OOR/ConferenceCall 2010 04 30

= OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2010-04-30 =

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Friday, 30-April-2010
 * Start Time: 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 6:00pm CEST / 5:00pm BST / 16:00 UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
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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_04_30


 * 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:
 * LeoObrst (chair)
 * MikeDean
 * PeterYim (scribe)
 * KenBaclawski
 * AlexGarcia
 * VyacheslavZholudev (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany)
 * ChristophLange
 * RaviSharma
 * Dave Rubenson (NCBO; Stanford)
 * BartGajderowicz
 * JohnBateman
 * NatashaNoy (can only join for the first 40 minutes)
 * CameronRoss
 * ImmanuelNormann (University of Bremen, Garmany)
 * ToddSchneider


 * Expecting:
 * DeniseBedford
 * ... 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:
 * MatthewHettinger
 * LinePouchard

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


 * (introduced by AlexGarcia) ImmanuelNormann, VyacheslavZholudev and ChristophLange will tell us about their work on ontology repository versioning mechanisms
 * organization and planning status on the Joint OOR-NCBO-Ontolog "IPR" Panel Sessions ... and picking dates for the session(s) - PeterYim, CameronRoss, Dave Rubenson
 * organization and planning status on the two tracks of the "Content" Panel Sessions ... and picking new labels and dates - PatCassidy & DeniseBedford
 * try to come up with more clarity as to what should be discussed under SIO and/or OOR (ONTOLOG too, for that matter) and possibly even start a fix meeting schedule for SIO-dev work
 * reports on member activities that are OOR-related

Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:


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


 * review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:


 * see above


 * welcome and intro of new member(s) (as needed)
 * ImmanuelNormann & VyacheslavZholudev

3. Status Review and Discussion:


 * Urgent issues:
 * none


 * Logistics and Communications ... (skipping discussion this time, due to long agenda)
 * new members (or those who haven't already done so) please populate - OOR/ActiveMemberContribution


 * Review of our priority list: ... (skipping discussion this time, due to long agenda)
 * 1. continue to push OOR development and get more contributors ... [All]
 * 2. set up policies and process for contributing to OOR work
 * setup clear and easy policies and process to engage developers and have them contribute code ... [champion: MikeDean]
 * build out "gatekeeping" and move from just having an OOR-sandbox to having available instances of an OOR-sandbox and an OOR-production ... [champion: KenBaclawski]
 * setup clear and easy policies and process to engage content stewards and have them contribute ontologies to our public instance of OOR
 * 3. systematically solicit content contributions [champions: PatCassidy & DeniseBedford]
 * 4. get the work funded ... [champion: KenBaclawski]
 * 5. regularly review requirements and existing standards to make sure we are on track ... [All]
 * 6. continue with efforts in publicity and outreach ... [All]


 * Agenda review: Key items for discussion at this call:


 * 1) (introduced by AlexGarcia) ImmanuelNormann, VyacheslavZholudev and ChristophLange will tell us about their work on ontology repository versioning mechanisms
 * 2) organization and planning status on the Joint OOR-NCBO-Ontolog "IPR" Panel Sessions ... and picking dates for the session(s) - PeterYim, CameronRoss, Dave Rubenson
 * 3) organization and planning status on the two tracks of  the "Content" Panel Sessions ... and picking new labels and dates - PatCassidy & DeniseBedford
 * 4) reports on member activities that are OOR-related
 * OOR-sandbox status
 * code repository status
 * Mike: will work on starting the trunk before the end of the week
 * will start by migrating the BBN trunk over (which is based on BioPortal v2.1) where the BBN federation codes
 * will add KenBaclawski as a repository admin
 * NCBO
 * Natasha: BioPortal v2.4 now released
 * another release expected mid-May
 * NEU
 * Ken: active and busy
 * gatekeeping code almost ready, will add when new repository is up
 * BBN
 * Mike: no new update
 * Bremen
 * John: no new update
 * UToronto
 * Ryerson
 * Bart: just got an OOR instance up and running on a VMware instance
 * suggest if someone can make vm image available to ease installation
 * Ken: have a student who is trying to simplify the installation, hopefully, there will be less installation issues after that (will have more to report in a couple of weeks)
 * after this weekend's upgrade, Ken will try to get an image of the new install (Tomcat 6, java 6, BioPortal core v2.4)
 * Mathet
 * SOCoP
 * MMI
 * Ken: I'm talking to the MMI and will try to get efforts (in relation to OOR) coordinated
 * Use Cases
 * SIO
 * Outreach - FOIS, ORES10, SemTech, ...
 * see reports ref. FOIS (Leo, John), ORES10 (Alex, Christoph) & SemTech (Mike, Todd, Peter) below
 * AlexGarcia, KenBaclawski and MikeDean will explore proposing a workshop (similar to ORES) at ISWC - Nov. 2010, Shanghai - May 7 is deadline for workshop proposal.
 * Alex will take lead and do a first draft of the proposal
 * Peter will check with Natasha to see if they might be proposal a similar workshop for ISWC 2010
 * Funding
 * Ken: NSF OCI-STCI proposal submmitted
 * Alex: exploring a G8 possibility ... will keep everyone posted


