SMS_KR_Taxon Developers Meeting May 2005

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Logistics

Agenda

Sunday, May 1

• Arrivals from Airport

Monday, May 2

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am Welcome (Jones)
• 9:00am Overview of meeting goals (Jones)
• 10:00am - 12:00pm Kepler User Interface Design
• Overview presentation of new Kepler UI (Downey, 1 hr)
• Discussion and feedback on Kepler UI design (all, 1 hr)
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Taxon
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Kepler Architecture (Berkley)
• Overview of Kepler architecture as designed to support new SMS/KR/Grid activities
• Kepler Object Manager
• Kepler KSW archive format
• Repositories (data, actors, onto's, annotations, etc.)
• Discussion and feedback

Tuesday, May 3

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Taxon
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Semantic Annotations in Kepler
• Creating, editing, saving, and publishing annotations for actors, data, workflows
• SMS backend services
• User interface mockup
• Ontology needs assessment
• Tasks and milestones
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Taxon
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Actor and data classification and browsing
• Classification of actors and data into categories, browsing and searching those through Kepler
• SMS backend services
• User interface mockup
• Ontology needs assessment
• Tasks and milestones

Wednesday, May 4

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Semantic workflow validation
• Running a semantic consistency check on all workflow components and data flows, providing visual indication of semantic validity for links (preferably during workflow authoring)
• SMS backend services
• User interface mockup
• Ontology needs assessment
• Tasks and milestones
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Ontology-directed workflow design
• UI changes to allow search and browse of semantically (and structurally) compatible workflow components
• SMS backend services
• User interface mockup
• Ontology needs assessment
• Tasks and milestones

Thursday, May 5

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Semi-automated integration and composition
• Semantically-derived transformation steps (i.e., locating and inserting one or more actors into a wf to allow two semantically compatible actors to be connected structurally)
• Data integration (merging)
• SMS backend services
• User interface mockup
• Ontology needs assessment
• Tasks and milestones
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 4:00pm
• 4:00pm - 4:30pm Wrap Up

Friday, May 6

• Travel back to home institutions

OLD AGENDA

Sunday, May 1

• Arrivals from Airport

Monday, May 2

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am Welcome (Jones)
• 9:00am Overview of meeting goals (Jones)
• 10:00am - 12:00pm Kepler User Interface Design
• Overview presentation of new Kepler UI (Downey, 1 hr)
• Discussion and feedback on Kepler UI design (all, 1 hr)
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Taxon
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm KR
• Taking stock
• Plan and Discuss:
• How to organize current ontologies
• Obtaining new ontologies
• Curating ontologies
• Technologies (existing, needed)
• Define use cases for ontology development

Tuesday, May 3

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Taxon
• 8:30am - 12:00pm KR
• Ontology editing/displaying:
• GrOWL
• Integration in kepler
• Other ontology displays in kepler (per task)
• For search / browsing
• For explaining results
• etc.
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Taxon
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm KR
• Develop kepler ontology display/interaction use cases
• Set milestones for next six months

Wednesday, May 4

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Taxon
• 8:30am - 12:00pm SMS
• Existing use cases and status:

• Biodiversity (shawn, mark, bertram)
• Niche modeling (deana)
• Tools and applications (SMS, GIS, SCIA, ...)
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Taxon
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm SMS
• Needed SMS graphical interfaces in kepler
• For annotation, search, integration, answer explanation, etc.
• Set milestones for next six months

Thursday, May 5

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Kepler Architecture
• Current Architectural Components
• The Kepler Object Manager
• Repositories (data, actors, onto's, annotations, etc.)
• SMS Services
• Taxon Services
• Towards a "SEEK" archicture
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 4:00pm KR/SMS and Taxon
• Identify similar functionality that could be "shared"
• Identify connections between services (e.g., for search, etc.)
• Define a plan for collaboration
• Select one or two particular use cases (biodiversity?)
• Identify who will work together
• Identify a basic timeline
• 4:00pm - 4:30pm Wrap Up

Friday, May 6

• Is this day to be used, or is it a travel day? Probably travel...

Guests

Participants

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