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SMS_KR_Taxon Developers Meeting May 2005

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Logistics

Where: Estes Park, CO
Hotel: Information to be provided
When: May 1-6, 2005
Weather: Historical Current

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

mccartney/juyal
michener/romanello/pennington/jianting/downey
ludaescher/bowers
jones/schildhauer/berkley/higgins/tao/williams?/brooke?/harris?
villa/krivov
jennywang/bing/raja
beach/stewart/gales/gauch?/peet/kennedy/liu/franz/downey

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