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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2010-02-05

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Friday, February 5, 2009
  • Start Time: 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST / 6:00pm CET / 5:00pm GMT / 17:00 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
  • Dial-in Number:
    • from a US telephone (US): +1-218-486-3600 (domestic long distance cost will apply)
    • When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "4389979#"
    • from Europe, call:
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      • UK 0844-581-9148
    • callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
  • RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated, ... or simply just by adding yourself to the "Expected Attendee" list below (if you are a member of the team.)
  • Please note that this session may be recorded, and if so, the audio archive is expected to be made available as open content, along with the proceedings of the call to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy.

Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • ... if you are coming to the meeting, please add your name above (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail <peter.yim@cim3.com> so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ...

Agenda Ideas

please insert below (along with your name for follow-up purposes)

  • review priority list and assign champions
  • preparation for the 2010.02.19 software development coordination session
  • planning for upcoming virtual panel sessions on (i) Content, and (ii) Use Cases
  • OOR-sandbox installation & usage progress review
  • progress review on planned OOR-related events
  • reports on member activities that are OOR-related
  • ...

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

  • review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

  • welcome and intro of new member(s) (as needed)

3. Status Review and Discussion:

  • Urgent issues:
    • none
  • Review of our priority list:
    • 1. continue to push OOR development and get more contributors ... [All]
    • 2. set up policies and process for contributing to OOR work
      • setup clear and easy policies and process to engage developers and have them contribute code ... [champion: MikeDean]
      • build out "gatekeeping" and move from just having an OOR-sandbox to having available instances of an OOR-sandbox and an OOR-production ... [champion: KenBaclawski]
      • setup clear and easy policies and process to engage content stewards and have them contribute ontologies to our public instance of OOR
    • 3. systematically solicit content contributions
    • 4. get the work funded ... [champion: KenBaclawski]
    • 5. regularly review requirements and existing standards to make sure we are on track ... [All]
    • 6. continue with efforts in publicity and outreach ... [All]
  • Key items for discussion at this call:
  • review priority list and assign champions
  • preparation for the 2010.02.19 software development coordination session
  • planning for upcoming virtual panel sessions on (i) Content, and (ii)Use Cases
  • OOR-sandbox installation & usage progress review
  • progress review on planned OOR-related events
  • reports on member activities that are OOR-related

... some of the items below are from the previous call(s), and will be updated as we progressed on this meeting.

