OpenOntologyRepository Plan/ShortTermPlan Strawman0805

OpenOntologyRepository_Plan: Short Term Plan (May-2008)    (1IAL)

This is a scratch workspace for the short-term planning sub-team.    (1IAU)

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Notes from the 2008.05.30 12:00pm EDT conference call    (1IAM)

Conference call details:    (1IAN)

• Friday 2008.05.30 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT    (1IAO)
• Dial-in No. 605-475-8500    (1IAP)
• Conference ID: "5184691#"    (1IAQ)
• Attendees: MikeDean, LeoObrst, PeterYim    (1IAR)

Proceedings:    (1IAT)

1. Start with the federation aspects    (1IAS)

• Mike: BBN plans to invest some resources into the OOR project    (1IBB)
• Mike will put some thought into this before the next OOR-team call    (1IBC)
• federating BioPortal & XMDR at the start    (1IBD)
• including thoughts on:    (1IBE)
  • ontology life cycle    (1IBF)
  • OMV    (1IBG)
  • GRDDL    (1IBH)

2. Language support:    (1IBI)

• not just for the semantic web    (1IBJ)
• OWL and Common Logic would be good starters    (1IBK)
• other modules added as groups get motivated to contribute    (1IBL)

3. Infrastructure:    (1IBM)

• Peter to prepare the infrastructure    (1IBN)
  • Linux (CentOS)    (1IBO)
  • mysql    (1IBP)
  • tomcat (java)    (1IBQ)

• using SemWebCentral (http://SemWebCentral.org) as a repository for the development work    (1IBR)

4. Engaging participants:    (1IBS)

• have panel sessions again (that seems to have an effective way to engage people)    (1IBT)

• stand up a repository for early adopters    (1IBU)
  • caveat: don't put your only copy of the ontology there yet    (1IBV)

• 3 meeting per month - Fridays (starting at our OOR regular time: 9:00am PDT / 12:00pm EDT / 16:00 UTC )    (1IBW)
  • one for system and software development    (1IBX)
  • one for ontology repository content development    (1IBY)
  • one for planning/admin    (1IBZ)

• plan one panel session for the BioPortal-XMDR-Software-Infrastructure folks ASAP    (1IC0)
  • try for Fri 2008.06.13 or 2008.06.20    (1IC1)

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 notes by Peter / 2008.05.30-10:02
 Mike & Leo: please review and add/edit as appropriate    (1IC2)

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Short Term Planning subgroup conference call of Tue 2008.06.24    (1JQX)

Conference call details:    (1JQY)

• Date/time: Tue 2008.06.24 - 1 Hr. starting 4:00pm EDT / 1:00pm PDT    (1JQZ)
• Dial-in No. 605-475-8590    (1IAP)
• Conference ID: "5823120#"    (1IAQ)
• Attendees: LeoObrst, MarkMusen, MikeDean & PeterYim    (1JR0)
  • regrets: BruceBargmeyer & PatHayes    (1JS7)

Agenda & Meeting Notes:    (1JR1)

0. Appoint chair and scribe; roll call & confirm agenda.    (1JRD)

• Mike chairs, Peter will take notes    (1JRE)

1. What will the first phase roll out of OOR be supporting    (1JR3)

• OWL, CL    (1JR4)
• RDF, SKOS, OWL, CL    (1JR5)
• XML, RDF, SKOS, OWL, CL    (1JR6)

• Mike: let people vote with their code    (1JRF)
  • RDF/OWL, CL - almost out minimal set    (1JRG)
  • XML & SKOS is something we might want to discuss - definitely a valuable addition    (1JRH)
  • have uploaded 'prototype' to SemWebCentral ... have added a SKOS placeholder already    (1JRI)

• Mark: working with LexGrid which is dealing with most of the legacy contents in biomedical informatics    (1JRJ)
  • moving forward SNOMAD folks will move to OWL    (1JRK)
  • federating with LexGrid is valuable -- which is what BioPortal is doing    (1JRL)
  • offering to have BioPortal offering the components that it is already working on for OOR, allowing OOR to seek funding for other pieces, like CL, federation, ... etc.    (1JRM)
  • releasing BioPortal v2.0 on 08-Aug-2008    (1JRN)

• Leo: think EU participation and other related efforts    (1JRO)
  • OMV ... Mark, we'll be using an extended version of it    (1JRP)
  • LARC & ..?.    (1JRQ)

• Mark: note also - FrankHartel's TOP (Terminology Open Portal)    (1JRY)

• CL    (1JRS)
  • need Pat in the conversation    (1JRU)
  • Reasoner, COE (visualizer), ...    (1JRT)

• XML    (1JRZ)
  • need Bruce for this conversation    (1JS0)
  • other XML regrep folks we want to get involved (now that Farrukh has decided to play a more oberserving role)?    (1JRR)

2. What disparate technologies do we have got to start with?    (1JR7)

3. How do we integrate the above (2.)?    (1JR8)

4. Short Term action plan:    (1JR9)

• Mark: Mike and Benjamin should have a conversation - Mark will put them in touch    (1JRV)
  • see also: http://alpha.bioportal.org    (1JRW)
• Peter: get BioPortal, CODS and Mike's UI into the (new) cim3 server    (1JRX)
• need to define different roles - have the Use Cases subgroup help    (1JS1)

5. Get initial consensus on a date for the "Synergies & Gaps" panel discussion session    (1JRA)

• Mike: try also to have people (current repository operators) describe their webservice interfaces    (1JS2)

• tentative: Fri 2008.08.15 - 2Hr starting 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT (preferred)    (1JS3)
• alternate : Fri 2008.08.08 - 2Hr starting 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT    (1JS4)

6. Any other business    (1JRB)

7. Next meeting / Adjournment    (1JRC)

• try to get all here (and your development crew), Bruce and Pat too, to join us at the OOR-team call on 11-Aug-2008    (1JS5)

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 Notes taken by PeterYim / 2008.06.24-2:03pm
 All attendees: please review and add/edit as appropriate    (1JR2)

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Short Term Planning subgroup conference call of Tue 2008.08.26    (1L61)

Conference call details:    (1L62)

• Date/time: Tue 2008.08.26 - 30 min. starting 5:00pm EDT / 2:00pm PDT    (1L63)
• Dial-in No. 605-475-8590    (1L64)
• Conference ID: "5823120#"    (1L65)
• Attendees: (expecting) LeoObrst, MarkMusen, MikeDean, BruceBargmeyer & PeterYim    (1L66)

(draft) Agenda & Meeting Notes:    (1L67)

1. Moving forward - post "OOR-dev: Synergies & Gaps" session (ConferenceCall_2008_08_22)    (1L68)

• did the panel session help clarify the situation for everyone?    (1L69)

• what are barriers to a collaborative efforts now and how can we overcome them    (1L6A)

• our approach, moving forward    (1L6B)

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 Notes taken by PeterYim / 2008.08.26-_____pm
 All attendees: please review and add/edit as appropriate    (1JR2)