OOR/ConferenceCall 2012 07 10

= OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Tue 2012_07_10 =

This is a regular OOR Team meeting. ... please refer also to proceedings from the last team meeting at OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_06_12

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Tuesday, 10-Jul-2012
 * Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CEST / 15:30 UTC
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 * Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours


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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim (Chair)
 * KenBaclawski
 * TerryLongstreth
 * MichaelGruninger
 * ToddSchneider
 * TimDarr
 * BobSmith
 * MikeBennett
 * 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:
 * LeoObrst

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


 * Team priority (and "critical task" list) review - Yes!
 * upcoming activities / virtual-session planning
 * OOR: sandbox, devbox, test-instance, socop, colore, ornl-daac, mmi-orr, new ncbo-appliance, ... status update and coordination
 * Member activities updates
 * action planning for "content drive" (getting people to upload ontologies)
 * coordination for getting work funded
 * Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box

Agenda & Proceedings
Archives:


 * audio recording of the session [ 1:07:24 ; mp3 ; 7.72MB ]
 * chat-transcript of this session

1. Meeting called to order:


 * PeterYim takes the chair and welcomes everyone
 * and volunteered to take notes
 * review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:


 * see above


 * welcome and intro of new member(s) (if applicable)

3. Status Review and Discussion:

close look again!''
 * Team priority: Review and update our "Most Critical Task(s) At Hand" list ... ''Yes, time to take a
 * ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository#nid17YH

4. Key items for discussion:


 * upcoming activities / virtual-session planning
 * Scheduled:
 * 2012_07_17 - Tuesday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards-III" - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger and JohnBateman
 * 2012_07_24 & 31 - no OOR events (due to FOIS)
 * 2012_08_07 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call
 * 2012_08_14 - Tuesday: OOR for Big Data: Workshop-I - Chair: MikeDean
 * To be Scheduled:
 * OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XIII - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider (previously planned for today, 2012_07_10) -
 * OOR Content Workshop-III - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger and MikeDean -
 * OOR Metadata Workshop-VIII - Chair: MichaelGruninger -
 * OOR Code Development-IX - Chair: MikeDean -
 * OOR Infrastructure-II - Chair: PeterYim -
 * OOR Funding-I - Chair: KenBaclawski - ?


 * OOR: sandbox, devbox, test-instance, socop, colore, ornl-daac, mmi-orr, new ncbo-appliance, ... status update and coordination
 * OOR: sandbox, devbox, test-instance, socop, colore, ornl-daac, mmi-orr, new ncbo-appliance, ... status update and coordination
 * updated OOR index page - http://oor.net - opens to the index page for accessing any of the OOR instances; takes one to the OOR project homepage after 15 seconds ... now with a "pause button"
 * OOR project homepage - http://www.oor.net - opens to the OOR project homepage on this wiki (same effect as http://OpenOntologyRepository.org or http://oor.cim3.net)
 * servers/instances:
 * OOR-01 - (old instance, being retired) re-direct to project homepage
 * OOR-02 - ci server
 * OOR-03 - sandbox - http://sandbox.oor.net
 * OOR-04 - socop - http://socop.oor.net
 * OOR-05 - devbox - http://dev.oor.net
 * OOR-06 - test-00 - http://test-00.oor.net
 * status review ...


 * Member activities updates - Review: members and OOR-related activities (2012.07.10)
 * OOR-sandbox status
 * code repository status
 * NCBO - BioPortal updates
 * NEU - Gatekeeper, ...
 * Raytheon-BBN - federation, ...
 * UToronto - COLORE
 * Bremen - Ontohub
 * Ryerson
 * Mathet
 * SOCoP_INTEROP - SOCoP-OOR
 * DataONE
 * NeOn (KMi and STL)
 * ONKI
 * KBSI
 * MMI
 * Use Cases
 * Architecture
 * API
 * Gatekeeping
 * production OOR instance
 * SIO
 * ICOM / DERI
 * content drive
 * Funding


 * Action planning for "content drive" (getting people to upload ontologies)
 * (discussion 2011.05.06):
 * an adopted Architecture & API is definitely crucial, but that's not all
 * All team members are encouraged to mull over how we can get to that state effectively
 * in particular ... how do we make this a "successful" community-driven, open source project!?
 * (discussion 2011.07.10)'' ...


