SEEK Meetings Agenda

We are using this Wiki section to coordinate our 'SEEK-internal meetings' prior to the Edinburgh eScience Workshop, i.e. for the period of 'Sunday, May 9 to Tuesday, May 11.' During this period we will run parallel sessions for EcogGrid, KR/SMS, Kepler, and Taxon.

Edinburgh

The meetings will take place at the Merchiston Campus of Napier University from the 9-11th May (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday). http://www.napier.ac.uk/campusmaps/merch003.asp for a map of how to get there and bus details or http://www.multimap.com to get your bearings a bit better. You can find the Merchiston campus (or anywhere else) quite simply by entering the postcode (if you know it!). For Napier's Merchiston campus the postcode is EH105DT. If you know your hotel postcode then you can see where you are relative to your hotel.

The meetings will be held in the Merchiston Conference Suite and in room D40. I suggest that you meet in the conference suite room and then get directions to D40 if your group is scheduled to be in that room. Tea/Coffee will be provided for the morning and afternoon breaks and lunch will be "buy your own" which can be obtained from the Apex cafe or Triangle canteen on campus or for those that want to explore and have time, there are shops and cafes nearby.

From the 12-14th, the eScience GRID Environments workshop will take place at the National eScience Institute, postcode of which is EH89AA or you can look at their directions page at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/nesc/contact.html#Map During the workshop, teas/coffees and lunch will be provided and dinner on the evening of the 12th.

The weather in Edinburgh is variable so I can't really advise you what to expect - anything from 45F-60F, rain, wind, sun.... who knows....so come prepared for whatever :-)

Remember we are a Pounds Sterling country, we don't accept Euros in very many places. Credit cards no problem.

Don't forget we have strange plugs here and you will need an adapter for your laptop.......

Hopefully the administration team at NeSc can keep you right on your accommodation and general queries but if you're having any problems or have any other questions let me know and I'll list the answers here for all to see (j.kennedy@napier.ac.uk).

Provisional Agenda

Sunday, May 9th

Plenary session, all particpants

PlenaryMeetingNotes
SemanticMediationSystem/KR breakout

This session is an overview discussion about progress in SEEK intended to familiarize all of the participants in SEEK with the status of each of the subprojects. Each sub-project lead will give a brief (10 minute) overview of the current status of their sub projects, followed by a one hour discussion.

08:00-08:30 Welcome
08:30-09:30 Status updates (Jones, Rajasekar, Ludaescher, Schildhauer, Michener, Proxy for Beach)
09:30-10:30 SEEK project status discussion
10:30-10:45 Break (Merchiston conference Suite)

Track 1: SMS/KR

10:45-12:30 KR/SMS Presentations / Status update and discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Discussion on "hot topics":
__ EML and KR (a la OWL):
-- What kind of semantic information is already provided by EML?
-- What is "almost" provided by EML?
-- What is not in EML but is needed? (and for what?)
__ EcoGrid, Semantic Mediation, KR:
-- What *is* the EcoGrid? (Shawn asks ;-), e.g., what is the
uniform structure of the EG that can be assumed by SMS?
What is provided by "get" and "query"?
__ Clarify the needs of SMS vs what EG currently provides
__ How to integrate SMS services and EcoGrid services?
__ Should ontologies, registration mappings, etc. be stored on the
EG? (or in a web repository? or as part of the Kepler distribution? ...)
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Discussion Contd.

Track 2: EcoGrid

10:45-12:30 Enter agenda here
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Enter agenda here
15:30-15:45 Break (Merchiston conference Suite)
15:45-16:30 Enter agenda here

Joint SMS/KR/EcoGrid discussion

This session is to get EcoGrid and SMS/KR participants to discuss some of the areas of common need and overlap between these groups, in particular the types of data delivery that SMS expects from EcoGrid.

16:30-18:00 SMS/KR/EcoGrid discussion

Monday, May 10th

Track 1: Kepler

08:00-10:30 Enter agenda here
10:30-10:45 Break (Merchiston Conference suite)
10:45-12:30 Enter agenda here
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Enter agenda here
15:30-15:45 Break (Merchiston Conference suite)
15:45-18:00 Enter agenda here

Track 2: SEEK Taxon Workgroup Meeting, Day 1

09:00-09:30 Introduction, overview & organization, updates, etc.
09:30-10:45 '''Transfer schema report - dry run, part I'''
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 '''Transfer schema report - dry run, part II'''
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:45 Use Cases review
14:45-15:30 Concept synonymy
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-18:00 GUIDs (open end)

Taxon Agenda details

Tuesday, May 11th

Track 1: SMS/KR

08:00-10:30 Continued status update (demos) and discussion of hot topics:
__ KR focus discussion; possible topics:
-- KR ontology repository (conceptual and physical org),
-- roles of informal, graph, formal ontologies
-- ...
__ SMS focus discussion; possible topics:
-- semantic registration,
-- services for informal, graph, formal ontologies
-- ...
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:30 Continue....
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Planning and Assignments:
-- milestones (short, medium/6 months)
-- use cases to drive those
-- prototypes
-- teams to work on milestones
15:30-15:45 Break (Merchiston Conference suite)

Track 2: SEEKTaxonWG2 Taxonomy Workgroup Meeting Day 2

Location: D40 Start time: 08:00

08:00-10:30 See Taxon agenda link below
10:30-10:45 Break (Merchiston Conference suite)
10:45-12:30 See Taxon agenda link below
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 See Taxon agenda link below
15:30-15:45 Break (Merchiston Conference suite)

Taxon Agenda details

Plenary session, all participants

This session is a final chance for all participants to discuss issues that need

to be addressed across subprojects of SEEK as well as to discuss preparations for the e-Science meeting on the following days.

15:45-18:00 Plenary wrapup discussion