OOR/ConferenceCall 2010 03 12

= OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2010-03-12 =

This is a special meeting to help gain shared understanding on what the OOR team plans to do with the upcoming "OOR Content" panel session(s).


 * Co-Chair: Dr. PatCassidy & Professor DeniseBedford

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Friday, March 12, 2009
 * Start Time: 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST / 6:00pm CET / 5:00pm GMT / 17:00 UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
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 * Discussions and Q & A:
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 * 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_2010_03_12


 * 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.

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PatCassidy (co-chair)
 * MattHettinger
 * PeterYim (scribe)
 * AliHashemi
 * MichaelGruninger
 * KenBaclawski


 * Expecting:
 * DeniseBedford (co-chair)
 * LeoObrst (chair)
 * ... 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  so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ...
 * ... 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  so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ...


 * Regrets:
 * MikeDean
 * ToddSchneider
 * LinePouchard

Agenda Ideas:
please insert below (along with your name for follow-up purposes)


 * how shall we make our "Content" session (or, for that matter, a "content" Series of sessions) most productive?
 * are we keeping the 25-Mar-2010 date, or shall we reschedule?

Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:


 * PatCassidy takes the chair and welcome everyone
 * PeterYim volunteers to take minutes of the meeting


 * review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:


 * see above

3. "OOR Content" session discussion:

notes below are from previous sessions, and will be updated as this meeting progresses ...


 * planning for upcoming virtual panel sessions on: (i) Content [ (ii) Use Cases', and (iii) IPR will not be discussed at this call unless directly related to "content" issues ]
 * Content Panel - candidate co-champions: PatCassidy, DeniseBedford ... (AldoGangemi (Michael will contact)?)
 * PatCassidy: Questions:
 * Q1. how are we related to other similar work? ... Peter explained the relationship between BioPortal and OOR
 * Q2. any discussion on how ontologies will be indexed? ... Mike: reference made to OntologySummit2008
 * Pat will help upload some ontologies to the OOR-sandbox (v.2) in the near future -- those he uploaded previously to the v.1 sandbox, updated, and add ontologies like SUMO (in OWL), etc.
 * Pat: suggest we add a link to swoogle (and other ontology search engine) too, to allow people to search, both within and without the OOR.
 * Peter suggest we be aware that we need the entire content spectrum from ontology-light to FOL-ontologies


 * "Content" session - 2010.03.25
 * Pat: question-1: CL support for OOR ... Peter: contact MichaelGruninger and get updates on his COLORE project
 * Presenters: JohnSowa
 * question-2: who do we want at the session
 * Pat: what can OOR give people, to justify their contribution of content
 * Alex: suggest having someone from SWOOGLE
 * Pat: special call for "content" session planning Fri 2010.03.12 - same time
 * Pat: special call for "content" session planning Fri 2010.03.12 - same time


 * Transcript of the in-session chat:

PeterYim: "Do we upload other people's ontologies?" .... Peter: I suggest we *don't* do it at all (and don't even try to "mislead" people into believing that someone on the OOR team will do so ... we have to convince the stewards of the ontologies to join us on the team and to upload the ontologies themselves AND, more importantgly, to *maintain* them afterwards

MichaelGruninger: The link to COLORE is

MichaelGruninger: http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/colore/index.html

Ali Hashemi: Regarding how ontologies are connected

Ali Hashemi: At least three types of connections -- 1) Syntactic 2) Language Translation 3) Semantic

Pat Cassidy: What other ontology repositories currently exist? Anyone have a list?

Ali Hashemi: http://protege.stanford.edu/download/ontologies.html

Ali Hashemi: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/webspace/jb/info-pages/ontology/ontology-root.htm

PeterYim: Projects that use Protege: http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ProjectsThatUseProtege

PeterYim: Protege Ontologies Library: http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ProtegeOntologiesLibrary

PeterYim: also (more up-to-date): http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/Protege_Ontology_Library

PeterYim: we need early-adopters ... so maybe we should "target" certain folks

PeterYim: if your approach and Denise are diverse enough, Pat, you might consider running separate session ... so that each of your session(s) can be run in a way each of you feel most comfortable

PeterYim: Pat reckons that the Mar-25 will most likely be postponed

PeterYim: Ken & Todd's "Use Cases" panel session will stay as scheduled - Thu 1-Apr-2010

PeterYim: Make reference to: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository ... or ... http://OpenOntologyRepository.org

Ali Hashemi: Thanks all. Take care

4. Any Other Business:

5. Action items:

6. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:


 * Next Meeting:
 * next regular team call, same time, Fri 2010.03.19 - see details session page at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_19
 * 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 


 * Call adjourned at: 10:08 am PST

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2010.03.12-10:30am PST All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.

