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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2010-03-05

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Friday, March 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
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  • 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)

  • postmortem on the 2010.02.19 software development coordination session - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_19
    • continue discussion on some of the open management items (deferred from that session)
  • planning for upcoming virtual panel sessions on (i) Content, (ii) Use Cases, and (iii) IPR
  • Post OntologySummit2010_Symposium FO-OOR meeting proposed by John Sowa Tue 2010.03.16
  • 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)
    • Matt Hettinger - self introduction
      • doing an open portal for his "Enterprise as a System" practice (of which ontology system will be a subsystem in the enterprise system)
      • looking towards using OOR, and contributing to OOR both in terms of software and content
      • see: http://www.enterprisesystemtheory.net

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:
  • postmortem on the 2010.02.19 software development coordination session - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_19
  • planning for upcoming virtual panel sessions on (i) Content, (ii) Use Cases, and (iii) IPR
  • Post OntologySummit2010_Symposium FO-OOR meeting proposed by John Sowa Tue 2010.03.16
  • reports on member activities that are OOR-related
    • Bart's solicitation
    • AlexGarcia: re ORES10

... 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
  • Postmortem on the 2010.02.19 software development coordination session
    • 2010_02_19 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Coordinating our Open Ontology Repository Software Development" - Chair: Mike Dean - Panelists: Jim Chatigny, Michael Grüninger, Ken Baclawski, Natasha Noy - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_19   
    • deferred software management items (discussion)
    • Comments:
      • Matt: it was good, eye opening; intrigued by OWL vs CL conversation; interest in making tools to make OWL & CL interoperate
      • Peter: it was great; good to know so many instances are running now; federation work is great; sad that we didn't havwe enough time to finish the management discussion, should pick it up again soon
  • OOR-sandbox usage and progress review
  • progress review on planned OOR-related events
  • planning for upcoming virtual panel sessions on (i) Content, (ii) Use Cases, and (iii) IPR
    • 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)
    • "Content" session - 2010.03.25
      • Pat: question-1: CL support for OOR ... Peter: contact Michael Grüninger and get updates on his COLORE project
        • Presenters: John F. Sowa
        • question-2: who do we want at the session
        • Pat: what can OOR give people, to justify their contribution of content
        • Alex: suggest having someone from SWOOGLE
      • Pat: special call for "content" session planning Fri 2010.03.12 - same time
    • "Use cases" panel - 2010.04.01
      • Ken: still looking for panelists ... all else going well
    • "IPR cases" panel - t/b scheduled
      • Peter: still looking for a co-chair ... will work on this
  • 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 ontology on open source license
  • OOR presentation at the Semantic Technology 2010 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]
    • update/2010.03.05 - our proposal has been accepted. Mike Dean, Todd Schneider and Peter P. Yim will be doing a full (1-Hr) session to present OOR at this Conference, scheduled for 4:45 PM to 5:45 PM on Thursday, June 24, 2010.
  • 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
    • Jim: Mike's next goal is to get the SVN repository up and going
  • OOR-work in progress at Ryerson University
    • Bart installing OOR on local server
    • having technical problems, put on hold temporarily until time-cycles open up
    • server is online via ssh/ftp,
    • if anyone would like to assist, please let Bart Gajderowicz know (bgajdero@ryerson.ca)
    • AlexGarcia: re ORES10 - May 2010
      • call for paper extended to Mar 15
      • Alex: will look to collaborate with OOR,
      • Alex: will support remote presentation
        • Ken will make a presentation on OOR on behalf of this team
  • Funding and proposals ... (no update)
  • ... previously,
    • Ken Baclawski submitted an proposal to STCI, jointly with Peter P. Yim and MikeDean.
      • Ken: Our STCI proposal was declined by NSF due to formatting problems.
      • Ken: It will be revised and resubmitted.
    • 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 2010.03.19 - see details session page at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_19
    • ref. discussion above, we will also have, on 2010_03_12- Friday: OOR - special "Content" Panel Session Planning Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_12   
    • 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: 10:45 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2010.03.05-10:54am PST

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

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