 * Coordination for getting work funded
 * ref. "opportunities"
 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2012-07/msg00057.html
 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2012-04/msg00028.html#nid04


 * Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box
 * we need a gatekeeping/policy module in place - [KenBaclawski]


 * IM Chat Transcript captured during the session:

(for better clarity, the version below is a re-organized and lightly edited chat-transcript.) Participants are welcome to make light edits to their own contributions as they see fit.

-- begin in-session chat-transcript --

[08:26] PeterYim: Welcome to the

= OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Tue 2012_07_10 =

session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_07_10

Attendees: PeterYim (chair), BobSmith, KenBaclawski, MichaelGruninger, MikeBennett, MikeDean, TerryLongstreth, TimDarr, ToddSchneider

Proceedings:
[08:40] PeterYim: == reviewing Most Critical Task(s) At Hand and priorities - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository#nid17YH

[08:42] PeterYim: asking hard questions (and playing devil's advocate) ...

[08:42] PeterYim: unfortunately, after 4.5 years, no one's work life depend on OOR yet! ...

[08:42] PeterYim: ... are we on the verge of being irrelevant?

[08:42] TerryLongstreth: Is there a Use case to demonstrate the need for an OOR?

[08:44] TerryLongstreth: Why would you need to integrate OOR into an application? Why would you need to integrate heterogeneously defined ontologies into an application? why would you need to integrate an ontology into an application?

[08:46] MikeBennett: There is still some way to go in educating people on the potential uses of ontologies. One the one hand there are RDF based semantic web applications, which are gaining traction; however the value of having common business semantics is itself a strong value proposition, but one which is difficult to convey to conventional technology implementers.

[08:46] ToddSchneider: There may not be sufficient market need.

[08:49] MikeBennett: That is, we need to demonstrate technology-based benefits to hard-nosed business people.

[09:17] MikeBennett: Cognitive dissonance - worth describing in a white paper.

[08:51] ToddSchneider: How about giving out OOR install disks at ISWC?

[08:50] MichaelGruninger: In addition to the Industry community, we also need to engage the academic and standards communities that would benefit from OOR -- ontology mapping, ontology patterns, standards harmonization

[08:54] MichaelGruninger: For example, Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2012/

[08:56] KenBaclawski: I suggest that we have one or most tasks to add more use cases for the OOR for using ontologies. The use cases currently focus on development of ontologies, storing ontologies, reviewing ontologies, but nothing on the use of ontologies by an application. The only use of an ontology by an application at the moment is done "off-line" after downloading the ontology.

[08:57] TerryLongstreth: Does the potential market cavil at the use of the term 'Open'

[08:57] ToddSchneider: Terry, 'cavil'?

[09:00] TerryLongstreth: YCLIU: cavil/kavl/ Verb: Make petty or unnecessary objections. Noun: An objection of this kind. Synonyms: carp

[08:58] KenBaclawski: The OOR is open source, but one can use it for a "closed" repository inside a company. This could be another use case.

[09:01] KenBaclawski: What about approaching a standards body? Would OASIS be interested?

[09:15] PeterYim: @Ken - with OASIS, we need to look more closely at the transition from XML to Ontology

[09:02] ToddSchneider: Is there a particular market space we're going after?

[09:03] BobSmith : @Ken - interesting question about OASIS (or OMG) interests. How would you find out??

[09:06] ToddSchneider: Approach OMG?

[09:07] BobSmith : UML advocates... as one of several bridges to Ontology (?)

[09:08] ToddSchneider: I was thinking RFP for a formal semantics. I forget the name of the request.

[09:09] BobSmith : building SMART alliance (bSa) needs a Spreadsheet to Ontology BRIDGE

[09:10] BobSmith : ;-}

[09:11] MikeBennett: The OMG has an active Ontology SIG already.

[09:17] KenBaclawski: @MikeBennett: I was one of the founders of that OMG SIG, but I have not been active in it for some time. However, I am suggesting something a little different. The OMG and OASIS could use the OOR as the repository for their standards.

[09:11] ToddSchneider: Have to go. Cheers.

