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Goto an OOR instance: '''[ OOR-sandbox ]. [ OOR-dev ]. [ OOR-test ]. [ SOCoP ]. [ COLORE ]. [ Ontohub ]. [ ORNL-DAAC ]. [ MMI-ORR ]. [ BioPortal ]'''

The OOR Mission

Priorities & Most Critical Tasks At Hand:
updated: 2012.07.10


 * 1. Systematically engage other communities to advance the state-of-the-art as well as to solicit content contributions
 * collaborate and solicit content contributions from the communities engaging in ontology research, development, engineering and applications
 * collaborate and solicit content contributions from the communities engaging in digital content and knowledge organization structures
 * 2. Identify compelling and relevant reference implementations and use cases of OOR, with a focus on demonstrating the application and value of OOR
 * consider possibilities in: bigdata, standards, ... bridging db-schema, xml, uml, ...
 * 3. Prepare and adopt an OOR system architecture
 * define and adopt a set of API's
 * 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
 * define and adopt a core development platform
 * 4. Initiate implementation of key development priorities
 * build out "gatekeeping" and move from just having an OOR-sandbox to having available instances of an OOR-sandbox and an OOR-production
 * add CL support to OOR
 * federation
 * 5. get the work of this team funded; and help/support/coordinate members' teaming up and getting funded
 * start a regular "Funding" workshop series (just like Architecture+API, Metadata, Code-development, etc.)
 * 6. continue with efforts in publicity and outreach
 * systematically get OOR-related presentations and papers into pertinent conferences and workshops
 * 7. 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
 * getting ourselves into a position where team members can contribute code
 * 8. regularly review requirements and existing standards to make sure we are on track

What's New:

 * Between January and May 2013, OOR will focus on supporting OntologySummit2013 and its "Ontology Evaluation" theme. OOR team members will make effort to contribute to the "Track-D: Software Environment for Ontology Evaluation" discourse, and the OntologySummit2013_Hackathon_Clinics work; as such, some of the meetings during this period will be held under the auspices of those activities.

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 * 2013_01_15 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2013_01_15


 * 2012_12_11 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_12_11


 * 2012_12_04 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_12_04


 * 2012_11_20 - Tuesday: Team Meeting: OOR Strategy, Tactics and Action Planning - Co-chairs: PeterYim & KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_20


 * 2012_11_06 - Tuesday: Team Meeting: OOR Strategy (and Funding) - Co-chairs: PeterYim & KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_06


 * 2012_09_20 - Thursday: Joint CL-IAOA-Ontolog virtual discussion session: "Revision of the CommonLogic Standard" - Chair: MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2012_09_20


 * 2012_09_18 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_09_18


 * 2012_09_11 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XIII: "New OOR Use Cases and their Impact on the OOR Architecture" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_09_11


 * 2012_08_21 - Tuesday: OOR Funding-II: "Rethinking our Funding Strategy" Brainstorm Session - Chair: KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_21


 * 2012_08_14 - Tuesday: OOR for Big Data: Workshop-I - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_14


 * 2012_07_17 - Tuesday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-3: "Standardisation Coordination and Ontology Repositories" - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & JohnBateman - ConferenceCall_2012_07_17


 * 2012_06_26 - OOR Content Workshop-III - Co-chair: MichaelGruninger & MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_06_26


 * 2012_06_19 - Tuesday: Joint SOCoP-OOR event - presentation by TorstenHahmann on: "A Reconciliation of Ontologies of Abstract Space: From Mereotopologies to Geometries" - Co-chair: GaryBergCross & MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_06_19


 * 2012_05_29 - OOR Content Workshop-II: "Coordinating Content among various OOR instances" - Co-chair: MichaelGruninger & MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_29


 * 2012_05_22 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VIII" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_22


 * 2012_05_17 - Thursday: "Implementing 'Big Open Data' in government through Open Collabroation - case examples and possibilities" - Co-chairs: GeorgeThomas, JesseWang & PeterYim - Panelists: JoelNatividad, WilSmith, StephenLarson, JonWeers, BernadetteHyland, LeoObrst, MikeDean, KenBaclawski - ConferenceCall_2012_05_17 - session was co-organized by Data.gov & Ontolog; with support from NYC-open-data, SMWCon-Spring2012, and OOR
 * slides for our "Leveraging OOR in Big Open Data" presentation by PeterYim, LeoObrst, MikeDean and KenBaclawski at the session is available here.


