OOR/ConferenceCall 2011 07 08

= OpenOntologyRepository Meeting - Fri 2011_07_08 =

Topic: Originally planned "OOR Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII" for this session is postponed

Session Chair: KenBaclawski

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Friday, 8-Jul-2011
 * Start Time: 6:00am PDT / 9:00am EDT / 3:00pm CEST / 2:00pm BST / 13:00 UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
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 * In-session chat-room url: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/oor_20110708


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 * 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:
 * KenBaclawski (chair)
 * PeterYim
 * JouniTuominen
 * MikeDean


 * Expecting:
 * ... 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:
 * ToddSchneider
 * YuriyMilov
 * TimDarr
 * LeoObrst

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


 * The specifications to be discussed at the these workshops are the following (not necessarily discussed in this order):
 * the OOR Architecture
 * the OOR API
 * the Organizing Plan
 * the default development platform

Abstract
As a result of the two OOR Architecture and API panel sessions back in Oct & Nov-2010, we have been exposed to a large number of architecture and API candidates for ontology repositories. We have had requirements for the OOR, at least in broad outline form, since the Ontology Summit 2008. We have been running an OOR sandbox based on BioPortal. Most recently, we have forked from the BioPortal code base with the intention of proceeding separately with the development of a reference implementation.

At this series of meetings, we are going through the process of producing the actual OOR specification. It will be run as a workshop where the straw man proposal will be discussed and modified as needed.

The various architectures and APIs for ontology repositories presented for consideration are available at OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture

Here is the straw man architecture: OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture/Candidate03

In addition, there is an API of the core services that was obtained from BioPortal, which is not entirely compatible with the straw man architecture, but furnishes a starting point. This API will also be discussed and modified as needed.

Here is the API expressed in WSDL: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/oor/OORService.wsdl

Here is the API expressed in Java: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/oor/OORI.java

Finally, we need to agree on a plan for completing the development of the specification.

Here is the proposed organizing plan: OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture/GettingOrganized

We encourage all participants to update your candidate contributions to ensure your ideas are known and understood.

The following are relevant prior meetings:


 * Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VI - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_17
 * Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-V - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_20
 * Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-IV - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_04_22
 * Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_25
 * Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-II - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11
 * Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-I - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_04
 * 2011.02.04 discussion
 * 2010_11_19 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion - "(Post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - Take-II" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & MichaelGruninger - Panelists: KenBaclawski+ToddSchneider, AldoGangemi+AlessandroAdamou, JouniTuominen+KimViljanen, EricChan - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_11_19
 * 2010_10_15 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - discussion on the (post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_15

Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:


 * KenBaclawski took the chair and welcome everyone


 * PeterYim volunteered to keep a record of the proceedings


 * review and adopt agenda
 * Ken / Peter: if we don't ave a critical mass of attendees, we will postpone this workshop to a later date
 * [decision]: the workshop is postponed ... we'll just exchanged among those who are present "what's new" and plan on the next few meeting. ... see below

2. Roll Call & Adoption of last meeting's minutes:


 * see above


 * ref. proceedings of "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VI" - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_17

3. Key items for review and discussion today:


 * Announcements and Urgent Matters:


 * Review of action item(s) from the previous meeting(s)
 * from 2011.06.17 - MichaelGruninger will examine the OMV to determine which attributes are required and which are optional.
 * from 2011.06.17 - KenBaclawski will send KEEPER (the gatekeeping software) to ToddSchneider who will generate the UML.


 * "OOR Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII:" (Archives)

... items below are mostly from the previous workshop, and will be updated as this session progresses.


 * Gatekeeping specifies the a set of minimal requirements that any ontology within the OOR has to meet. The latter are intended to enable the users of the OOR to find quickly ontologies that fit their needs; the criteria are not supposed to ensure the quality of the ontologies.
 * Each OOR instance declares what ontology languages it supports.
 * Every OOR instance MUST support RDFS.
 * This is required because the metadata is expressed in OMV.
 * OMV is written in OWL, but it may be sufficient to require only RDFS. This needs to be investigated.
 * Other ontology languages MAY be supported.
 * For each metadata attribute, it will be specified whether it is required or optional.
 * It MUST be specified whether the ontology is available (or to be available in the future).
 * The ontology language MUST be specified.
 * Other attributes will be handled offline by MichaelGruninger based on the OMV specification.
 * An ontology must satisfy other requirements depending on the ontology language.
 * Syntax checking is always required.
 * Consistency checking is required with some time limit.