[09:12] PeterYim: bye! thanks Todd ...

[09:12] PeterYim: we need to stay relevant to the "big data" movement that is happening now, especially because we have a lot to contribute

[09:13] MichaelGruninger: For one category of users, we need to first convince them that they need ontologies and to show them how ontologies can be used. The other category of users are those who are already using ontologies; for these users, we only need to show them the benefits of the repository that contains the ontologies that they are using.

[09:17] PeterYim: coming back to the list, what we have now - Most Critical Task(s) At Hand:   (17YH)

1. Prepare and adopt an OOR system architecture   (2I9U) define and adopt a set of API's   (2I9V) define and adopt the set of ontology metadata (as an extension of OMV) that authors of the ontology are required to provide when they upload ontologies to the OOR   (2I9W) define and adopt a core development platform   (2L0P) 2. set up policies and process for contributing to OOR work   (1PZR) setup clear and easy policies and process to engage developers and have them contribute code   (28Q3) getting ourselves into a position where team members can contribute code   (2R91) 3. Initiate implementation of key development priorities   (2R92) build out "gatekeeping" and move from just having an OOR-sandbox to having available instances of an OOR-sandbox and an OOR-production   (23YW) add CL support to OOR   (2GLZ) federation   (2R93) 4. systematically solicit content contributions   (1VMD) from the communities engaging in ontology research, development, engineering and applications   (2KTL) from the communities engaging in digital content and knowledge organization structures   (2KTM) 5. get the work funded   (1TID) 6. regularly review requirements and existing standards to make sure we are on track   (1P5V) 7. continue with efforts in publicity and outreach   (28Q5)

[09:20] PeterYim: AA. identify compelling and relevant use cases of OOR, with the focus on demonstrating the application and value of OOR

[09:22] PeterYim: AA.1 consider possibilities in: standards, bigdata, ... bridging db-schema, xml, uml, ...

[09:21] TerryLongstreth: A tool to help standards orgs integrate heterogeneous ontologies

[09:22] TerryLongstreth: For example: see the ITU ASN.1 production hierarchies

[09:44] TerryLongstreth: Here's a better view of ASN.1 http://www.oid-info.com/faq.htm

[09:24] TerryLongstreth: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/recommendations/fl.aspx?lang=1

[09:25] PeterYim: 4. --> 4' systematically engage other communities to advance the state-of-the-art as well as to solicit content contributions

[09:35] BobSmith : The one thing we know about funding is "FUNDING CYCLES" - a calendar of dates would be useful at a future OOR Funding Workshop

[09:38] PeterYim: 5.1 start a regular Funding workshop series (just like Architecture+API, Metadata, etc.) ... KenBaclawski will champion this

[09:46] PeterYim: Michael: planning on using next Tuesday's (Jul-17) workshop slot to engage the community to discuss various aspects of the IAOA "Ontology Registry and Repository" and "Standards Coordination" SIGs (in preparation to the SIG meeting which be come up during FOIS (Jul-24 to 27)

[09:47] PeterYim: Michael will send title and abstract of the session to Peter, and then start discussing this on the mailing lists of OOR, IAOA and Ontolog

[09:48] PeterYim: ... very productive session!

[09:48] PeterYim: -- session ended: 9:44am PDT --

-- end in-session chat-transcript --

5. Any Other Business:


 * would be nice if someone on this team would submit a paper to this workshop
 * [from 2012.06.12 discussion] OEDW 2012: "Did the current data-driven world kill ontologies?" (a full-day workshop at EKAW 2012, Galway, Ireland, 2012.10.08~09)
 * ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2012-06/msg00000.html - Paper submission deadline: August 10th, 2012

6. Action items:


 * MichaelGruninger will organize a discussion of "Ontology Registry and Repository" and "Ontologies and Standards" during the Jul-17 session; as a preparation for the IAOA session at FOIS where those two SIGs will be discussed
 * KenBaclawski will try to explore collaboration with OASIS during the upcoming Jul-25 OASIS AGM (at Burlington, MA)
 * we will start to have regular "OOR-Funding workshops" (similar to ones we are having for Architecture+API, Metadata, Code-development, etc.) KenBaclawski will champion this.
 * PeterYim will update the "Priorities & Most Critical Tasks At Hand" list, in accordance with today's discussion, at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository#nid17YH ... (Done! --ppy/2012.07.10-10:04am PDT)

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:


 * Next Meetings:
 * 2012_07_17 - Tuesday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards-III" - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger and JohnBateman
 * 2012_08_07 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call
 * 2012_08_14 - Tuesday: OOR for Big Data: Workshop-I - Chair: MikeDean
 * ... please mark your calendars and come!


