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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Strategy, Tactics and Action Planning" Discussion Session - Tue 2012_11_20

Key Topic for Discussion: OOR Strategy, Tactics and Action Planning

Session Chair: PeterYim & KenBaclawski

This is a continuation from the "OOR Strategy" session of 2012.11.06. Please refer to proceedings from that meeting at OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_06

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Tuesday, 20-Nov-2012
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Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • ...
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Agenda Ideas

  • Focused discussion on the tactics and action plans that will help put the recently refined OOR Strategy in place
  • plan, confirm and make additions to the OOR event calendar
  • ... (add yours!)

Agenda & Proceedings

Archives:

1. Meeting called to order:

  • Ken Baclawski & Peter P. Yim took the chair and welcome everyone
  • Peter P. Yim volunteered to collate the notes, but encouraged everyone to capture their thoughts and document them on the chat board, as usual.
  • review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

  • welcome and intro of new member(s) (if applicable)

3. Key discussion: OOR Strategy and Funding - "A mini Strategic Planning Brainstorm Session"

3.0 Announcements & Reports

  • Various members made brief reports on his experience at ISWC 2012 (Boston, 2012.11.11~15) ... especially where there may be opportunities for OOR
    • Ken Baclawski: folks from the OASIS ODATA TC are interested in OOR, in particular, SAP may be willing to contribute (code)
    • Frank Olken: proceedings available online - see: http://ceur-ws.org/
    • Michael Grüninger: opportunity for OOR with people working on
      • "ontology matching" (JeromeEuzenat - we should probably engage someone who works with him who has a bit more time; SEALS project (Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale) - http://www.seals-project.eu), and
      • "ontology design patterns" (AldoGangemi; NEON; work using BioPortal)
    • Mike Dean:
      • trends: Linked Data (close to half of the papers); panel on Big Data; MarkMusen's keynote on avoiding the "AI Winter"
  • Peter P. Yim suggested we engage the Research Data Alliance - an emerging global "Data" effort aimed towards getting researchers around the world to share and use research data without barriers. The purpose of the Research Data Alliance is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables. - ref. http://rd-alliance.org

3.1 The "classic" (7-step) Strategic Planning process:

  • (i) Preparation & planning
  • (ii) Strategic Analyses
  • (iii) Set direction/strategy
  • (iv) Formulate tactics / Plan Actions
  • (v) Communicate Plans
  • (vi) Take action / Implement
  • (vii)Measure/evaluate results and fine tune strategy and tactics
  • re-iterate process

3.2 At our last (Tue 2012.11.06) session, we deliberated on (ii) & (iii) (including 3.3 ~ 3.5 below). Let's focus today's discussion (iv) (3.6 ~ 3.9 below)

3.3 (ii) Strategic Analyses - SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

3.4 For (iii) & (iv), let us make sure we stay "relevant" - and shape ours using the Curt Carlson / SRI "NABC" model ...

  • (N) Needs
  • (A) Approach
  • (B) Benefit
  • (C) Competition

3.5 Discussion: strategically, what shall we be doing differently in the next 12 to 36 months

3.6 Discussion: tactically, what shall we be doing differently in the next 6 to 12 months

  • Focused discussion on the tactics and action plans that will help put the recently refined OOR Strategy in place

... to provide synergies for all.

3.7 Discussion: how shall we get our resources / funding

3.8 Action Plans

3.9 Setting the metrics - what does "success" look like

4. References: most of the content below are inherited from the previous call(s), and will be edited/updated as this meeting progresses ...

  • 4.2 Member activities updates - Review: members and OOR-related activities (2012.07.10) ... (deferred discussion of this item)
    • OOR-sandbox status
    • code repository status
    • NCBO - BioPortal updates
    • NEU - Gatekeeper, ...
    • Raytheon-BBN - federation, ...
    • UToronto - COLORE
    • Bremen - Ontohub
    • Ryerson
    • Mathet
    • SOCoP_INTEROP - SOCoP-OOR
    • DataONE
    • NeOn (KMi and STL)
    • ONKI
    • KBSI
    • MMI
    • Use Cases
    • Architecture
    • API
    • Gatekeeping
    • production OOR instance
    • SIO
    • ICOM / DERI
    • content drive
    • Funding
  • 4.3 Action planning for "content drive" (getting people to upload ontologies) ... (deferred discussion of this item)
    • (discussion 2011.05.06):
      • an adopted Architecture & API is definitely crucial, but that's not all
    • All team members are encouraged to mull over how we can get to that state effectively
      • in particular ... how do we make this a "successful" community-driven, open source project!?
    • (discussion 2011.08.07) ...
      • ref. IAOA Committee and SIG session at FOIS (2012.07.25) discussion:
        • IAOA Ontology Registry and Repository Committee to put focus on contents
        • getting FOIS papers to be submitted with cited ontologies and their metadata, and have those ontologies hosted on OOR
  • 4.5 OOR instances OOR: status update and coordination ... (deferred discussion of this item)
  • OOR: sandbox, devbox, test-instance, socop, colore, ontohub, ornl-daac, mmi-orr, new ncbo-appliance, ... status update and coordination
  • 4.6 Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box ... (deferred discussion of this item)
    • we need a gatekeeping/policy module in place - [KenBaclawski]

5. IM Chat Transcript captured during the session

see raw transcript here.