 * Versioning Mechanisms - perspectives from Bremen, Germany
 * (introduced by AlexGarcia) ImmanuelNormann, VyacheslavZholudev and ChristophLange will tell us about their work on ontology repository versioning mechanisms
 * see: https://tntbase.org/wiki/PresentationOOR20100430
 * we will look toward setting up a panel session specially focused on versioning

... some of the items below are from the previous call(s), and will be updated as we progressed on this meeting.


 * IPR issues and the planning of an "IPR" Panel Session for both OOR & BioPortal that we will scheduled into the not-too-distant future
 * CameronRoss will be joining Mark, Dave Rubenson and PeterYim to help get these session organized
 * JohnBateman: Open question: has the IPR issue been discussed with respect to the content of the OOR yet? I would think that ontologies, ontology modules and links between modules (in the form of more or less complex bundles of mappings) may need to be fixed with ownership/distribution and use licenses despite the first O in OOR... is this considered?


 * planning the two tracks of the "Content" Panel Sessions ... and picking new labels and dates - PatCassidy & DeniseBedford
 * need from both Pat and Denise: a date, a title and an abstract for the first session of each track
 * Pat will be creating a wiki page
 * Michael suggested that Pat starts a thread on the mailing list


 * reports on member activities that are OOR-related


 * OOR_SandBox usage and progress review - http://oor-01.cim3.net/ontologies
 * upgrading to BioPortal Core version 2.4 (Tag 1026) supporting Java 6 ... along with Tomcat 6 (v6.0.26) upgrade too
 * ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-dev/2010-04/msg00002.html


 * Code Repsoitory at SemWebCentral - http://oor.projects.semwebcentral.org


 * OOR-work Progress at NEU:
 * Ken: students have produce a few hundred use cases (lots of duplicates, of course) -- not exactly OOR, but related, with emphasis in gatekeeping ... project is actually called "Keeper"
 * Ken: students are interested in getting their work licensed and published/released.
 * have instructed student to consider picking some Creative Commons or Open Source Licence
 * Ken/2010.04.16: use cases description ontology now online
 * Ken/2010.04.16: gatekeeping codes will be ready fairly soon


 * OOR-work Progress at Raytheon-BBN:
 * Jim: reported on progress with federation work ... (Jim, Dan or Mike: please elaborate here, if you can get around to it.)
 * Jim's development OOR instance is able to federate from oor-01f (as the remote host) ... it works pretty well (and updates every minute!)
 * Jim will be presenting their work on Feb-19
 * Mike / Jim: we could offer this back to the BioPortal folks, and this could be discussed during the Feb-19 session
 * this work is under the BSD open source license
 * Mike/2010.03.19: Jim and Dan has left BBN, therefore no new development for a little while
 * next move is to migrate the BBN SVN content to semwebcentral (but probably not within the next two weeks)
 * Todd/2010.04.16 - still need to stand up an instance at Raytheon ... can't quite access the BBN instance yet


 * OOR-work Progress at Bremen
 * AlexGarcia: ...


 * OOR-work in progress at Ryerson University
 * Bart installing OOR on local server
 * after a few technical problems, OOR is running on a VMWare instance
 * will port to live server in the coming week
 * perhaps a VMWare instance could be distributed, such as a LAMP bundle (eg. XAMPP)


 * MattHettinger: need to find out how one gets started with installing an OOR instance
 * Peter suggests:
 * (a) contact KenBaclawski for the install instructions ... the NEU folks are also in the process of putting together some documentation for the install
 * (b) reference JimChatigny's notes - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-dev/2010-01/msg00018.html
 * (c) contact TejasParikh (of NEU) for initial help (use [oor-dev] too as much as one can, so as to help others in the future too.)
 * (d) post any question to the [oor-dev] list - the Stanford folks have been extremely responsive and helpful
 * MattHettinger/2010.04.16: planning to install an instance of OOR and JohnBateman's codes, and possibly even COLORE ... pending resolution of some security issues on his site currently


