KR Meeting July 06

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Logistics

The meeting will begin promptly at 8:00 am in the 2nd floor conference room at NCEAS in the Balboa Building, 735 State Street. From the airport, you may book SuperRide Airport Shuttle (805-683-9636) or take a cab. A cab is $20-$25 one way (I think). If you have any problems, call Josh on 805-452-7017.

Schedule

Sunday, July 30th

• Arrivals

Monday, July 31st

• 7:45 am Coffee
• 8:00 am Commence meeting
• 10:00 am Break
• 12:00 Lunch
• 3:00 pm Break
• 5:00 pm Finish for day

Tuesday, August 1st

• 7:45 am Coffee
• 8:00 am Start day
• 10:00 am Break
• 12:00 Lunch
• 3:00 pm Break
• 5:00 pm Finish for day

Wednesday, August 2nd

• 7:45 am Coffee
• 8:00 am Start day
• 10:00 am Break
• 12:00 End meeting
• Departures

Agenda

Priority levels: (1) High, (2) Medium, (3) Low

OBOE (1)

• Finalize structure so can begin publication, process, and extension processes
• TREE proposal
• URL
• OBOE guide
• Focus will be directed mainly at the Measurement Standard/Units region of the ontology
• We need to come to a concensus about how we are going to represent units for quantitative and qualitative/continuous and discrete unit types

Extension ontologies (1)

• Produce a draft convention for engineering extension ontologies
• Extension points: Entity, Characteristic, Measurement Standard, and Context
• Evaluation process
• Producing foundational controlled vocabularies
• Methods (e.g., text parsing)
• Browsing (e.g., online thesaurus-type browsing)
• Evaluation and filling-in of foundational controlled vocabulary
• E.g., public wikipedia-like interface for ecologists to add/edit/debate ecological concepts and relationships

Storing annotations (1)

• Discussion of ways to store OBOE data annotations
• EML extension/new module
• Short term versus long term considerations

Versioning and backward compatibility issues (2)

• E.g., OBOE's constant structural changes have made it hard to create extension ontologies

Data summarization (2)

• Demostration of summarization capabilities enabled by OBOE

Operation over observations and measurements (2)

• Demonstration of compatibility and conversion using OBOE
• Flush out all function necessary for simple data merge

ENM issues (3)

• Examine document provided by Deana
• ENM Document (DOC)

Links and Ontologies

• SEEK WebPage
• NCEAS WebPage

OBOE

• OBOE and other ontologies in cvs (OWL format)
• Current incarnation (PDF)

GO (the Gene Ontology)

• GO WebPage
• GO daily terms (OWL format)

DOLCE (Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering)

• DOLCE WebPage
• DOLCE lite (OWL format)

SWEET (Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology)

• SWEET ontologies (OWL format)

SUO (Standard Upper Ontology)

• SUO WebPage
• SUO Framework

FMA (Foundational Model of Anatomy)

• FMA home
• Foundational Model Explorer is a web-based tool for browsing the ontology

UCD (Uniform Content Descriptors)

• http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/doc/UCD/inVizieR.htx

Participants (6 budgeted to travel)

• Mark Schildhauer
• Josh Madin
• Shawn Bowers
• Matt Jones
• Bertram Ludaescher
• Serguei Krivov