ppy/oor-call_chat-transcript_edited_20110325b.txt

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Chat transcript from room: oor_20110325
2011-03-25 GMT-08:00

[06:13] PeterYim: = OpenOntologyRepository: Architecture & API Workshop-III - Fri 2011_03_25 =

[06:00] anonymous TimDarr

[06:13] PeterYim: KenBaclawski and All: minutes of the last meeting adopted, as captured on the session page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11

[06:19] PeterYim: ref. KenBaclawski's documentation on "workflow" - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11#nid2PQH

[06:22] PeterYim: paper is at: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/oor/workflow.pdf and the API is at: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/oor/workflowAPI.pdf

[06:41] PeterYim: ref. use cases documentation, see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases

[06:41] PeterYim: OOR use cases, in particular, see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/OOR-Use-Cases/oor-usecase-v2.xml

[06:59] PeterYim: Ken and Todd ... if you could capture some of the conversation into the chat for the records, that would be great!

[07:02] ToddSchneider: The architecture diagram on http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture/Candidate03 has been updated to the 11 March 2011 changes.

[07:03] ToddSchneider: Definition: Workflow = a sequence of possible actions that can be undertaken in the system

[07:03] ToddSchneider: The OOR supports a multiplicity of workflows

[07:05] ToddSchneider: Registrar - Human Role: 0) Approves workflows or change thereto; 1) Approves workflow stewards (for a community)

[07:05] KenBaclawski: The problem of the granularity of registration is a continuing issue. While there is general agreement that the granule (administered item) should be an ontology version (or ontology module version) as well as associated item such as mappings, configurations, this clashes somewhat with the OOR API that we have right now (based on BioPortal) which has methods for updating ontologies.

[07:11] KenBaclawski: To allow the OOR to develop independently of BioPortal while at the same time taking advantage of the continuing development of BioPortal, I suggested that the Workflow component act as a facade (in the sense of design patterns) over the BioPortal core.

[08:11] PeterYim: I'm exiting the chat-room now, therefore, any further input will not be in the chat-transcript I'll be posting (try communicating it on the list or the wiki, then, please, if there is any.)

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