 * CoryCasanave - OOR related work on http://ModelDriven.org
 * "Enterprise Knowledge Base" (EKB) project http://portal.modeldriven.org/project/EKB
 * see also: OMG_Architecture_Ecosystem_Use_Cases


 * SIO Project
 * try to come up with more clarity as to what should be discussed under SIO and/or OOR (ONTOLOG too, for that matter) and possibly even start a fix meeting schedule for SIO-dev work
 * Cameron: we probably should wait till we have the SIO Mission Statement from JohnSowa before trying to make this conversation
 * Peter: since [sio-dev] is intended for implementation level conversation, and we aren't quite implementing things yet, maybe most of the discussions that are going on at [sio-dev] now actually belongs to [ontolog-forum] (those specific to OOR may possibly be on [oor-forum]) and then we should only start using [sio-dev] after we have started to implement things (similar to the case on how [oor-dev] is being used.)


 * FOIS-2010 - Toronto, Canada - May 11-14, 2010 - http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/
 * OntologySummit2010_Communique has been released ... please endorse
 * Join IAOA ... and get involved in the upcoming election of the next IAOA Executive Council
 * Education workshop at FOIS in May (Toronto, Canada) will follow-up on that
 * ArturoSanchez & AntonyGalton are spearheading an effort to develop an ontology-based and ontology-driven Registry of Ontology-Centered Educational and Training
 * ref. ConferenceCall_2010_04_15 - presentation and slides by ArturoSanchez
 * Peter: we have offered the use of OOR as part of the infrastructure


 * Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web "ORES 2010" Workshop (colocated with ESWC 2010) - Heraklion, Crete, Greece - May 31, 2010 - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/
 * AlexGarcia: ...
 * call for paper extended to Mar 15
 * Alex: will look to collaborate with OOR,
 * Alex: will support remote presentation
 * Ken will make a presentation on OOR on behalf of this team
 * Pat: want to find out how to access proceedings from that workshop ... Ken will help find out


 * OOR presentation at the Semantic Technology 2010 Conference (21~25-Jun-2010, San Francisco, CA, USA.)
 * update/2010.03.05 - our proposal has been accepted. MikeDean, ToddSchneider and PeterYim will be doing a full (1-Hr) session to present OOR at this Conference, scheduled for 4:45 PM to 5:45 PM on Thursday, June 24, 2010.
 * MikeDean ...


 * Funding and proposals
 * KenBaclawski submitted an proposal to STCI, jointly with PeterYim and MikeDean.
 * See http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/proposals/NSF-OCI-STCI-Proposal_KenBaclawski.pdf

4. New Issues:

5. Any Other Business:


 * Peter: I received an offer for the  domain name for about US$5000

6. Action items:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:


 * Next Meeting:
 * coming up!
 * FOIS 2010 - Toronto, Canada - May 11-14, 2010 - http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/
 * ORES 2010 / ESWC 2010 - Heraklion, Greece - May 31, 2010 - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/
 * our next regular team call, same time, Fri 2010.05.21 - see details session page at: OOR/[[ConferenceCall _2010_05_21]]
 * and then do the one after that on Fri 2010.06.11
 * 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: 10:24 am PDT

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2010.04.30-10:29am PDT 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/ConferenceCall_2010_03_19
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_04_16
 * 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 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 Development 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
 * 2009_02_19 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground (Take-2): the work begins" - Chair: ToddSchneider; Panelists: MarkMusen, NatashaNoy, MikeDean, PaulBuitelaar / AndreasHarth, MathieuDaquin, KenBaclawski, MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2009_02_19
 * 2009_07_16 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "Integrated tools for ontology development and management: A field guide to the Stanford technology" - Chair: MarkMusen - Panelists: TaniaTudorache, TimRedmond, NatashaNoy - ConferenceCall_2009_07_16
 * 2009_07_30 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "BioPortal and related Ontology Repository Implementations and Development" (Take-3) - Chair: NatashaNoy - Panelists: CarlosRueda, PaulAlexander, JohnGraybeal, MikeDean, StephenGranite, AlexGarcia, KenBaclawski - ConferenceCall_2009_07_30
 * 2010_02_19 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Coordinating our Open Ontology Repository Software Development" - Chair: MikeDean - Panelists: JimChatigny, MichaelGruninger, KenBaclawski, NatashaNoy - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_19
 * 2010_04_01 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog Panel Session: "OOR Use Cases - Take-3" - Chair: KenBaclawski &amp; ToddSchneider - Panelists: ToddSchneider, MatthewHettinger, KenBaclawski and MaximoGurmendez - ConferenceCall_2010_04_01
 * 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/ontologies
 * OOR_SandBox
 * NCBO-OOR development documentation - http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO-OOR_Development