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 Break
• 10:15am - 12:00pm Kepler User Interface Design
• Overview presentation of new Kepler UI (Downey, 45 minutes)
• Discussion and feedback on Kepler UI design (all, 1 hr)
• Tasks and milestones
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Taxon
• 1:00pm - 4:00pm Kepler Architecture (Berkley)
• Overview of Kepler architecture as designed to support new SMS/KR/Grid activities
• Kepler Object Manager
• Kepler KSW archive format
• Local Kepler Repositories (data, actors, onto's, annotations, etc.)
• Discussion and feedback
• 4:00pm - 5:00 pm EcoGrid Storage and Search (Jones)
• Changes needed to EcoGrid to support storing ontologies and annotations and supporting ontology-driven search of actors, workflows, and data

Tuesday, May 3

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Taxon
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Semantic Annotations in Kepler (Bowers)
• 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 (Berkley)
• 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
• Ontology-directed workflow design (Berkley)
• 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

Wednesday, May 4

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 10:00am Semantic workflow validation (Bowers)
• 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
• 8:30am - 10:00am Ontologies (Schildhauer)
• Overview of ontologies, how they work together, what's missing and needed
• ontologies covering ENM and Biodiversity case study data and actors specifically
• Ontology needs assessment
• Tasks and milestones

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 5:00pm Semi-automated data integration (Jones)
• Data integration (merging), use cases identified in beam biodiversity meeting
• Concatenate two or more data sets that are semantically and structurally compatible
• Join two or more data sets that are semantically and structurally compatible
• Concatenate two or more data sets that are semantically but not structurally compatible
• Join two or more data sets that are semantically but not structurally compatible
• SMS backend services
• User interface mockup
• Ontology needs assessment
• Tasks and milestones

Thursday, May 5

• 8:00am Coffee
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Semi-automated workflow composition (Bowers)
• 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)
• SMS backend services
• User interface mockup
• Ontology needs assessment
• Tasks and milestones
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm - 4:00pm Ontology formality and user interfaces for targeted users (Downey)
• Complexity of presenting formal ontologies to our target users
• Does the 'tree' representation work for our formalized ontologies
• Can our users really be expected to assimilate the formal model presented by our ontologies
• Can Growl, and specifically graphical extensions, help here?
• 4:00pm - 4:30pm Wrap Up

Friday, May 6

• Travel back to home institutions

Participants

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