Re: [EarthScienceOntolog] Session topics and co-chairs for each

["Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, all, for the many comments and proposed topics. I would underscore Peter’s suggestion that people who are interested in chairing or participating in sessions, please place their own suggestion(s) either within the emerging program framework or tweak that framework. The current state of our series is at the wiki page Peter created: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized. You can also add your ideas directly to the wiki at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized#nid3D77, so that we capture all suggestions and begin to plan this out.

 

Krishna and I will come up with a short mission statement for mini-series soon, and begin to flesh out the first session, currently entitled “Value Proposition of Ontology and Semantic Technology for the Earth Science Community".

 

Here’s 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 isssues, 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.

 

What do people think? If this seems reasonable, we would like to have some panelists from both communities: Geo-Science and Ontology/Semantics. Volunteers and suggestions are most welcome.

 

Thanks,

Leo

 

From: mini-series-org-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mini-series-org-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Yim
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:52 PM
To: Krzysztof Janowicz
Cc: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series Planning
Subject: Re: [EarthScienceOntolog] Session topics and co-chairs for each

 

That sounds great, Krzysztof ... would you consider fitting that content into the program framework as we have it so far (ref my earlier msg today on this thread), or tweaking that framework to allow a better fit?

Regards. =ppy
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On Jul 19, 2012 1:52 PM, "Krzysztof Janowicz" <jano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear all,

if this would be interesting, I could organize a session on semantic
interoperability and semantic heterogeneity.

