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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2009-12-11 (23UF)

OpenOntologyRepository team conference call, Fri 2009-12-11, 1.0~1.5 Hr. call starting 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST / 6:00pm CET / 5:00pm GMT / 17:00 UTC (23UG)

Conference Call Details: (23UH)

Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 (24RB)
Start Time: 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST / 6:00pm CET / 5:00pm GMT / 17:00 UTC (24RC)
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Expected Call Duration: ~1.5 hours (24RE)
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RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated, ... or simply just by adding yourself to the "Expected Attendee" list below (if you are a member of the team.) (24RT)

This session, like all other Ontolog events, is open to the public. Information relating to this session is shared on this wiki page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_12_11 (24RU)

Please note that this session may be recorded, and if so, the audio archive is expected to be made available as open content, along with the proceedings of the call to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy. (24RV)

Attendees (24RW)

Attended: (24RX)
- MikeDean (chair) (24RY)
- PeterYim (24S0)
- KenBaclawski (2518)
- ToddSchneider (250U)
- YavuzEren (2519)
- Daniel Cerys (BBN / Raytheon) (2514)
- BartGajderowicz (2517)

Expecting: (24S1)
- LeoObrst (24RZ)
(24S2)
- ... if you are coming to the meeting, please add your name above (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail <peter.yim@cim3.com> so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ... (24S3)

Regrets: (24S4)

Agenda Ideas: (24S5)

please insert below (along with your name for follow-up purposes) (24S6)

OOR-sandbox installation progress review (24S7)
Discussion on the role OOR can play in OntologySummit2010 (24S8)
start thinking about driving the "content" front (24S9)
progress review on planned OOR-related events (24SA)
reports on member activities that are OOR-related (24SB)

... (24SC)

Agenda & Proceedings (24SD)

1. Meeting called to order: (24SE)

MikeDean takes the chair and welcome everyone (24SF)
PeterYim volunteers to take minutes of the meeting (24SG)

review and adopt agenda (24SH)

2. Roll Call: (24SI)

see above (24SJ)

(where applicable) ... welcome and intro of new member(s) (24SK)
- Daniel Cerys (BBN / Raytheon) (2515)

3. Status Review and Discussion: (24SL)

Urgent issues: (24SM)
- none (24SN)

Logistics and Communications (24SO)
- populate - OOR/ActiveMemberContribution (24SP)

Review of our priority list: (24SQ)
- 1. continue to push OOR development and get more contributors (24SR)
- 2. set up policies and process and policies for contributing to OOR work (24SS)
  - build out "gatekeeping" and move from just having an OOR-sandbox to having available instances of an OOR-sandbox and an OOR-production (24ST)
- 3. systematically solicit content contributions (24SU)
- 4. get the work funded (24SV)
- 5. regularly review requirements and existing standards to make sure we are on track (24SW)

Key items for discussion at this call: (24SX)
- OOR-sandbox installation progress review (24SY)
- Discussion on the role OOR can play in OntologySummit2010 (24SZ)
- start thinking about driving the "content" front (24T0)
- progress review on planned OOR-related events (24T1)
- reports on member activities that are OOR-related (24T2)

Mike: BBN-Raytheon will be standing up a copy of OOR and Dan Cerys (working out of Massachusetts) will be doing it. (251A)

OOR-sandbox installation progress review (251B)
- <oor-01f.cim3.net> with the updated version of BioPortal (251C)
- on re-deployment, we should have the "OOR-sandbox" label and the licensing correct (251D)
  - Tejas advised that the new install way be up later today (251E)
- Peter: when everyone is comfortable with the new install, we will remap the DNS to call that <oor-01.cim3.net> so the url would stay the same as before. (251F)

Ken / Yavuz: a usecase scenario development project at NEU is just starting, Yavuz is working on it (251L)
- please post an entry to the OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchActivity page (251M)

proposal for a ORES10 workshop at ESCW 2010 (end May 2010, Greece) was made by AlexGarcia, MathieuDaquin, KimViljanen & ChristophLange earlier this week (251N)
- we'll invite the organizer of the workshop to come tell us more about it (after the workshop proposal is formally accepted) maybe at our next OOR meeting (251O)

Discussion / 2009.12.11: OntologySummit2010 launched on 2009.12.10 (yesterday) (251P)
- (from previous meeting discussions:) what role can OOR (would want to) play? (24TH)
  - Mike: "OOR" as a means/tool to educate (24TI)
- Mike: if outreach and "educating the public" is part of the agenda, the folks who used to be on W3C's Best Practices and Deployment Working Group and Education and Outreach Interest Group will be good candidates to engage (24TJ)
- Peter / 2009.12.11: Discourse to be in 3 Tracks: Content, Quality, Professional-Context ... and each further broken down into "present" and "future" outlooks (251Q)
- Discussion: (251R)
  - we can suggest that everything (for the summit) should be ontology based, and then offer the OOR-sandbox to be a platform used by the summit participants (251S)
  - we could offer content (course module and/or training material) on ontology repositories and registries (251T)

