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Where: San Antonio, Texas
Hotel: La Mansion del Rio Hotel
When: Jan. 23-26, 2006
Reimbursements: http://lternet-183.lternet.edu/doc_archive/forms/
The meeting will begin promptly at 8:00 am in the El Conde/La Condessa Meeting Room located on the 3rd floor of the hotel.
The hotel does not provide shuttle service from San Antonio International Airport to La Mansion del Rio Hotel. You may book SATrans shuttle http://www.saairportshuttle.com/ or take a cab. SATrans is $14 one way, $24 round trip. A cab is $18-$20 one way.
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.
- Three sub-model framework (critical evaluation):
- 1. Observation
- Spatial component
- Temporal component
- Material component
- How should taxonomy be integrated?
- 2. Abstraction
- 3. Context
- Association
- Mereology
- OLAP?
- Agree upon basic OO framework before end of meeting
2. Textbook parsing project (PP) – Wednesday afternoon
- Objective: to generate an objective graph of relationship among ecological concept (including observation). To be used as a comparative model to aid in ontology building.
- Show various analysis done so far
- Ideas for interesting future analyses
3. Publications – Thursday afternoon
- Objective: to disseminate what we done so far, focusing on ecological aspects of ontology building.
- Come up with three (partially overlapping) ideas for papers and divide among participants.
- Potential journals:
- TREE: brief overview of the important role ontologies will play in ecological research
- Ecol. Lett.: a more detailed review of the constructs that ecologists use subconsciously.
- Computer Science Journals(?): More technical details of ecological constructs using description logic
- Ontology Journals(?): Comparison and elaboration of an ecological ontology with other types of ontologies; pros, cons and difficulties.
4. Bibliography – Throughout meeting
- Objective: to build a bibliography of must-read items current and fundamental to ontologies, and a brief description of why they are important.
- The bibliography will form the basis for published literature reviews (above).
- Also helps define our view-points/who we agree with as far as ontology building
5. Technology surrounding Ontologies (in Kepler)
- What functionality do we need?
- External ontologies / ontology repository
- Uploading
- Editing
- Naming Conventions
- Organizing Ontologies (file based? clusters?)
- 8:00 am Coffee/Breakfast
- 8:30
- 12:00 Lunch
- 8:00 Coffee/Breakfast
- 8:30
- 12:00 Lunch
- 8:00 am Coffee/Breakfast
- 8:30
- 12:00 Lunch
- 8:00 Coffee/Breakfast
- 8:30
- 12:00 Meeting Ends
- Departures
- Shawn Bowers
- Serguei Krivov
- Josh Madin
- Deana Pennington
- Mark Schildhauer
- Ferdinando Villa
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