KR Breakout Nov 2004

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Topics for KR Breakout at SEEK AHM

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004 (CENTENNIAL, 6th)

Moderator: Mark Schildhauer

Agenda

• Overview and Update
• Description of current ontologies (Rich)
• GrOWL (Serguei, Rich)
• Annotate-fest
• Example GARP (IPCC) see data and metadata
• Example BioDiversity Dataset see metadata and data
• GUI Design and Issues
• Search interfaces
• Annotation/Semantic registration
• Simple ontology browsing / selection
• Domain-aware ontology interaction
• GrOWL integration into Kepler
• General Discussion
• Incorporating existing ontologies, vocabularies
• What's missing ... how to get to the terms/phrases of scientists ... how to bridge this gap
• Priorities
• Goals

Notes

Mark introduction

• KR Issues:
• KR used by SMS, and SMS sits between EcoGrid and Kepler
• Examine, evaluate, and test anumber of existing ontologies in CVS (R. Williams)
• update on status; evaluate utility; determine where to go from here
• challenges and approaches in creating and visualizing ontologies
• growl -- intended audience, utility, demo
• concept maps -> OWL
• KR in Kepler (interface issues)
• ontology-assisted search; semantic annotation drawing from ontology repository, propagating these annotations; KR assisting SMS in EcoGrid for automated data integration (EML and more)