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| + November 13-16, 2002 |
| + Spencer Research Library |
| + University of Kansas |
| + Lawrence, Kansas |
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| + Background Information and Links. Participants |
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| + Meeting schedule: |
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| + 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 |
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| + 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) |
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