SEEK All Hands Meeting 20021113

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Background Information and Links. Participants

Meeting schedule:

Wednesday November 13 evening Arrive Wednesday afternoon/evening at MCI, drive/shuttle to Lawrence (1 hour) 7:00 pm Early bird, informal dinner @ Tellers Restaurant, Massachusetts Street and 8th Thursday November 14 7:45 am Coffee and continental breakfast, Spencer Research Library 8:00 Welcome Beach; Krishtalka; Research Librarian Introductions Overview of SEEK vision from a community perspective Michener Summary of proposed SEEK activities and architecture Jones 10:00 Break 10:30 Presentations (12 x 5 minutes each) on relevance of existing projects to SEEK development. Limit 5 slides/ 5 minutes + couple minutes discussion The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) Jones Xanthoria/ClimDB McCartney Ontology-Based Classification Gauch Storage Resource Broker: A Brief Introduction Rajasekar Semantic Mediation and Scientific Workflows Ludaescher Integrating modelling architecture: ontologies for cross-scale, cross-paradigm natural system modelling Villa The Prometheus approach to multiple classifications Kennedy Spatiotemporal Extrapolation of Ecological Knowledge Pennington LTER Informatics Activities Brunt The VegBank taxonomic data model Peet Access to Distributed Collections Vieglais Massive ecological data analysis and visualization Stockwell Modeling Complex Biodiversity Phenomena Using Informatics Tools Peterson 12:20 Meeting Structure and Objectives Michener 12:30 Lunch in building, 20-minute tour of natural history library 2:00 Breakout groups (2.5 hours meeting, 1/2 hour break at 3:30 pm, 10 minute report, 20 minute discussion) EcoGrid Identify existing data network efforts to consider for interoperation Identify actual target networks for this project Candidate functionality/features with milestones/timelines Identify other relevant grid activities Discussion of architectural approaches User interfaces Desired roles/participation Identify possible people for membership/participation How to best leverage efforts in community? Personnel & hiring Rajasekar Biodiversity and Ecological Analysis and Modeling WG End user groups, driver users Prototype hi-visibility questions; building blocks biodiversity and ecology dynamics How to best link with BEAM, and other 2 WGs Data discovery/availability Identify information & data needs Identify leveraging groups (eg LIDET, TRAGNET) Identify possible people for membership/participation Personnel & hiring Michener 6:00 Reception and dinner in building Friday November 15 7:45 am Coffee and continental breakfast, Spencer Research Library 8:30 Breakout groups (2.5 hours meeting, 1/2 hour break at 10:00 am, 10 minute report, 20 minute discussion) Semantic Mediation System Identify existing ontologies/terminologies How used today by community, availability (book, CD?) High-level scenarios/use cases for semantic mediation Candidate functionality/features with milestones/timelines What role does SM play in dynamic integration and discovery of data? (when integrated view not put together ahead of time) What infrastructure needed to assist KR/Ontology WG? Identify possible people for membership/participation How to best leverage efforts in community? Personnel & hiring Ludaescher Taxonomy WG Identify existing projects & models for concept-based taxon Identify requirements for classification data architecture Consider alternatives to concept-based taxon? Do concept-based taxonomies actually solve a problem? How can classification architecture contribute to A&M & Ecogrid Shoud we accommodate P-code & alternate naming systems, and if so, how? End-user tools to manipulate classification trees Discuss overlap with SM How to populate such an ambitious DB Identify possible people for membership/participation How to best leverage efforts in community? Personnel & hiring Beach 12:30 Lunch in building 2:00 - 5:30 Breakout groups (2 hours meeting, 1/2 hour break at 3:30 pm, 10 minute report, 20 minute discussion) Analysis and Modeling System Identify existing systems that are relevant (e.g., Ptolemy, Pipeline Pilot) High-level scenarios/use cases for semantic mediation Candidate functionality/features with milestones/timelines What infrastructure is required for DAM WG User interfaces Identify possible people for membership/participation How to best leverage efforts in community? Personnel & hiring Jones Knowledge Representation WG What will useful ontologies be for A&M and SEEK in general Identify existing controlled vocabularies that can be leveraged To what extent can ontology generation be automated? Level of formalism and expressiveness needed for SM End-user tools to develop & modify ontologies End-user tools to expose ontologies to domain scientist Tools/metrics for relevance Prioritize products and milestones (deliver ontology to SM) Identify possible people for membership/participation How to best leverage efforts in community? Personnel & hiring Schildhauer 6:00 Group dinner at local microbrewery Saturday November 16 7:45 am Coffee and continental breakfast, Spencer Research Library 8:30 Discussion of overall SEEK vision/plan; unresolved issues; collaboration techniques and tools; exposing SEEK to broader community 11:30 Meeting adjourns 12:30 Lunch on your own, or depart Lawrence after 12:30. Need to leave Lawrence 2 hours before flight. United, USAir, AmerWest, Southwest (MCI)

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