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KR Meeting July 06

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Logistics

Where: Room 201 on the second floor of NCEAS, Santa Barbara, California (805-892-2500)
Hotel: Marina Beach Motel
When: July 31- Aug. 2, 2006
Reimbursements: http://lternet-183.lternet.edu/doc_archive/forms/, forms will be given out on the first day.

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

Wednesday TODO:

  • Discuss annotation GUI
    • Kepler or Morpho?
    • Should we move forward creating Kepler actor for "sensible" summarisation without annotation GUI

OBOE (1)

  • Finalize structure so can begin publication, process, and extension processes PRETTY MUCH DONE?
    • TREE proposal
    • URL
    • OBOE guide
  • Focus will be directed mainly at the Measurement Standard/Units region of the ontology DONE?
    • We need to come to a concensus about how we are going to represent units for quantitative and qualitative/continuous and discrete unit types DONE?
  • Add copyright/licence (GPL)/restrictions in to OWL ontologies metadata field; enter version IDs.
Action items:
Steps: 1. Implement changes in OWL; 2. Upload to URL; 3. Work on illustraive examples; 4. Draft guide; 5. Submit TREE porposal
By who: Josh, with help from Shawn
By when: End of August

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
Action items:
Steps: 1. Produce SEEK set of high-level extesion ontologies, primarily for illustrative purposes; 2. Write set of instructions/rules for creating extension ontologies for other groups/initiatives.
By who: Josh
By when: End of September

Storing annotations (1)

  • Discussion of ways to store OBOE data annotations
    • EML extension/new module
    • Short term versus long term considerations
Action items:
Steps: 1. Decide on syntax/language for annotation; 2. Develop GUI for annotation; 3. Decide where/how annotation syntax will be saved
By who: Shawn, with help from Josh
By when: End of September

Versioning and backward compatibility issues (2)

  • E.g., OBOE's constant structural changes have made it hard to create extension ontologies
Action items:
Steps: ...
By who: ...
By when: ...

Data summarization (2)

  • Demostration of summarization capabilities enabled by OBOE
Action items:
Steps: 1. Create basic summarization actor in kepler that reads annotation and ...
By who: Josh
By when: End of September

Operation over observations and measurements (2)

  • Demonstration of compatibility and conversion using OBOE
  • Flush out all function necessary for simple data merge
Action items:
Steps: 1.
By who: ...
By when: ...

ENM issues (3)

Action items:
Steps: ...
By who: ...
By when: ...

Links and Ontologies

OBOE

GO (the Gene Ontology)

DOLCE (Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering)

SWEET (Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology)

SUO (Standard Upper Ontology)

FMA (Foundational Model of Anatomy)

UCD (Uniform Content Descriptors)

Participants (6 budgeted to travel)

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



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