ppy/oor_session-transcript_edited_20121120b.txt ------ Chat transcript from room: oor_20121120 2012-11-20 GMT-08:00 ------ [07:32] PeterYim: 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''' {nid 3I95} 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: PeterYim (co-chair), KenBaclawski (co-chair), MichaelGruninger, ToddSchneider, MikeDean, FrankOlken. == Proceedings: == [07:33] PeterYim: (current) attendees: KenBaclawski, MichaelGruninger, PeterYim, ToddSchneider [07:33] MichaelGruninger: Today is the start of the Toronto Ontology Festival (TOFFEE 2012) featuring three seminars by OliverKutz [07:53] FrankOlken: @MichaelGruninger Is there a web page for Toronto Ontology Festival (TOFFEE 2012)? Will papers / slides / videos be posted to web? ... MichaelGruninger: the event is informal, but papers will be posted on the web (later) [07:44] FrankOlken: == speaking of talks at ISWC last week. [07:37] KenBaclawski: 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] FrankOlken: Ken, SAP would participate via its labs in Germany, US, or Korea? [07:39] FrankOlken: Ken said SAP Germany. [07:43] ToddSchneider: Natural ontology? [07:43] FrankOlken: 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] FrankOlken: Papers from International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) are located on the program page, e.g., http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/research-papers [07:46] FrankOlken: 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] FrankOlken: The main site for CEUR (a list of proceedings) is: http://ceur-ws.org/ [07:47] FrankOlken: Next year ISWC will be located in Sydney, Australia. [07:49] FrankOlken: IOS Press was selling FOIS proceedings and also STIDS proceedings. (Very expensive). [07:50] FrankOlken: Also, Enrico Motta (Italy) was demoing a system for analyzing and visualizing social networks related to citation networks. [07:53] MichaelGruninger: Ontology Matching uses the testing environment from the SEALS project (Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale) http://www.seals-project.eu [07:59] ToddSchneider: If OOR supports patterns, will that require a more sophisticated 'classification' mechanism? In particular, how will search/find capabilities be impacted? [08:02] KenBaclawski: 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] FrankOlken: Some of the talks at ISWC (keynotes?) were videotaped and will be posted (somewhere) on the web. [08:34] MikeDean: 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] PeterYim: 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] FrankOlken: Peter: RDA NSF program officer: Bob Chadduck (Bob is receptive to working with us too) [07:59] FrankOlken: Research Data Alliance http://rd-alliance.org/ [08:00] FrankOlken: the coming RDA Launch and Plenary Meeting in Gothenburg on March 18-20 2013. [08:06] FrankOlken: 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] FrankOlken: The international launch and first plenary of the RDA will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in March of 2013. [08:10] FrankOlken: Research Data Alliance October 1-3, 2012 Westin Arlington Gateway meeting agenda and slides http://d2i.indiana.edu/data2012/ResearchDataAlliance [08:12] PeterYim: == back to our main discussion: ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_20#nid3IG3 [08:12] PeterYim: 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 OntologySummit2013, (3IG4) (ii) the OntologyBasedStandards initiative, and (3IG5) (iii) IAOA, ... to provide synergies for all. (3IG6) [08:15] MichaelGruninger: One possible topic might be the area around data curation and ontology quality [08:15] PeterYim: see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit/Suggestions [08:23] KenBaclawski: 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] PeterYim: Peter / Michael: consolidate various existing Ontology-Standards efforts into the OntologyBasedStandards initiative [08:24] FrankOlken: Steve Ray (CMU Silicon Valley) is interested in the use of ontologies for Smart Grid data exchange standards. [08:25] MichaelGruninger: 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] PeterYim: think: ontology for research & conference papers [08:31] PeterYim: Ken / Peter / Michael: IAOA would be in a great position to take leadership and make it a mandate [08:33] PeterYim: == next meeting: [08:33] PeterYim: no OOR meeting on Tue Nov-27 [08:35] PeterYim: 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] PeterYim: by then, we will have more news about OntologySummit2013 [08:36] PeterYim: -- session ended: 8:33am PST -- [08:36] List of attendees: FrankOlken, KenBaclawski, MichaelGruninger, MikeDean, PeterYim, ToddSchneider. -------