 * Call adjourned at: 9:44 am PDT

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2012.07.10-10:21am PDT All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.

Resources

 * Homepage for the Open Ontology Repository Initiative - OpenOntologyRepository - http://OpenOntologyRepository.org or simply http://www.oor.net
 * 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
 * 2011_09_13 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Team Meeting - "Kicking-off the Next Phase of Collaboration" - Co-chairs: RayFergerson & PeterYim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_13
 * 2011_11_29 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Session - "OOR Architecture & API Workshop-IX: BioPortal & OOR Synergies" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - Discussant: RayFergerson - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_29
 * 2012_03_27 - Tuesday: OOR presentation: "Ontohub: an OOR-compliant Repository for Distributed Ontologies" - Chair: TillMossakowski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_27
 * 2012_03_27 - Tuesday: OOR presentation: "Ontohub: an OOR-compliant Repository for Distributed Ontologies" - Chair: TillMossakowski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_27


 * 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_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_20 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-V" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_20
 * 2011_06_17 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VI" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_17
 * 2011_09_20 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_20
 * 2011_10_11 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VIII" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_11
 * 2012_01_31 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Workshop-X" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_31
 * 2012_03_20 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Workshop-XI" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_20
 * 2012_05_08 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Workshop-XII" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_08
 * 2012_05_08 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Workshop-XII" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_08


 * 2011_11_08 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-V" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean - "Getting OOR Development going, on Eclipse?" - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_08
 * 2011_11_22 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VI" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_22
 * 2012_02_28 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VII" Workshop - Chair: KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_02_28
 * 2012_05_22 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VIII" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_22
 * 2012_05_22 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VIII" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_22


 * 2011_03_18 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-I - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_18
 * 2011_05_13 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-II - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_13
 * 2011_05_27 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-III - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_27
 * 2011_10_18 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-IV - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_18
 * 2012_01_17 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-V - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_17
 * 2012_03_06 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-VI - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_06
 * 2012_04_24 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-VII - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_04_24
 * 2012_04_24 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-VII - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_04_24


 * 2011_12_13 - Tuesdayday: OOR Infrastructure Workshop - Chair: PeterYim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_12_13
 * 2011_12_13 - Tuesdayday: OOR Infrastructure Workshop - Chair: PeterYim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_12_13


 * 2010_03_12 - Friday: OOR Content Workshop-I - Co-chairs: PatCassidy & DeniseBedford - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_12
 * 2012_05_22 - Tuesday: OOR Content Workshop-II - Chair: MichaelGruninger & MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_29
 * 2012_07_10 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XIII - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_07_10
 * 2012_07_10 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XIII - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_07_10


 * 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


 * the Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series:
 * 2011_10_20 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-1: Introducing the ISO NP 17347 "Ontology Integration and Interoperability (OntoIOp)" Standardization Effort - Co-chairs: JohnBateman & MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2011_10_20
 * 2011_11_03 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-2: Invited Speaker: ElisaKendall on "Ontology-Related Metadata Standards" - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & JohnBateman - ConferenceCall_2011_11_03


 * 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 instances of OOR - http://oor.net
 * OOR_SandBox - http://oor-03.cim3.net - http://sandbox.oor.net/
 * see also: OOR_SandBox_Customization
 * OOR_DevBox - http://oor-05.cim3.net - http://dev.oor.net/
 * a first OOR Test instance - http://oor-06.cim3.net - http://test-00.oor.net/
 * SOCoP_OOR - http://oor-04.cim3.net - http://socop.oor.net/ontologies
 * COLORE_OOR - http://colore.oor.net
 * ORNL-DAAC - http://ornl-daac.oor.net
 * MMI-ORR - http://mmisw.oor.net
 * 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