Resources

 * homepage - OpenOntologyRepository - http://OpenOntologyRepository.org
 * proceedings of our previous meetings
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_01_23
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_02_13
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_05
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_14
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_21
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_04_04
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_04_18
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_09
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_23
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_06_06
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_06_20
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_07_11
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_07_25
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_08_08
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_08_29
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_09_05
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_09_19
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_03
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_10
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_17
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_11_07
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_11_14
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_12_12
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_01_09
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_01_23
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_02_06
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_03_06
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_03_20
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_04_03
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_01
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_15
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_29
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_06_12
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_06_26
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_07_10
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_07_24
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_08_14
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_09_04
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_09_18
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_10_02
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_11_13
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_12_11
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_01_08
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_01_22
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_05
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_05
 * 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.
 * "Ontology Repository" Definition - "An ontology repository is a facility where ontologies and related information artifacts can be stored, retrieved and managed"
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Scope - documentation related to this OOR initiative's mission, charter, objectives, goals, terms of reference, definitions, scope, ... etc.
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement - documentation related to the requirements of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through this OOR initiative.
 * OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Approach - documentation related to this OOR initiative's approach, and the process we will be using.
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture - documentation related to the architecture of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through this OOR initiative.
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Plan
 * OOR/ActiveMemberContribution
 * Team mailling list:
 * OOR-Team discussion: [ oor-forum ]''' message archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/
 * OOR-Users discussion and support: [ oor-users ]''' message archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-users/
 * Developers mailling list: [ oor-dev ] message archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-dev/


 * the four joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussions:
 * 2008_02_28 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "Ontology Registry and Repository Technology &amp; Infrastructure Landscape" - Co-chairs: LeoObrst &amp; FrankOlken; Panelists: BruceBargmeyer, MikeDean, MarkMusen, FarrukhNajmi &amp; PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2008_02_28
 * 2008_03_27 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations &amp; Requirements - Session-1" - Chair: LeoObrst &amp; FabianNeuhaus; Panelists: WilliamBug, EvanWallace, JohnLMcCarthy, KenBaclawski, PeterBenson &amp; RexBrooks - ConferenceCall_2008_03_27
 * 2008_04_03 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations &amp; Requirements - Session-2" - Chair: LeoObrst &amp; FabianNeuhaus; Panelists: DougLenat, DekeSmith, MarciaZeng, DeniseBedford, PatHayes, MalaMehrotra &amp; RobRaskin - ConferenceCall_2008_04_03
 * 2008_04_10 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "Developing an Ontology of Ontologies for OOR" - Co-chairs: BarrySmith &amp; MichaelGruninger; Panelists: MichaelGruninger, PeterHaase, NatashaNoy &amp; ElisaKendall - ConferenceCall_2008_04_10
 * the OOR-dev: Synergies & Gaps panel session:
 * 2008_08_22 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground: Identifying Synergies &amp; Gaps" (Take-1) - Chair: LeoObrst; Panelists: MikeDean, MarkMusen, LiDing, BruceBargmeyer &amp; BillAndersen - ConferenceCall_2008_08_22
 * OntologySummit2008 homepage
 * OntologySummit2008_Communique
 * OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda
 * The OOR Project Presentation (delivered at the OntologySummit2008 face-to-face workshop)
 * [ ontology-summit ] discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2008-01/ (~5 months exchanges starting from Jan-2008)
 * Our key content pages:
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Scope
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Organization
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Process
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Policy
 * OpenOntologyRepository_IPR
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement
 * OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Approach
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Roadmap
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Plan
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Funding
 * OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchIssues
 * OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchActivity
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Development
 * OOR Project site at SemWebCentral - http://oor.projects.semwebcentral.org
 * Public sandbox instance of OOR (OOR-sandbox) - http://oor-01.cim3.net/
 * OOR_SandBox
 * NCBO-OOR development documentation - http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO-OOR_Development