 * chat transcript of this session:
 * PeterYim: since it is the summer, and a lot of people are on travel or have other plans, may I suggest we postpone this workshop if we do not have 5 or more attendees
 * PeterYim: I have subscribed myself to the BioPortal's [bioontology-support] mailing list ... I suggest members of this team should subscribe to that, if they aren't already - ref. https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bioontology-support
 * PeterYim: in the next OOR team meeting, I would like to briefly discuss the above too.
 * PeterYim: new ISO effort for Ontology Interoperability, entitled: "OntoIOp" - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-05/msg00034.html
 * PeterYim: officially: New Work Item Proposal ISO/NP 17347 - Ontology Integration and Interoperability (OntoIOp)
 * PeterYim: encourage everyone to (or get an appropriate colleague to) participate in this effort - contact the ISO representative of your country about your interest!
 * PeterYim: ... since we did not have quorum, the "Architecture & API Workshop-VII" is now postponed to Friday 2011.07.29
 * PeterYim: Next Friday (2011.07.15), we'll have our regular OOR team meeting (making up for the one we canceled in 2011.07.01) ... we probably want to discuss whether we should take it slow in August too, because a lot of people will be on vacation (especially our friends in Europe.)
 * PeterYim: no meeting on Friday (2011.07.22) - IAOA is co-organizing the "Vespucci Summer Institute" on "Process Ontology" in Florence, Italy that week - see: http://vespucci.org/programme

Consensus, Conclusions & Follow-up Actions:


 * we are postponing this workshop to Fri 2011-07-29

4. Any Other Business:

5. Action items:

6. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:


 * Next Meeting: How about ...
 * 2011_07_15 Friday: regular OOR Team meeting
 * we need to discuss if we want to take it slow (maybe just one or at most 2 meetings) in August
 * 2011_07_22 Friday: no meeting
 * 2011_07_29 Friday: Architecture & API Workshop-VII [co-chair: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider]


 * Call adjourned at: 6:38 am PDT

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2011.07.08-7:00am PDT All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.

Resources

 * homepage - OpenOntologyRepository - http://OpenOntologyRepository.org
 * 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"
 * 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/
 * proceedings of our previous meetings, panel discussions and workshops
 * the Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussions:
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * the OOR Development panel sessions:
 * 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
 * 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 & ToddSchneider - Panelists: ToddSchneider, MatthewHettinger, KenBaclawski and MaximoGurmendez - ConferenceCall_2010_04_01
 * 2010_09_10 - Friday: Joint SIO-OOR-Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Common Logic (CL) Support for OOR" - Chair: JohnSowa - Panelists: JohnBateman-TillMossakowski, MichaelGruninger, CameronRoss, AdamPease, PatHayes - ConferenceCall_2010_09_10
 * 2010_09_17 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion - "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-IV" Workshop - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & MichaelGruninger - Panelists: ToddSchneider, MikeDean, NatashaNoy, ImmanuelNormann, KenBaclawski, MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_09_17
 * 2010_10_15 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - discussion on the (post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_15
 * 2010_11_19 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion - "(Post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - Take-II" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & MichaelGruninger - Panelists: KenBaclawski+ToddSchneider, AldoGangemi+AlessandroAdamou, JouniTuominen+KimViljanen, EricChan - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_11_19
 * 2011_03_04 - Friday: OOR "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-I" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_04
 * 2011_03_11 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-II" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11
 * 2011_03_18 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-I - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_18
 * 2011_03_25 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_25
 * 2011_04_22 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-IV" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_04_22
 * 2011_05_13 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-II - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_13
 * 2011_05_20 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-V" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_20
 * 2011_05_27 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-III - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_27
 * 2011_06_17 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VI" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_17
 * the OOR-IPR mini-series:
 * 2010_09_09 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-1: an exposition on relevant IPR regimes - Keynote speaker: GeorgeStrawn - Chair: PeterYim - Panelists: JamieClark, JohnWilbanks, BrucePerens - ConferenceCall_2010_09_09
 * 2010_09_16 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-2: what are the IPR issues relating to open ontology repositories (and ontologies in general)? - Chair: MarkMusen - Panelists: CameronRoss, AlanRector, JohnSowa, BrucePerens, JohnWilbanks, PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2010_09_16
 * 2010_09_30 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-3: discussion and consensus on licensing arrangements for the OOR Initiative, and positions we might take on related IPR issues - chair: LeoObrst - Panelists: PeterYim, MikeDean, BrucePerens, JamieClark - ConferenceCall_2010_09_30
 * OntologySummit2008 homepage
 * OntologySummit2008_Communique
 * OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda & Proceedings
 * 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
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Metadata
 * OOR/ActiveMemberContribution
 * OOR Project site at SemWebCentral - http://oor.semwebcentral.org
 * Public sandbox instance of OOR (OOR-sandbox) - http://sandbox.oor.net/ontologies (previously http://oor-01.cim3.net/ontologies)
 * OOR_SandBox
 * NCBO - BioPortal
 * BioPortal's [bioontology-support] mailing list - see: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bioontology-support
 * NCBO-OOR development documentation - http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO-OOR_Development