Best,
Jano

On 07/19/2012 01:41 PM, Dalia E Varanka wrote:
> I apologize that I am having trouble accessing the wiki but I am at the iaoa sunner school in trento. It is so good I am inspired to ask if I may cochair the tutorials session. I know j Wilson and the usgs did a tutori too but I will ask others first
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Yim [peter.yim@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07/19/2012 11:01 AM MST
> To: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series Planning <mini-series-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [EarthScienceOntolog] Session topics and co-chairs for each
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> Thank you, dalia.
>
> Yes, doing (what is numbered now) 4 before 3 would make a lot of sense.
>
> By the way, I did have an offline request from NaicongLi to keep
> Session-2 on Thu 2012_09_06
>
> Based on the above (and barring further tweaks) ... we now have:
>
> 1. Value propositions (needs, criteria, use case scenarios, benefits, etc.)
> 2. Existing successful applications (perhaps as a case studies) -
> including: Spatial Decision Support, ... (offers/suggestions
> solicited)
> 3. Methodologies: including, what *is* semantics, image approaches, etc.
> 4. Review of the field of ontologies for earth science (and existing ontologies)
> 5. Tutorials
>
> I have updated the wiki page accordingly too.
> see under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized#nid3DB8
>
> Note also the update by Naicong (on the wiki) that we now have Gary
> Berg-Cross and  Naicong Li co-chairing session-2.
>
>
> ALL - actions:
>
> 1.  please adopt your session (I am assuming that each and every
> member of this organizing committee will be taking on some
> championship role.)
>
> 2.  please suggest speakers (including yourselves) with
> name/title/abstract of presentation. We can compile a list of those
> and start fitting them into the appropriate session(s).
>
>
> Thanks & regards. =ppy
> --
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Dalia E Varanka <dvaranka@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think there may be redundacies among points 2 + 3 and perhaps 4 should appear sooner. This draft outline needs to be refined.
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Peter Yim [peter.yim@xxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 07/18/2012 11:01 AM MST
>> To: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series Planning <mini-series-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [EarthScienceOntolog] Session topics and co-chairs for each
>>
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>>
>> Dalia & All,
>>
>>
>> Great suggestions, Dalia, thanks!
>>
>> I have posted your input to the "GettingOrganized" wiki page
>> under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized#nid3DB8
>>
>> Please consider the following tweaks (to 1 & 2) ...
>>
>> 1. Value propositions (needs, criteria, use case scenarios, benefits, etc.)
>> 2. Existing successful applications (perhaps as a case studies) -
>> including: Spatial Decision Support, ... (offers/suggestions
>> solicited)
>> 3. Review of the field of ontologies for earth science (and existing ontologies)
>> 4. Methodologies: including, what *is* semantics, image approaches, etc.
>> 5. Tutorials
>>
>>
>> ALL - action:
>>
>> AA. please provide further input - tweaks, enhancements, finer grain
>> details, etc.
>>
>> BB. if you like to champion (or find a partner and co-champion) either
>> one of the sessions, please step up and "adopt" it.
>>
>>
>> Thanks & regards. =ppy
>> --
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Dalia E Varanka <dvaranka@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Here is a possible order of sessions:
>>>
>>> 1. Value propositions (needs, criteria, etc.)
>>> 2. Spatial Decision Support (perhaps as a case study)
>>> 3. Review of the field of ontologies for earth science (and existing
>>> ontologies)
>>> 4. Methodologies: including, what *is* semantics, image approaches, etc.
>>> 5. Tutorials
>>
>>> -----mini-series-org-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: -----
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>>> To: mini-series-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent by: mini-series-org-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Date: 07/17/2012 11:09PM
>>> Subject: [EarthScienceOntolog] Session topics and co-chairs for each
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>>
>>> The suggestion that this mini-series be made up of 4 to 5 sessions
>>> makes perfect sense (ref.
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized#nid3D7B
>>> ).
>>>
>>> Besides the topic for the kick-off session, we still need to identify,
>>> say 4 more topics (session titles) and to sequence them coherently.
>>> Here's a draft calendar:
>>>
>>> Session-1: Thu 2012_08_09 - co-chairs: KrishnaSinha & LeoObrst -
>>> "Value Proposition of Ontology and Semantic Technology for the Earth
>>> Science Community"
>>>
>>> Session-2: Thu 2012_09_06 - co-chairs: ?? & ?? - " ??? "
>>>
>>> Session-3: Thu 2012_10_11 - co-chairs: ?? & ?? - " ??? "
>>>
>>> Session-4: Thu 2012_11_08 - co-chairs: ?? & ?? - " ??? "
>>>
>>> Session-5: Thu 2012_12_06 - co-chairs: ?? & ?? - " ??? "
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are some of the suggested topics so far  ... (in no particular
>>> order, I may also have missed some, so please add ...)
>>>
>>> * [KrzysztofJanowicz / PascalHitzler] Value proposition
>>> ** [NaicongLi / KrishnaSinha] how can Ontologies help address the need
>>> of resource organization, discovery and access, interoperability among
>>> the resources.
>>>
>>> * [GaryBergCross] suggest to have a presentation on how the SDS team
>>> went about developing the ontologies as well as demoing the SDS
>>> Knowledge Portal. (by NaicongLi)
>>>
>>> * [KrishnaSinha] enumerating existing ontologies applicable to geo science
>>>
>>> * [KrishnaSinha] how do we evaluate these existing ontologies?
>>>
>>> * [GaryBergCross] methodologies that would provide benefits
>>>
>>> * [PascalHitzler] tutorials to provide the targeted audience with
>>> further insights into semantic technologies
>>> ** [GaryBergCross]help earth scientists better understand what "semantics"
>>> is
>>> ** [NancyWiegand] semantic tutorials regarding geospatial data ... we
>>> could add earth science examples. (by JamesWilson et al.)
>>> ** [NancyWiegand] how to represent earth science data as linked  data,
>>> especially remote sensing or sensor type data. Maybe this has been
>>> done already.
>>>
>>>
>>> Actions:
>>>
>>> 1. Please suggest more topics
>>>
>>> 2. please suggest how we should best sequence them into 4 more
>>> sessions (after the kick-off session)
>>>
>>> 3. please team up (say, two to three co-chairs per session) and
>>> "adopt" your favorite topic/session which you team will start to
>>> co-champion.
>>>
>>> 4. suggest panelists for particular topics.
>>>
>>>
>>> Look forward to hear from everyone between now and this Friday.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks & regards. =ppy
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Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
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