November 13-16, 2002
Spencer Research Library
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
| Wednesday November 13 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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) | |
