Minutes from Friday’s
SOCoP Meeting Nov. 18, 2011 from 11:00 - 12:00 EDT
Attendees-Participants: Gary Berg-Cross
(Knowledge Strategies), John Moeller (JJ Moeller & Associates LLC), Nancy
Wiegand (U of Wisconsin), Peter Yim (CIM3), James Wilson (JMU), Dalia Varanka
(USGS), Naijun Zhou (UMd)
The meeting
started with a brief update on free conference call bridge from CIM3 using ITS2:
Phone
(US): +1 (206) 402-0100
Backup
nbr: (415) 671-4335 and
a
Skype: joinconference
When
prompted enter the PIN: 141184#
PSTN, Mobile and Skype
callers will be supported (free of additional charge; but long distance call to
reach the bridge
is on the call, no charge for people connecting in from skype.) 100 callers
(all three types combined) is the max.
The following 6 topics were
then discussed.
1.
Status on 2nd Fall Workshop at USGS (Dec. 2)
Gary
reviewed the agenda, which was 80% complete and subsequent to the meeting was
finalized and is now on the registration site - http://4thannualsocopworkshop.eventbrite.com/
We did not get an NGA presentation but added Phil Yang at
GMU (who James contacted) to talk about CyberGIS and semantic architectures
that is relevant to us. Josh Liebermann can also give a talk.
There was discussion of further advertizing of the site and
contacting people like Peter Fox who should be aware of our workshop. James may
send him an email and Gary would provide a copy of the agenda. Other people to
contact included Li Ding, who has moved from RPI and Peggy Agouris at GMU who John
might contact.
Gary will contact Todd Pehle
(who is planning on attending) about the LoD community. Another possibly to get
the word out is to contact George Thomas. We should also advertize at
SemTechEast. We should get the revised agenda to interested parties such as we did last year
including:
- FGDC
-
USGIF tech committee’ and
- OGC
-
The Ontolog and SOCoP forums
Gary provided registration counts, which were going well and
should provide an audience of similar size to last year. As of Nov. 23 there
were 51 people registered (38 attendees and 13 call ins).
2.
January meeting with NSF
The
INTEROP annual review will be at the end of January (25th-27th) in
Indianapolis. It is not yet sure what
the agenda is and who needs to attend. But
we need to plan for what accomplishments we can show and Nancy has asked each
co-PI to provide a plan and summary on activities, materials and
accomplishments before Thanksgiving.
What can
be made concrete by January 15? It would
be great if we could show Demo. Nancy
would coordinate with Mike and Dave for OOR and Snoogle as demos. Perhaps Nancy
can show screenshots using ontology at OOR and maybe Snoogle.
Education
is another area to make progress on. What audience would we target (GIS
professional as well as students – each would have different materials). Nancy
thought that we might be able set up topics within the existing BoK concepts,
but a question was where would our material fit in?
There
were differing opinion on that. Nancy suggests standalone that could be a handbook/manual
of materials. James and Gary laid out a plan for creating a sub-area and cross
referencing to existing material showing how it conceptually relates.
James
mentioned that he had gone to a workshop that covered VA emergency Response
Dept. (Bryant Crumpler & Angela Wills) and
they could help with a Use Case. Crumpler is coming to the
workshop.
Gary’ discussed
a strategy for developing material for year 2 workshops. This would then evolve based on feedback and
additions to full educational material by the end of Year 3.
James’s Spring
course is a go and we can be guest lectures for the course which would help us
build material and get feedback for improvement.
James also
mentioned the possibility that there would be a web broadcast Telepresnence for
the course. This would allow us to capture
video and then edit it to a refined form.
James
also mentioned that he may get a CS student to do a program and web page
development.
3. John’s list of
events in DC area.
There
remains a question of what would we do at these. When would we be ready to present
at these communities? Gary suggested
that we need contact points and a plan.
4.
OOR & BioPortal
Peter noted that the BioPortal
has released it’s new version and it is being debugged. Mike intends to host a version at BBN when it
is ready and will set up SOCoP INTEROP
instance. We are still invited people to put ontologies on the existing Sandbox
as a test and can mention this at the workshops. Hopefully the SOCoP instance
will be ready.
Gary thought that there
would be 2 types of uploads – a small,
perhaps local ontology and a full set of modular ontology like DUL and SWEET.
There remains a question of how to group large ontologies that consist of many
modules. Once we have solved this issue we might connect some of the local
ontologies to the existing modules. An
example might be connecting a local watershed module to an existing hydrology
module in SWEET.
5. Plans SemTechEast Tuesday the 29th
Nancy’s slides are complete.
Mike and Gary will be attending to help with the workshop. Wherecom conf
– and un-conference session
6.
About WhereCon and an Unconference Afternoon
John Moeller provided an update on this 2 ½ day conference:
WhereCon was established to satisfy the
growing desire for a new dialogue on the synergies location-enabled and
place-based streams of activity are bringing to historically stove-piped public
and private sector domains. The question of “Where?” is increasingly becoming
the organizing principal for how public and private sector enterprises get
their jobs done.
WhereCon will cultivate the emerging
community of leaders, thinkers and practitioners who are struggling with the
changes posed by the emerging “location-awareness” that portends great change
for the public policy, private enterprise, technology and strategy – regardless
of the sector from which they hail.
WhereCon is a 2 ½ day conference seeking
to attract a broad cross-section of industry leaders, federal, state and local
government employees, contractors, vendors and public policy professionals from
think tanks and NGOs.
WhereCon consolidates
the blinding array of conversations about the “power of place” going on across
the public and private sector, enabling this community to better enjoy
synergies only this forum can provide.
WhereCon is sponsoring a place-based
unconference on the afternoon of April 2012 as the conclusion to this
multi-community event. The WhereCon Executive Committee invites any
interested party to propose hosting a geospatial, place-based focused
unconference event. In keeping with the spirit of WhereCon the
Executive Committee is looking for unconference events which explore geospatial/place-based
interests in an open-community, collaborative manner. WhereCon will
provide space in the Washington DC Convention Center along with snacks and
beverages for afternoon break.
Unconference events can take place
between 1:00 - 8:00 PM on Thursday April 12, 2012. There will be no cost
to attend or to host an unconference event which is accepted by the Executive
Committee. WhereCon attendees will be invited to participate in all
unconference events along with any other participants. Hosts of WhereCon
unconference events are expected to organize, coordinate and facilitate their
event. The WhereCon Committee will publicize unconference events as part
of its website and other planned publicity and media activities.
Unconference hosts will be expected to do any additional publicity or outreach
they feel are necessary.
Any questions and proposals should be
directed to:
Greg Buehler
Program Co-Chair – OGC
gbuehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Office +1 812 334 0601
Mobile: +1 812 327 6960
John Moeller
Program Co-Chair – USGIF
mailto:jjmoeller@xxxxxxx
Mobile +1 202-494-2671
John thought that someone might step up and help organize
the unconference.
In addition if we attend it will be good to advertize our
effort.
The
next SOCoP meeting is targeted for Dec. 21, 2011.
--
Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.
NSF INTEROP Project
SOCoP Executive Secretary
Knowledge Strategies
Potomac, MD
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