Downie |KUNHM |
| + |Susan Gauch |KU EECS |
| + |John Harris |NCEAS |
| + |Dan Higgins |NCEAS |
| + |Chris Jones |UCSB |
| + |Matt Jones |NCEAS |
| + |Jesse Kennedy Napier Univ. |
| + |Meg Kumin |KUNHM |
| + |Bertram Ludaescher |SDSC |
| + |Peter McCartney |Arizona |
| + |William Michener |UNM |
| + |Tim Noble |KUNHM |
| + |Robert Peet |UNC |
| + |Deanna Pennington |UNM |
| + |Town Peterson |KUNHM |
| + |Arcot Rajaseka |SDSC |
| + |Mark Schildhauer |NCEAS |
| + |Aimee Stewart |KUNHM |
| + |David Stockwell |SDSC |
| + |Jing Tao |NCEAS |
| + |Paul Tooby |SDSC |
| + |Kristin Vanderbilt |UNM |
| + |Dave Vieglais |KUNHM |
| + |Ferdinando Villa |Univ. of Vermont |
| + |Greg Vorontsov |KUNHM |
| + |Robert Waide |UNM |
| + |Rich Williams |NCEAS |
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| + !!Background |
| + !General |
| + *[SEEKProjectProposal] |
| + !Scientific Workflow, Analysis, Computational Grids |
| + *[Monarch|http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/monarch/] |
| + *[Ptolemy|http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/] |
| + *[Pipeline Pilot|http://www.scitegic.com/] |
| + *[Khoros|http://www.khoros.com/] |
| + *[Globus|http://www.globus.org/] |
| + !Semantic Mediation |
| + *[Knowledge-Based Integration of Neuroscience Data (KIND)|http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/Neuro/] |
| + *[DAML+OIL|http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil-index.html] |
| + *[W3C Web Ontology / OWL|http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/] |
| + *[W3C Semantic Web|http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/] |
| + !Data Networks |
| + *[Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity|http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/] |
| + *[Species Analyst|http://www.speciesanalyst.net/zportal/tsasimple.asp] |
| + *[DGIR|http://digir.sourceforge.net/] |
| + *[Storage Resource Broker|http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/index.html] |
| + *[NEES Grid|http://www.neesgrid.org/] |
| + *[Xanthoria|http://ces.asu.edu/bdi/Subjects/Xanthoria/] |
| + !Taxonomy and Nomenclature |
| + *[Prometheus|http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/%7Eprometheus/prometheus_2/prometheusII.html] |
| + *[VegBank|http://www.vegbank.org/] |
| + *[FGDC Biological Nomenclature and Taxonomy Data Standard|http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/sub5_8.html] |
| + *[Biodiversity Information Organization using Taxonomy|http://www.ittc.ku.edu/BIOT/] |
| + !Knowledge Representation |
| + *[CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project|http://ceres.ca.gov/thesaurus/] |