 * 2012_05_08 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XII: "To tab or not to tab" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_08


 * 2012_05_01 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_01


 * 2012_04_24 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-VII: "Metadata in Ontology Mapping" - Chair: MichaelGruninger - Panelists: OliverKutz-ChristophLange-TillMossakowski, JeromeEuzenat, NatashaNoy - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_04_24


 * 2012_04_10 - Tuesday: No OOR Meeting - OntologySummit2012_Symposium in session this week ... please join us there!


 * 2012_03_27 - Tuesday: OOR presentation: "Ontohub: an OOR-compliant Repository for Distributed Ontologies" - Chair: TillMossakowski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_27


 * 2012_03_20 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XI - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_20


 * 2012_03_06 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-VI: "Metadata for Financial Ontologies" - Chair: MichaelGruninger - Invited Speakers: DavidNewman, MikeBennett - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_06


 * 2012_02_28 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VII" Workshop - Chair: KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_02_28


 * 2012_01_31 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-X - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_31


 * 2012_01_17 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-V - Chair: MichaelGruninger - NIH/NCI-ORWG Panel: HaroldSolbrig, SherriDeCoronado, BrianDavis - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_17


 * 2011_12_13 - Tuesday: OOR Infrastructure Workshop: "Finalizing the OOR_SandBox upgrade" - Chair: PeterYim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_12_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


 * 2011_11_22 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VI" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_22


 * 2011_11_17 - on the invitation of the Ontology Representation WG (ORWG), PeterYim and MichaelGruninger presented an introduction to the OOR Initiative, and engaged in a Q&A / discussion with ORWG members to try to answer questions they may have about the OOR Initiative and to invite ORWG members to join us in future collaborative efforts.


 * 2011_11_08 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-V" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean - "Getting OOR Development going, on Eclipse?" - Discussant: EricChan - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_08


 * 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


 * 2011_10_18 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-IV - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_18


 * 2011_10_11 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VIII" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_11'''


 * 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_09_20 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_20'''


 * 2011_09_13 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Event - "Kicking-off the Next Phase of Collaboration" - Co-chairs: RayFergerson & PeterYim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_13


 * 2011_09_12 - New OOR Logo Design adopted by the community - see: OOR_Logo_Candidates


 * 2011_06_17 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VI" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_17


 * 2011_05_27 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-III - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_27


 * 2011_05_20 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-V" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_20


 * 2011_05_13 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-II - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_13


 * 2011_04_22 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-IV" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_04_22


 * 2011_03_25 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_25


 * 2011_03_18 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-I - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_18


 * 2011_03_11 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-II" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11
 * see: OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture


 * 2011_03_04 - Friday: OOR "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-I" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_04


 * 2010.12.17 - OOR IPR Policy Adopted - ref. - see: OpenOntologyRepository_IPR


 * 2010.12.12 - OOR.NET comes online (courtesy of CIM3): our OOR-sandbox at http://oor-01.cim3.net is now (also) accessible as http://sandbox.oor.net


 * 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


 * 2010.11.07 - The Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010) co-located at ISWC 2010 was held in Shanghai, China - PeterYim made a keynote presentation on "The OOR Initiative"


 * 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_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


 * 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_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_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_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


 * 2010.05.05 - OOR-sandbox v2.5 (powered by the NCBO BioPortal Core v2.5) is now online at: http://oor-01.cim3.net ref.


