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SEEK Technical Meeting 20031022

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October 22-26, 2003
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Santa Barbara, California

Participants

This meeting is a series of back-to-back working group meetings for the EcoGrid, Semantic Mediation, Knowledge Representation, and Analysis and Modeling subgroups of SEEK. The major goal of this meeting is for the subgroups to make technical advances in their respective topical areas.

Logistics and meeting venue: The meeting will be held at the Upham Hotel (1404 De La Vina St., 805-962-0058) in Santa Barbara, CA. The Upham hotel website contains information about the hotel accomadations and how to get there (see a map to the hotel). When you arrive at the airport, take the SuperRide shuttle downtown to the Upham, and be sure to tell tham that you are coming to NCEAS/UCSB as they will give you a discount. It is about 8 miles from the airport to the hotel.

Meeting schedule:

Oct 22 EcoGrid
7:30 am Continental breakfast
8:30 am Welcome, introductions, brief overview Jones
9:30am - 3:00 pm EcoGrid breakout A
-- Develop list of data sources for niche modeling task
-- Include traditional and non-traditional sources (e.g., ecology survey data transformed to be occurrence data)
-- Identify locations of the data sources now, and where they can/should be stored and accessed from EcoGrid, who needs to be contacted to get the right data
-- Possibly enter metadata/data as appropriate into metacat/srb for later retrieval
9:30 am EcoGrid breakout B
EcoGrid API status and implementation issues
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Registry and discovery
12:00 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Authentication, Authorization, and CAs
3:00 pm Breakout report
3:30 pm Revise tasks and milestones, plan release schedule
4:00 pm adjourn to make it to the ERE reception at NCEAS at 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Oct 23 KR/SMS
8:00 am Continental breakfast
8:45 am Welcome Ludaescher, Schildhauer
9:00 am What is metadata and what is KR? -- connections between EML and ontologies Schildhauer
9:45 am Low Level KR/SMS issues: Typing data sets and pipelines for access via EcoGrid, and usage within AMS Bowers
10:30 am BREAK
10:45 am Practical KR: Prototype ontologies for Scientific Measurement and Ecological Networks Williams
11:30 am Discussion
12:00 pm - 1:15pm LUNCH BREAK
1:15 pm EcoGrid dependencies and needs from EML/KR/SMS Jones
2:00 pm Breakout A: discussion of KR/SMS API for the EcoGrid
Breakout B: how to extend EML or otherwise bridge KR/SMS with EML
3:30 pm BREAK
3:45 pm Breakout report and discussion; milestones, deliverables, and task assignments
5:00 pm adjourn
Oct 24 AMS
7:30 am Continental breakfast
8:30 am AMS development overview and discussion
9:15 - 5:30 AMS breakout A
-- Review, create/revise PTII niche modeling workflows *using PTII*
-- Prioritize actor implementation tasks
-- Develop classification of analyses + models for Grid service discovery
9:15 am AMS breakout B
Types in PTII: records, nulls, TypeLattice, and EML data ingestion
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Semantic types: utilization in PTII and MoML integration (MoML vs WSDL)
11:45 am Alternative workflow approaches (UML, BPEL) Sundermier
12:00 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Grid services: finding + getting data from EcoGrid in Ptolemy
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Grid service discovery in PTII + classifying analytical services
4:00 pm Grid service execution in PTII for computation: dynamic ports
Workflow planning + optimized execution of Grid services
5:30 pm adjourn
Oct 25 KR/SMS
7:30 am Continental breakfast
8:30 am Integrated/Object Modelling (IOM) vs KR/SMS Krivov, Villa
9:15 am AMS dependencies on SMS: experiences and recommendations from SciDAC Ludaescher
9:45 am Discussion --IOM and AMS relative to KR/SMS
10:30 am BREAK
10:45 am Requirements for ontology registries: how do we store, access, and share our efforts-- formalisms and frameworks
12:00- 1:15pm LUNCH BREAK
1:15 pm task for breakout sessions
1:30 pm Breakout A: BEAM needs from KR/SMS
-- tools and approaches for domain experts, granularity needs for assuring reusability, review existing ontologies and their utility
Breakout B: details of ontology repositories on the EcoGrid, semantic data registration, inter-ontology linkages, existing sources (thesauri, MORIS, GCMD, etc.)
3:30 pm BREAK
3:45 pm Breakout report and discussion; milestones, deliverables, and task assignments.
5:00 pm adjourn
Oct 26 AMS (morning) 7:30 am Continental breakfast 8:30 am Breakout group report and discussion -- issues with PTII and improving the PT UI -- Classification of analyses and models for discovery -- Separating the Ptolemy UI from execution engine 9:30 am Integrating actors: using SMS for workflow construction - generating transform actors on the fly 10:30 am Break 10:45 am Revise tasks and milestones, plan release schedule 12:00 pm Lunch Integration (afternoon) 1:15 pm Discussion of integration tasks 3:00 pm Break 3:15 pm Discussion of integration tasks 3:45 pm Revise tasks and milestones, develop release schedule 5:00 pm adjourn



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