Founding Members Meeting of the OpenOntologyRepository (OOR) Initiative - Wed 2008.01.23    (17CW)

This is the (first) Founding Members meeting (conference call) of the Open Ontology Repository (OOR) Initiative. Please refer also to the planning meeting* for this initiative, where the effort was materialized, along with its name and charter. (*ref. ConferenceCall_2008_01_03)    (17CX)

Conference Call Details    (17T5)

Attendees    (17D9)

Agenda Ideas    (17U5)

... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)    (17UA)

Resources    (17UB)

Agenda & Proceedings    (17TT)

1. Meeting called to order:    (17UG)

2. Roll Call:    (17UK)

3. Status Review and Discussion:    (17UM)

5. New Issues:    (17V1)

6. Any Other Business:    (17V2)

7. Action items:    (17V3)

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:    (17V4)

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 notes taken by: PeterYim / 2008.01.23-10:39am PST
 All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity  of the documented proceedings.    (17V9)

Discussion Process:    (17VF)

PeterYim: Welcome to: Founding Members Meeting of the OpenOntologyRepository (OOR) Initiative - Wed 2008.01.23

anonymous morphed into Lee Feigenbaum

RaviSharma: what is he broad agenda?

JohnGraybeal1: Ravi, it is here:http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_01_23

JohnGraybeal1: The assumption of a distributed system as the primary (?) solution merits further discussion, 
but I don't think it affects the definition.

RaviSharma: location could be virtual and is only importnt for infrastructure and architecture such as 
distributed for eficiency etc.

RaviSharma: Repository is a database or datawarehouse where ontology information and artifacts including 
executables and software components and objects are stored.

RaviSharma: Registry is both a mechanism to represent metadata about the contents of repository as well as 
a representation of public and private access and membership lists etc.

RaviSharma: Both registries and repositories can be distributed and federated.

anonymous morphed into Anders W. Tell

SteveRay: How about: A repository is a storage facility where ontology information and artifacts 
including executables and software components and objects can be found.

SteveRay: Then, a registry is an index that organizes and directs the user to information stored in 
a repository.

KenBaclawski: Are registries and repositories separate notions or does a repository necessarily include 
a registry?

JohnGraybeal: How critical are the words 'including executables and software components and objects"?  
It raises a question for me about what they are doing in the registry.

RaviSharma: artifacts and information elements are ok

RaviSharma: services are ok

SteveRay: A repository is a storage facility where information artifacts can be found.

SteveRay: An ontology repository is a storage facility where ontologies and related information artifacts 
can be stored, retrieved and managed.

SteveRay: An ontology repository is a facility where ontologies and related information artifacts can be 
stored, retrieved and managed.

SteveRay: For the future: A registry is an index that organizes and directs the user to objects found in 
a repository.

JohnGraybeal: To clarify for the minutes, let me introduce here (no comment needed at this time) the two 
clarifying definitions I mentioned earlier. (I think these come from ISO 19135 but can't swear to that.)

JohnGraybeal: Register: database of the items being registered.

AndersTell: Reference to existing and important work: <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=regrep>

JohnGraybeal: Registry: information system on which a register is maintained; facilitates accessibility and 
storage for the registry. (I assume this means the computer(s) and operating system(s).)

RaviSharma: The link provided by Anders is very relevant illustration from W3c and ebXML site.    (17WN)