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SMS_KR_Taxon Developers Meeting May 2005

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+ Venue: [YMCA of the Rockies |http://www.ymcarockies.org/page.php?code=6]\\
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- !!! Agenda
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- !! Sunday, May 1
- * Arrivals from Airport
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- !! Monday, May 2
- * 8:00am __Coffee__
- * 8:30am __Welcome__ (Jones)
- * 9:00am __Overview of meeting goals__ (Jones)
- * 10:00am - 12:00pm __Kepler User Interface Design__
- ** Overview presentation of new Kepler UI (Downey, 1 hr)
- ** Discussion and feedback on Kepler UI design (all, 1 hr)
- * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Taxon__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm
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- !! Tuesday, May 3
- * 8:00am __Coffee__
- * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Taxon__
- * 8:30am - 12:00pm
- * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Taxon__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm
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- !! Wednesday, May 4
- * 8:00am __Coffee__
- * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Taxon__
- * 8:30am - 12:00pm
- * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Taxon__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm
+ !!! Overview
+ This meeting is for the full development group and other related individulas from the SEEK project to focus on design and implementation. There will be no overview, as participants are assumed to be fully familiar with the project. The SEEK developers will meet to discuss 1) design and implementation of semantically-aware services within Kepler, and 2) design and implementation of the SEEK taxon name and concept services. These two groups will meet in parallel sessions. The SMS/KR/Kepler focus is largely centered around the proposed functionality that we wrote up in our SSDBM 2005 submission. Please read that and other SMS background papers before the meeting.
+ * Background reading: [Incorporating Semantics in Scientific Workflow Authoring|http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/kepler-docs/pubs/kepler-SSDBM2005.pdf?rev=1.1&content-type=application/pdf]
+ * Background case study from BEAM/KR/SMS meeting in Davis:
+ **ARC dataset
+ ***[EML: 2000lgcover.xml|http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/seek/projects/beam/biodiversity/data/arc/2000lgcover.xml]
+ ***[Data: 2000lgcover.dat|http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/seek/projects/beam/biodiversity/data/arc/2000lgcover.dat]
+ **GCE dataset
+ ***[EML: PLT-GCED-0409_1_1.xml|http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/seek/projects/beam/biodiversity/data/gce/PLT-GCED-0409.1.1.xml]
+ ***[Data: PLT-GCED-0409_1_1.txt|http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/seek/projects/beam/biodiversity/data/gce/PLT-GCED-0409_1_1.TXT]
+ **Deana's dataset summaries
+ ***Experimental design: [arc_samp_design.PNG]
+ ***Experimental design: [gce_samp_design.PNG]
+ ***Deana's notes: [Summary_data_concepts_Meeeting041105.doc]
+ ***Comparison of datasets: gce_arc_comparison.png (attached; Wiki insists on displaying this inline when I link it)
+ ***Deana's concept map for the formal ontology-challenged: observations.jpg (attached; ditto)
+ **Other relevant docs/files:
+ ***Rich's measurement ontology (attaches to other existing ontologies, but maybe it will be useful to someone by itself: [MeasurementBase.owl|http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/seek/projects/kr-sms/OWLOntologies/MeasurementBase.owl]
+ ***Draft approach to ontologies: [OntologyDesignNotes.doc]
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- !! Thursday, May 5
- * 8:00am Coffee
- * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Kepler Architecture__
- ** Current Architectural Components
- ** The Kepler Object Manager
- ** Repositories (data, actors, onto's, annotations, etc.)
