EarthScienceOntolog: Getting Organized (3CXK)
This is a scratch workspace for the organization, coordination and planning of the Joint EarthCube-Ontolog Mini-series. (3CX8)
Theme: "Ontology and Semantic Technology for the Earth Science Community" (3CX9)
- Organizing committee workspaces and archives: (3CXA)
- Discussion Archives: (for organizing) http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/mini-series-org/ (3CXB)
- Wiki workspace: (for organizing) EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized ... (i.e. this page) (3CXC)
- Mini-series content workspaces and archives: (3CXD)
- Wiki homepage for the mini-series: EarthScienceOntolog (3CXE)
- Shared-File Workspace: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/EarthScienceOntolog/ (3CXF)
EarthScienceOntolog Organizing Committee Meetings: (3CXG)
- Founding meeting - ConferenceCall_2012_06_21 (3CXH)
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Candidate Session Schedule & Program: (3DB8)
Input: PeterYim / 2012.07.17; DaliaVaranka / 2012.07.18; (3DB9)
- Session-1: Thu 2012_08_09 - co-chairs: KrishnaSinha & LeoObrst - "Value Proposition of Ontology and Semantic Technology for the Earth Science Community" (3DBA)
- 1-content: Value propositions (needs, criteria, use case scenarios, benefits, etc.) (3DBF)
- LeoObrst: some initial thoughts - At our first planning session, Krishna thought it very important that the Geo-Science community and the Ontology / Semantics community come together and begin to understand each other better. So this first session could probably have some geo-scientists discussing needs, use cases, etc., from their perspective, i.e., what are the problems facing the Geo-Science community, e.g., data access and discovery issues, impeding terminology differences, changing collaboration models, etc. Then some ontologists / semantic technologists could respond to those issues and offer what they see as the value proposition to Geo-Science. This kind of discussion (joined in by the session participants in Q&A and in chat) could lay the foundation for the remaining sessions, give us all some initial common understanding. (3DBR)
- Session-2: Thu 2012_09_06 - co-chairs: NaicongLi & GaryBergCross - " ??? " (3DBB)
- 2-content: Existing successful applications (perhaps as a case studies) (3DBL)
- 1) Spatial Decision Support ontology and application (perhaps as a case study for using ontologies to organize resources (data, models and tools, cases studies), and to facilitate resource discovery and access, as well as for formalizing the content of a knowledge domain) (3DBG)
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- 2-content: Existing successful applications (perhaps as a case studies) (3DBL)
- Session-3: Thu 2012_10_11 - co-chairs: ?? & ?? - " ??? " (3DBC)
- 3-content: Methodologies: including, what *is* semantics, image approaches, etc. (3DBH)
- Session-4: Thu 2012_11_08 - co-chairs: ?? & ?? - " ??? " (3DBD)
- 4-content: Review of the field of ontologies for earth science (and existing ontologies) (3DBI)
- Session-5: Thu 2012_12_06 - co-chairs: DaliaVaranka & ?? - " ??? " (3DBE)
- 5-content: Tutorials (3DBJ)
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Collected Ideas: (3CXI)
Goals, objectives, expectations - various ideas about the mini-series that have been floated during the 2012_06_21 meeting and the email exchange preceding that - ref. (3CXJ)
- KrishnaSinha: we need to reach out to the Geo Science community - where is the common theme that both the Geo Science community and the Ontology and Semantic Technology community can address together and start developing potential partnerships. Effectively, what can Ontology do for the Geo Scientists? From my perspective, we have to debate two things: (i) the enumeration of existing ontologies applicable to geo science, and (ii) how do we evaluate these existing ontologies. (3D6X)
- GaryBergCross: Two goals I would suggest for the series is to clarify the issues and help formulate early steps to help manage overall risk ... and possibly even to EXPAND the community of semantic researchers and ontologists that participate in the EarthCube discussion. (3D6Y)
- NaicongLi: One of the EarthCube initiatives is to facilitate sharing of resources such as data, models and tools. Ontologies can help address the need of resource organization, discovery and access, interoperability among the resources. This could be one of the themes in the mini series. (3D6Z)
- KrishnaSinha: totally agree ... possibly investigating or demonstrating how semantics could make it very easy to share data, and allowing downstream activities easy to implement. We want to identify semantic capabilities for geoscientists. (3D70)
- GaryBergCross: I think that we should have a mini series (4-5 sessions) like you did for SemanticWiki from Nov 2011 to March 2012. (3D71)
- GaryBergCross: I would go beyond KrishnaSinha 2 areas or say that they can be addressed within a series that includes a discussion of issues such as methodologies that would provide benefits. (3D72)
- GaryBergCross: we probably want to help earth scientists better understand what "semantics" is - we need time to explicate it and this takes more time than what the EarthCube charrette allowed (e.g. explaining what it takes to develop an adequate vocabulary for a domain science). (3D73)
- PascalHitzler: assuming EarthCube'rs who are looking for further insights into semantic technologies are the target audience, then we could be looking at a set of tutorials (3D74)
- KrzysztofJanowicz: [consensus] First session August 9th, 2012 on the value proposition of semantics for the EarthCube community (highlighting the immediate added value without technical detail or technical language.) (3D75)
- PeterYim: we should also try to differentiate this activity from, say, nominal EarthCube "Semantics and Ontologies" working group activities ... and capitalize on what the Ontolog community or infrastructure can provide, that would bring value to this collaboration. (3D76)
More ideas and suggestions: (3D77)
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- [PeterYim / 2012.07.10] - we need a short (say, a couple of paragraphs) description for this, where we would lay out our "Objectives and Goals" for the mini-series. (3D7A)
- [PeterYim / 2012.07.10] - Going forward from here - the suggestion (by Gary) of having 4 to 5 sessions in the mini-series sounds good (3D7B)
- timing is almost perfect - if we do one session per month (near the beginning of each month), Aug-2012 thru Dec-2012 will give us time for 5 sessions (and then Ontolog will get into their very busy "OntologySummit" season, which will capture almost everyone's energy and imagination for the next 4~5 months. (3D7C)
- we probably want to lay out the topic for each of the remaining 4 session (we've already got the first session topic, the one scheduled for Aug-9) (3D7D)
- we have about 10 people in the organizing committee ... so, we might want to pair up, so that each two-person team will champion one of the sessions. (3D7E)
- [DaliaVaranka /2012.07.18] - One of the missing links (to close the gap on topics suggested above) is: "Needs and criteria for earth science semantic systems" (3DB6)
- [DaliaVaranka /2012.07.18] (at the IAOA Summer School in Trento, Italy) - We are hearing today about a very interesting earth science project KYOTO that maps the lexical WordNet's of 7 languages to an ecology/biodiversity ontology - see: http://weblab.iit.cnr.it/kyoto/xmlgroup.iit.cnr.it/kyoto/index.html (3DBZ)
- [KrzysztofJanowicz /2012.07.19] - I could organize a session on semantic interoperability and semantic heterogeneity. (3DC0)
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