(for better clarity, the version below is a re-organized and lightly edited chat-transcript.)

Participants are welcome to make light edits to their own contributions as they see fit.

-- begin in-session chat-transcript --

[07:32] Peter P. Yim: Welcome to the

OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Strategy, Tactics and Action Planning" Discussion Session - Tue 2012_11_20

Key Topic for Discussion: OOR Strategy, Tactics and Action Planning

Session Chair: PeterYim & KenBaclawski

This is a continuation from the "OOR Strategy" session of 2012.11.06. Please refer to proceedings

from that meeting at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_06

session page for today: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_20

Attendees: Peter P. Yim (co-chair), Ken Baclawski (co-chair), Michael Grüninger, Todd Schneider, Mike Dean, FrankOlken.

Proceedings:

[07:33] Peter P. Yim: (current) attendees: Ken Baclawski, Michael Grüninger, Peter P. Yim, Todd Schneider

[07:33] Michael Grüninger: Today is the start of the Toronto Ontology Festival (TOFFEE 2012)

featuring three seminars by Oliver Kutz

[07:53] Frank Olken: @MichaelGruninger Is there a web page for Toronto Ontology Festival (TOFFEE

2012)? Will papers / slides / videos be posted to web? ... Michael Grüninger: the event is informal,

but papers will be posted on the web (later)

[07:44] Frank Olken: == speaking of talks at ISWC last week.

[07:37] Ken Baclawski: There is a possibility that SAP would be interested in helping to develop the

OOR in connection with OData. It will be a few weeks before I find out whether this is more than

just a possibility. It will involve speaking more with the SAP representatives on the OData TC.

[07:39] Frank Olken: Ken, SAP would participate via its labs in Germany, US, or Korea?

[07:39] Frank Olken: Ken said SAP Germany.

[07:43] Todd Schneider: Natural ontology?

[07:43] Frank Olken: Very interesting talk: The Not-So-Easy Task of Computing Class Subsumptions in

OWL RL (spotlight) Markus Kroetzsch. Markus made the point that inference about T-boxes sometimes

requires consideration of the A-box information.

[07:45] Frank Olken: Papers from International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) are located on the

program page, e.g., http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/research-papers

[07:46] Frank Olken: Some of the workshops at ISWC posted their papers to CEUR, e.g. Workshop on

Consuming Linked Data at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-905/

[07:47] Frank Olken: The main site for CEUR (a list of proceedings) is: http://ceur-ws.org/

[07:47] Frank Olken: Next year ISWC will be located in Sydney, Australia.

[07:49] Frank Olken: IOS Press was selling FOIS proceedings and also STIDS proceedings. (Very

expensive).

[07:50] Frank Olken: Also, Enrico Motta (Italy) was demoing a system for analyzing and visualizing

social networks related to citation networks.

[07:53] Michael Grüninger: Ontology Matching uses the testing environment from the SEALS project

(Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale) http://www.seals-project.eu

[07:59] Todd Schneider: If OOR supports patterns, will that require a more sophisticated

classification' mechanism? In particular, how will search/find capabilities be impacted?

[08:02] Ken Baclawski: One unanswered question about patterns is whether they just ontologies or they

are a different concept. In either case, it would be useful to examine the existing use cases

(especially search) to determine whether they impact the use case. There could also be new use

cases.

[07:54] Frank Olken: Some of the talks at ISWC (keynotes?) were videotaped and will be posted

(somewhere) on the web.

[08:34] Mike Dean: Semantic Web conference/dogfood ontology is at http://data.semanticweb.org

[07:58] Peter: == another opportunity: building on the US federal initiatives and support toward

Data - bigdata, research-data, etc.

[08:02] Peter P. Yim: DWF (Data Web Forum) is evolving into the Research Data Alliance -

http://rd-alliance.org - suggest we engage them - their US effort is championed by Fran Berman at

RPI (and she is receptive to the collaboration)

[08:08] Frank Olken: Peter: RDA NSF program officer: Bob Chadduck (Bob is receptive to working with

us too)

[07:59] Frank Olken: Research Data Alliance http://rd-alliance.org/

[08:00] Frank Olken: the coming RDA Launch and Plenary Meeting in Gothenburg on March 18-20 2013.