- ** SMS Services
- ** Taxon Services
- ** Towards a "SEEK" archicture
- * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
- * 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- * 4:00pm - 4:30pm __Wrap Up__
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- !! Friday, May 6
- * Travel back to home institutions
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- !!! OLD AGENDA
+ !!! Agenda
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- * 10:00am - 12:00pm __Kepler User Interface Design__
- ** Overview presentation of new Kepler UI (Downey, 1 hr)
+ * 10:00am __Break__
+ * 10:15am - 12:00pm __Kepler User Interface Design__ (Downey)
+ ** Overview presentation of new Kepler UI (Downey, 45 minutes)
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+ *** Tasks and milestones
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- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Taxon__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __KR__
- ** Taking stock
- ** Plan and Discuss:
- *** How to organize current ontologies
- *** Obtaining new ontologies
- *** Curating ontologies
- *** Technologies (existing, needed)
- ** Define use cases for ontology development
+ * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Taxon Application Requirements and Design Priority Process__
+ ** (Attachment below: SEEK Taxon Going Forward.ppt)
+ ** Recapitulation of current status and objectives (Beach)
+ *** Strategic Objectives for SEEK Project Integration
+ *** Near-term Development Priorities for SEEK primary use cases (Concept "Resolution" and Merge Concepts)
+ *** User-centered Analysis and Design for Broader Impacts
+ ** Report of Task Analysis Interview with Dr. Kate Jones, Dr. Brett Riddle (Downey, Franz)
+ ** Break
+ ** Discussion: Assessment of Findings
+ * 1:00pm - 4:00pm __Kepler Architecture__ (Berkley) (__[notes|SMS_KRDevelopersMeetingNotesMay2005]__)
+ ** Overview of Kepler architecture as designed to support new SMS/KR/Grid activities
+ *** Kepler Object Manager
+ *** Kepler KSW archive format
+ *** Local Kepler Repositories (data, actors, onto's, annotations, etc.)
+ ** Discussion and feedback
+ * 4:00pm - 5:00 pm __EcoGrid Storage and Search__ (Jones)
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+ ** Changes needed to EcoGrid to support storing ontologies and annotations and supporting ontology-driven search of actors, workflows, and data
+ * After dinner __Distributed Graduate Seminar__ (Romanello)
+ ** Discussion of running the distributed grad seminar at UNM, UCSB, UC Davis, and KU
+ ** Participants: Romanello, Pennington, Jones, Schildhauer, Ludaescher, Bowers, Beach, others welcome
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- * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Taxon__
- * 8:30am - 12:00pm __KR__
- ** Ontology editing/displaying:
- *** GrOWL
- *** Integration in kepler
- ** Other ontology displays in kepler (per task)
- *** For search / browsing
- *** For explaining results
- *** etc.
- * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Taxon__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __KR__
- ** Develop kepler ontology display/interaction use cases
- ** Set milestones for next six months
+ * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Taxon Usability Analysis and Process, Continued (w/Downey and Pereira)__
+ ** User Centered Design Process
+ *** Identifying users of Concept "relating" services
+ *** Identifying users of Concept "resolution" services
+ *** Analysis and Design process next steps
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+ * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Actor and data classification and browsing__ (Berkley)
+ ** Classification of actors and data into categories, browsing and searching those through Kepler (__[notes|SMS_KRDevelopersMeetingNotesMay2005]__)
+ *** SMS backend services
+ *** User interface mockup
+ *** Ontology needs assessment
+ *** Tasks and milestones
+ ** __Ontology-directed workflow design__ (Berkley) (__[notes|SMS_KRDevelopersMeetingNotesMay2005]__)
+ *** UI changes to allow search and browse of semantically (and structurally) compatible workflow components
+ *** SMS backend services
+ *** User interface mockup
+ *** Ontology needs assessment
+ *** Tasks and milestones
+ * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
+ * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Taxon Updates and Priorities__ (All)
+ ** Accomplishments Addressing SEEK Strategic Objectives
+ ** Broader Impact accomplishments
+ ** Break
+ ** 3-6 month priorities, tasks and milestones
+ ** __Taxon Wrap Up__
+ * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Semantic Annotations in Kepler__ (Bowers) (__[notes|SMS_KRDevelopersMeetingNotesMay2005]__)
+ ** Creating, editing, saving, and publishing annotations for actors, data, workflows
+ *** SMS backend services
+ *** User interface mockup
+ *** Ontology needs assessment
+ *** Tasks and milestones
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- * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Taxon__
- * 8:30am - 12:00pm __SMS__
- ** Existing use cases and status:
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- *** Biodiversity (shawn, mark, bertram)
- *** Niche modeling (deana)
- ** Tools and applications (SMS, GIS, SCIA, ...)
- * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Taxon__
- * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __SMS__
- ** Needed SMS graphical interfaces in kepler
- *** For annotation, search, integration, answer explanation, etc.
- ** Set milestones for next six months
+ * 8:30am - 10:00am __Semantic workflow validation__ (Bowers) (__[notes|SMS_KRDevelopersMeetingNotesMay2005]__)
+ ** Running a semantic consistency check on all workflow components and data flows, providing visual indication of semantic validity for links (preferably during workflow authoring)
+ *** SMS backend services
+ *** User interface mockup
+ *** Ontology needs assessment
+ *** Tasks and milestones
+ * 10:00am __Break__
+ * 10:15am - 12:00am __Ontologies__ (Schildhauer) (__[notes|SMS_KRDevelopersMeetingNotesMay2005]__)
+ ** Overview of ontologies, how they work together, what's missing and needed
+ *** ontologies covering ENM and Biodiversity case study data and actors specifically
+ *** Ontology needs assessment
+ *** Tasks and milestones
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+ * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
+ * 1:00pm - 5:00pm __Semi-automated data integration__ (Jones) (__[notes|SMS_KRDevelopersMeetingNotesMay2005]__)
+ ** Data integration (merging), use cases identified in beam biodiversity meeting
+ *** Concatenate two or more data sets that are semantically and structurally compatible
+ *** Join two or more data sets that are semantically and structurally compatible
+ *** Concatenate two or more data sets that are semantically but not structurally compatible
+ *** Join two or more data sets that are semantically but not structurally compatible
+ *** SMS backend services
+ *** User interface mockup
+ *** Ontology needs assessment
+ *** Tasks and milestones
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- * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Kepler Architecture__
- ** Current Architectural Components
- ** The Kepler Object Manager
- ** Repositories (data, actors, onto's, annotations, etc.)
- ** SMS Services
- ** Taxon Services
- ** Towards a "SEEK" archicture
- * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
- * 1:00pm - 4:00pm __KR/SMS and Taxon__
- ** Identify similar functionality that could be "shared"
- ** Identify connections between services (e.g., for search, etc.)
- ** Define a plan for collaboration
- *** Select one or two particular use cases (biodiversity?)
- *** Identify who will work together
- *** Identify a basic timeline
+ * 8:30am - 12:00pm __Semi-automated workflow composition__ (Bowers) (__[notes|SMS_KRDevelopersMeetingNotesMay2005]__)
+ ** Semantically-derived transformation steps (i.e., locating and inserting one or more actors into a wf to allow two semantically compatible actors to be connected structurally)
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+ *** SMS backend services
+ *** User interface mockup
+ *** Ontology needs assessment
+ *** Tasks and milestones
+ * 12:00pm - 1:00pm __Lunch__
+ * 1:00pm - 4:00pm __Ontology formality and user interfaces for targeted users__ (Downey)
+ ** Complexity of presenting formal ontologies to our target users
+ *** Does the 'tree' representation work for our formalized ontologies
+ *** Can our users really be expected to assimilate the formal model presented by our ontologies
+ *** Can Growl, and specifically graphical extensions, help here?
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- * Is this day to be used, or is it a travel day? Probably travel...
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- !!! Guests
+ * Travel back to home institutions
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- jones/schildhauer/berkley/higgins/tao/williams?\\
+ jones/schildhauer/berkley/higgins/tao/williams?/brooke?/harris?\\
+ villa/krivov\\
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- beach/stewart/gales/gauch?/peet/kennedy/liu/franz/downey\\
+ beach/stewart/gales/gauch/peet/kennedy/liu/franz/downey/pereira\\
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+ !!! Comments on the agenda
+ Please insert any comments on the agenda here for consideration and possible revision of the schedule
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+ ! Commenter name
+ * Comment goes here

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