Funding and proposals (24TQ)
- KenBaclawski submitted an proposal to STCI, jointly with PeterYim and MikeDean. (24TR)
  - Ken: our STCI proposal seems to have been declined by NSF; NEU has been re-organizing the Tech Transfer office, so the people handling our submission is not available any more (251G)
    - Ken will try to call the NSF program officer to find out (251H)
- PeterYim is involved in proposals that have OOR as one aspect, to the INTEROP and STCI programs with MarkMusen (24TS)
- CarlosRueda has submitted a proposal that has OOR as a key aspect. (24TT)
- Peter: (251I)
  - FrankOlken reminded people that NSF-CISE small proposals are due 2009.12.17 (251J)
  - also, a new NSF VOSS program solicitation (NSF 10-504)is out, and proposals are due 2010.01.25 - see: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10504/nsf10504.htm (251K)

Short term activity and action plans (24TU)

4. New Issues: (24TV)

5. Any Other Business: (24TW)

6. Action items: (24TX)

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: (24TY)

Next Meeting: (24TZ)
- next regular team call, same time, Fri 2010.01.08 - see details session page at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_01_08 (24U0)
  - no meeting on Fri 2009.12.25 due to the holidays (24U1)
- Note: earlier resolution: all team members please (if possible) block out Fridays 1.5 Hr starting 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT / 16:00 GMT/UTC (24U2)

Call adjourned at: 10:20 am PST (24U3)

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 notes taken by: PeterYim / 2009.12.11-10:20am PST
 All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.    (24U4)

Resources (24U5)

homepage - OpenOntologyRepository - http://OpenOntologyRepository.org (24U6)
proceedings of our previous meetings (24U7)
OOR Charter - To promote the global use and sharing of ontologies by: 1. establishing a hosted registry-repository; 2. enabling and facilitating open, federated, collaborative ontology repositories; 3. establishing best practices for expressing interoperable ontology and taxonomy work in registry-repositories. (24VD)
"Ontology Repository" Definition - "An ontology repository is a facility where ontologies and related information artifacts can be stored, retrieved and managed" (24VE)
OpenOntologyRepository_Scope - documentation related to this OOR initiative's mission, charter, objectives, goals, terms of reference, definitions, scope, ... etc. (24VF)
OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement - documentation related to the requirements of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through this OOR initiative. (24VG)
- OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases (24VH)
OpenOntologyRepository_Approach - documentation related to this OOR initiative's approach, and the process we will be using. (24VI)
OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture - documentation related to the architecture of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through this OOR initiative. (24VJ)
OpenOntologyRepository_Plan (24VK)
OOR/ActiveMemberContribution (24VL)
Team mailling list: [ oor-forum ] discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/ (24VM)
Developers mailling list: [ oor-dev ] discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-dev/ (24VN)
the four joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussions: (24VO)
- 2008_02_28 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "Ontology Registry and Repository Technology & Infrastructure Landscape" - Co-chairs: LeoObrst & FrankOlken; Panelists: BruceBargmeyer, MikeDean, MarkMusen, FarrukhNajmi & PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2008_02_28 T (24VP)
- 2008_03_27 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations & Requirements - Session-1" - Chair: LeoObrst & FabianNeuhaus; Panelists: WilliamBug, EvanWallace, JohnLMcCarthy, KenBaclawski, PeterBenson & RexBrooks - ConferenceCall_2008_03_27 T (24VQ)
- 2008_04_03 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations & Requirements - Session-2" - Chair: LeoObrst & FabianNeuhaus; Panelists: DougLenat, DekeSmith, MarciaZeng, DeniseBedford, PatHayes, MalaMehrotra & RobRaskin - ConferenceCall_2008_04_03 T (24VR)
- 2008_04_10 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "Developing an Ontology of Ontologies for OOR" - Co-chairs: BarrySmith & MichaelGruninger; Panelists: MichaelGruninger, PeterHaase, NatashaNoy & ElisaKendall - ConferenceCall_2008_04_10 T (24VS)
the OOR-dev: Synergies & Gaps panel session: (24VT)
- 2008_08_22 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground: Identifying Synergies & Gaps" (Take-1) - Chair: LeoObrst; Panelists: MikeDean, MarkMusen, LiDing, BruceBargmeyer & BillAndersen - ConferenceCall_2008_08_22 T (24VU)
OntologySummit2008 homepage (24VV)
- OntologySummit2008_Communique (24VW)
- OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda (24VX)
- The OOR Project Presentation (delivered at the OntologySummit2008 face-to-face workshop) (24VY)
[ ontology-summit ] discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2008-01/ (~5 months exchanges starting from Jan-2008) (24VZ)
Our key content pages: (24W0)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Scope (24W1)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Organization (24W2)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Process (24W3)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Policy (24W4)
- OpenOntologyRepository_IPR (24W5)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement (24W6)
- OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases (24W7)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture (24W8)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Approach (24W9)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Roadmap (24WA)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Plan (24WB)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Funding (24WC)
- OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchIssues (24WD)
- OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchActivity (251W)
- OpenOntologyRepository_Development (251X)
OOR Project site at SemWebCentral - http://oor.projects.semwebcentral.org (24WE)
our first sandbox instance of OOR - http://oor-01.cim3.net/ (24WF)
- NCBO-OOR development documentation - http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO-OOR_Development (24WG)

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