KR Meeting July 06

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.

Licence file goes in folder -- get from Morpho
Copy right statement in OWL file -- see Morpho documents (GPL)
CVS 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; 6. Decide name for ontology;
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

Representing 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