  • review priority list and assign champions
    • discussed and updated as above
  • Preparation for the 2010.02.19 software development coordination session
    • confirmed date: Fri 19-Feb-2010 Mike Dean will chair
    • Peter to contact NCBO folks and Mike to invite others
    • developing session page is at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_19
    • Mike: proposed agenda for the 2010.02.19 session:
      • introduction (Mike Dean)
        • recent installations
      • recent OOR development
        • federation (Jim Chatigny)
        • Common Logic (Michael Gruninger)
        • Gatekeeping and Provenance (Ken Baclawski)
      • upcoming BioPortal plans (Natasha, et al)
      • software management (discussion)
        • OOR branch
        • feeding back changes
        • BioPortal and OOR change requests
        • commit rights?
        • Wiki access?
    • Peter: suggest pinging the other people who were at our last (2009.07.30) developers session as well, and encourage them to remain engaged (and come to our session) - ref. ConferenceCall_2009_07_30
  • OOR-sandbox installation progress review
    • Big THANK YOU to Mike Dean for the testing, and Paul Alexander and Tejas Parikh (NEU) for the fixes and updates over the last two weeks
    • the OOR-sandbox (v.2) seems to be stable and functioning as expected now
    • we will be retiring OOR-sandbox (v.1) this weekend
      • one will still be able to reach OOR-sandbox (v.1) at http://oor-01s.cim3.net/ at least until the next regular team meeting (Mar-5)
      • Peter will be re-mapping the DNS for OOR-sandbox servers, and, with that, the OOR-sandbox (v.1) will be accessible via http://oor-01s.cim3.net/ ... whereas, OOR-sandbox (v.2) which is now accessed via http://oor-01f.cim3.net/ will be official reachable as: http://oor-01.cim3.net/ ... <oor-01> being the canonical hostname for our OOR-sandbox ... [ "s" is for San Mateo, CA., and "f" is for Fremont, CA, where the boxes are physically located ]
  • progress review on planned OOR-related events
  • planning for upcoming virtual panel sessions on (i) Content, and (ii) Use Cases
    • Content Panel - candidate co-champions: Pat Cassidy, Denise Bedford ... (AldoGangemi (Michael will contact)?)
      • Pat Cassidy: Questions:
        • Q1. how are we related to other similar work? ... Peter explained the relationship between BioPortal and OOR
        • Q2. any discussion on how ontologies will be indexed? ... Mike: reference made to Ontology Summit 2008
        • Pat will help upload some ontologies to the OOR-sandbox (v.2) in the near future -- those he uploaded previously to the v.1 sandbox, updated, and add ontologies like SUMO (in OWL), etc.
        • Pat: suggest we add a link to swoogle (and other ontology search engine) too, to allow people to search, both within and without the OOR.
        • Peter suggest we be aware that we need the entire content spectrum from ontology-light to FOL-ontologies
        • Pat will contact Denise and come back with a date selection within a week -- candidate date Mar-25
    • Use Cases Panel-2 - candidate co-champion: Ken Baclawski & Todd Schneider to move ahead (Ken wasn't able to reach KGoodier)
    • candidate date Apr-1 (but will consider moving up to mar-25 if Pat & Denise gives up on that date)
    • Michael suggest that we can make it "more friendly" for content people to use the OOR (by having members of this OOR team provide help and support)
  • starting thinking on a panel-3 session to discuss IPR and Licensing
    • we will need to standardize, and establish an IPR policy for this team.
    • Peter P. Yim will find another co-champion and drive this
    • Ken: maybe someone should develop an otology on open source license
  • possibility of doing an OOR presentation at the Semantic Technology Conference (21~25-Jun-2010, San Francisco, CA, USA.)
    • ... possibility of doing an OOR presentation at the Semantic Technology Conference (21~25-Jun-2010, San Francisco, CA, USA.) ... [champion: MikeDean]
    • Mike: proposal done! [Thank you Mike]
  • reports on member activities that are OOR-related - see above
  • OOR-work Progress at NEU:
    • Ken: students have produce a few hundred use cases (lots of duplicates, of course) -- not exactly OOR, but related, with emphasis in gatekeeping ... project is actually called "Keeper"
    • Ken: students are interested in getting their work licensed and published/released.
      • have instructed student to consider picking some Creative Commons or Open Source Licence
  • OOR-work Progress at Raytheon / BBN:
    • Jim: reported on progress with federation work ... (Jim, Dan or Mike: please elaborate here, if you can get around to it.)
      • Jim's development OOR instance is able to federate from oor-01f (as the remote host) ... it works pretty well (and updates every minute!)
      • Jim will be presenting their work on Feb-19
    • Mike / Jim: we could offer this back to the BioPortal folks, and this could be discussed during the Feb-19 session
      • this work is under the BSD open source license
  • Funding and proposals ... (no update)
  • ... previously,
    • Ken Baclawski submitted an proposal to STCI, jointly with Peter P. Yim and MikeDean.
      • Ken: our STCI proposal seems to have been declined by NSF; NEU has been re-organizing the Tech Transfer office, so the people handling our submission is not available any more
        • Ken will try to call the NSF program officer to find out
    • Carlos Rueda has submitted a proposal that has OOR as a key aspect.
    • Nancy Wiegand / SOCoP also submitted a NSF proposal that OOR is a part
      • no news yet

4. New Issues:

5. Any Other Business:

6. Action items:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meeting:
    • next regular team call, same time, Fri 2010.02.19 our software development coordination session - see details session page at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_19 ... note that thi session will start one hour early!
    • the team conference call right after that will be back at the regular time on Fri 2010.03.05 - see details session page at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_05
    • Note: earlier resolution: all team members please (if possible) block out Fridays 1.5 Hr starting 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT / 16:00 GMT/UTC
  • Call adjourned at: 10:44 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2010.02.05-11:35am PST

All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.

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