SOCoP Meeting Minutes from Wednesday SOCoP Meeting July 20, 2011 from 11:00 - 12:00 EDT

Attendees-Participants: Gary Berg-Cross (Knowledge Strategies), Nancy Wiegand (U of Wisconsin), Naijun Zhou, Krzysztof Janowicz, Mike Dean and Dave Kolas (BBN)  

1. NSF
There was no still update on a visit from Mimi McClure, who remains busy by all report.
The group discussed organizing efforts for the NSF annual report. It was agreed that we should do a combined report.  We need to be use to send our posts to the same report.

The group looked at the NSF Fastlane system to see what categories the report requires.  The group was not sure if we are looking at the same pages and content, so Naijun added test content which others could see.

We may need to ask someone about how this works – how much individual and group reporting can be done. It has so many different categories that it is confusing. For example under Participants there are Activities and Findings broken down into four categories: 
1.	Describe the major research and education activities of the project. 
2.	Describe the major findings resulting from these activities. 
3.	Describe the opportunities for training, development and mentoring provided by your project. 
4.	Describe outreach activities your project has undertaken. 
So Nancy may go through all of these categories and questions and work out an outline from that which she may send us.

Participants should say which parts we would each do. Someone should take the lead in each part. So Dave might do findings about GeoSparql, while James can start an outline on Education, opportunities for training, development and mentoring provided by the project. 
Naijun can lead a write-up on the Demo and Web Site
Mike can discuss the repository and Gary might have a variety of contributions including from the VoCamp workshop and Wiki content.

The suggested time frame as to start the week of July 25 and complete the report in a couple of weeks. This might be around August 12 -19.  

2. Workshops

Spatial Semantics and Ontology 
The status of the Nov Spatial Semantics and Ontology (SSO) Workshop (at ACM SIGSPatial) was discussed. Nancy noted that the first call for papers for our went out with due date around July 21. We are still making some modifications to dates as we go along. One paper was submitted. Krzysztof asked about extending the deadline one week to get the most submissions and give us 3 weeks tine for people to decide where to go (SSO or Terra Cognita). We also talked about getting the word out. Dalia recently send the CFP  to an AAG remote sensing group, but probably not the GIS and Cyberinfrastructure group.  Naijun will email these. Gary will contact John about getting it out to other venues. Krzysztof  asked if it was  on the Semantic Web mailing group?  The answer was no, so he will (has) put it there. 

Dalia is looking into doing a special issue based on the session papers and there remains open questions about doing posters.  Nancy thought it fine, but we might inform people that they are allowed to do this. We didn’t put it into the CFP. Dalia asked Marcus if any accommodations (poster boards or weasels, or some other sort of supporting framework) would be available that may be available for the display of posters during ACM Sigspatial workshops. She also asked if there would any extra costs and if 
the meeting rooms are big enough to have posters set up.

CyberGIS
The group discussed plans for the CyberGIS meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL Knoxville ,TN) on Sept 28-30th.  Nancy was still undecided, but thought that we should go there if we can figure out how to cooperate with them and how they might cooperate with us.  

James said we could craft as much or little as we want and maybe have a formal presentation. Mike could present something on Ontology development, show OOR and GeoSPARQL ontology.  We could perhaps discuss and show our methods for workshops. Or we might do a workshop there. 

Two reasons it would be nice to go is that we could have an all hands meeting for ourselves to do planning activities and maybe meet with NSF officials. We are supposed to have some meetings at NSF, but this may finesse this and/or invite Mimi.

Gary asked about other INTEROP projects. There are a dozen or so and Peter Fox at RPI has a related one. Gary has contacted Peter about sharing use cases, data and ontologies and he is interested and will send links so that Gary can look at some of the posted work.
The action item is to read up on his grant and what they are doing to decide how we would cooperate. One suggestion is that we take some of his light ontologies which have prototype implementations and improve theme where there are issues.

SemTechEast 
Nancy is still planning for the Nov. SemTechEast presentation.  The issue is that they asked us to cover CoP.  Also Brand has a meeting (Ontologies and Gov) at the same time. We need to send slide deck on the CoP in August. Because of costs we might have limited representation, but Mike will be there at another session.  

Terra Cognita 
Dave said that things are where they should be right now for Terra Cognita: Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web, in conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011). It is being held October 23-24, 2011, Bonn, Germany:

Workshop website: http://asio.bbn.com/terracognita2011/
ISWC website: http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/
There is little wiggle room for papers. 

3. Web Site development Plan

Naijun and Gary have been discussing plans to create a better front page and functionality for the site.  Peter had suggested using the Semantic Media Wiki for this, but no decisions have been made. More details should be available at the next meeting.

The next SOCoP meeting is targeted for August 17, 2011.