[08:06] Frank Olken: NSF-Supported Research Data Alliance/U.S. Collaborates with International

Partners to Accelerate Data Sharing http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3102

[08:06] Frank Olken: The international launch and first plenary of the RDA will be held in

Gothenburg, Sweden, in March of 2013.

[08:10] Frank Olken: Research Data Alliance October 1-3, 2012 Westin Arlington Gateway meeting agenda

and slides http://d2i.indiana.edu/data2012/ResearchDataAlliance

[08:12] Peter P. Yim: == back to our main discussion: ref.

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_20#nid3IG3

[08:12] Peter P. Yim: Focused discussion on the tactics and action plans that will help put the recently

refined OOR Strategy in place (3IG2) explore how we might possibly leverage (3IG3) (i) the upcoming

Ontology Summit 2013, (3IG4) (ii) the OntologyBasedStandards initiative, and (3IG5) (iii) IAOA, ... to

provide synergies for all. (3IG6)

[08:15] Michael Grüninger: One possible topic might be the area around data curation and ontology

quality

[08:15] Peter P. Yim: see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit/Suggestions

[08:23] Ken Baclawski: Continuing with Michael's suggestion, it would be good to include not only

data curation and ontology quality but also big data. More precisely, the motivation for curation

and quality is to support big data. This would tie it in with a number of the suggestions as well as

with some recent important topics.

[08:24] Peter P. Yim: Peter / Michael: consolidate various existing Ontology-Standards efforts into the

OntologyBasedStandards initiative

[08:24] Frank Olken: Steve Ray (CMU Silicon Valley) is interested in the use of ontologies for Smart

Grid data exchange standards.

[08:25] Michael Grüninger: We can use the ontologies within standards that have already been

presented in earlier Ontolog sessions as candidates for the Content track within OOR. The idea will

be that all of these ontologies will appear in some OOR instance

[08:30] Peter P. Yim: think: ontology for research & conference papers

[08:31] Peter P. Yim: Ken / Peter / Michael: IAOA would be in a great position to take leadership and

make it a mandate

[08:33] Peter P. Yim: == next meeting:

[08:33] Peter P. Yim: no OOR meeting on Tue Nov-27

[08:35] Peter P. Yim: next OOR meeting will be on Tue 2012.12.04 - 1.5-Hrs. starting 7:30am PST /

10:30am EST / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC ... regular OOR team agenda, plus a continuation of this

strategy/tactics/action-planning discussion

[08:35] Peter P. Yim: by then, we will have more news about Ontology Summit 2013

[08:36] Peter P. Yim: -- session ended: 8:33am PST --

[08:36] List of attendees: Frank Olken, Ken Baclawski, Michael Grüninger, Mike Dean, Peter P. Yim,

ToddSchneider.

-- end in-session chat-transcript --

6. (Other) Action items:

  • ...

7. Any Other Business:

  • ...

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meetings:
    • 2012_11_27 - Tuesday: No OOR Meeting (there will be a CL meeting, and an Ontology Summit 2013 co-organizer prelim meeting that day)
    • 2012_12_04 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_12_04
      • note: we have decided to move the start earlier by one hour (just like today's and the last meeting) - future OOR meetings will continue to start at: 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC
    • ... please mark your calendars and come!
  • Call adjourned at: 8:33 am PST

--

notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2012.11.20-10:10am PST

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

Resources

  • the Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series:
    • 2011_10_20 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-1: Introducing the ISO NP 17347 "Ontology Integration and Interoperability (OntoIOp)" Standardization Effort - Co-chairs: John Bateman & Michael Grüninger - ConferenceCall_2011_10_20
    • 2011_11_03 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-2: Invited Speaker: Elisa Kendall on "Ontology-Related Metadata Standards" - Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & John Bateman - ConferenceCall_2011_11_03
    • 2012_07_17 - Tuesday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-3: "Standardisation Coordination and Ontology Repositories" - Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & John Bateman - ConferenceCall_2012_07_17
    • 2012_09_20 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-4: "Common Logic" - Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & John Bateman - ConferenceCall_2012_09_20
  • the OOR-IPR mini-series:
    • 2010_09_09 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-1: an exposition on relevant IPR regimes - Keynote speaker: George Strawn - Chair: Peter P. Yim - Panelists: JamieClark, John Wilbanks, Bruce Perens - ConferenceCall_2010_09_09
    • 2010_09_16 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-2: what are the IPR issues relating to open ontology repositories (and ontologies in general)? - Chair: Mark Musen - Panelists: Cameron Ross, Alan Rector, John F. Sowa, Bruce Perens, John Wilbanks, Peter P. Yim - ConferenceCall_2010_09_16
    • 2010_09_30 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-3: discussion and consensus on licensing arrangements for the OOR Initiative, and positions we might take on related IPR issues - chair: Leo Obrst - Panelists: Peter P. Yim, Mike Dean, Bruce Perens, JamieClark - ConferenceCall_2010_09_30



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