 * 2010.06.24 Thursday - MikeDean & PeterYim will be making a presentation and demo on OOR jointly authored by KenBaclawski, MikeDean, ToddSchneider and PeterYim at [[SemTech] 2010] - San Francisco, CA, US - 21~25 June 2010 - (ref. their conference program)


 * 2010.05.31 Monday - ORES 2010: the 1st International Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web co-located with ESWC 2010 (30 May ~ 2 Jun 2010, Heraklion, Greece)
 * KenBaclawski was a keynote speaker there, and gave a presentation on OOR to the workshop (remotely)


 * 2010.05.05 - OOR-sandbox v2.4 (powered by the NCBO BioPortal Core v2.4) is now online at: http://oor-01.cim3.net ref.


 * 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_03_25 - Thursday: Joint SIO-OOR-Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Getting the SIO Project Going" - Chair: JohnSowa - Panelists: PeterYim, MatthewWest, PatCassidy, MichaelGruninger, JohnBateman & MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2010_03_25


 * 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


 * 2010.02.12 - OOR-sandbox v2.1 (powered by the NCBO BioPortal v2.1 technology) is now online at: http://oor-01.cim3.net - the community is invited to upload your open ontologies there and help test out this public OOR instance - kindly provide feedback to our mailing list(s)


 * 2010.01.22 - Announcement: our 2nd installation of the (public instance of) OOR-sandbox, running BioPortal v2.x) is now being staged at the url: http://oor-01f.cim3.net (once this install stablizes, it be moved to our ongoing OOR-sandbox url http://oor-01.cim3.net and replace the earlier install running BioPortal v1.x) ... Developers and users are encouraged to test the install out, and report any problem to the [oor-forum] (user issues) or [oor-dev] (software bugs and issues) mailing list.
 * see: OOR_SandBox


 * Thu 2009_11_12 - MikeDean made a Geospatial-OOR presentation at the SOCoP/Workshop_2009_11_12


 * Tue 2009_11_10 - BartGajderowicz made a presentation of "The Open Ontology Repository" to the Toronto Semantic Web Meetup (based on notes from KenBaclawski) - see: the presentation here


 * 2009_10_25~29 - OOR presentations and get together during ISWC 2009 - see: OOR/ISWC2009


 * 2009.10.22 - DeniseBedford made a presentation about OOR and the Ontology Summit at the CENDI/NKOS Workshop entitled: "Knowledge Organization Systems: Managing to the Future"


 * 2009_10_15 - Thursday: "OOR-BioPortal Comparative Analysis" panel discussion - Chair: ToddSchneider - Panelists: NatashaNoy, MichaelDorf, KenBaclawski, ElisaKendall & MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2009_10_15


 * The new OOR/ResearchActivity page is now up ... please help populate it!


 * 2009_08_06 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "Ontology Repository Research Issues" - Chair: KenBaclawski - Panelists: MichaelGruninger, ElisaKendall, BartGajderowicz, MathieuDaquin & ToddSchneider - ConferenceCall_2009_08_06


 * 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


 * 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


 * The NCBO BioPortal (which forms the code-base for our OOR platform development) software architecture and UML Model was reverse engineered and posted by ToddSchneider
 * 2009_05_19 - UML Model of the NCBO BioPortal 2.0 Core posted - see overview at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture#nid1YKD
 * 2009_06_14 - the full UML model of the NCBO BioPortal 2.0 is available at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/oor-dev/BioPortal_3Mar2009_UML-Model_ToddSchneider_20090614/index.html
 * 2009_07_29 - the UML-EA diagrams of the NCBO BioPortal system 2.1d (v1016 of Jul-2009) is available at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/oor-dev/BioPortal_ver1016_UML-EA_Model--NCBO_ToddSchneider_20090729a/BioPortal_v1016_Jul2009_HTML/


 * 2009_04_16 - Thursday: OOR Use Cases Discussion Session - Chair: KatherineGoodier - ConferenceCall_2009_04_16


 * 2009.02.19 - Our first public sandbox instance of an OOR, based on the NCBO BioPortal technology (and donated by an joint effort of NCBO, Stanford-BMIR and CIM3) is now online - see: http://oor-01.cim3.net


 * 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


 * 2008_12_04 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Session - Co-chair: PaulBuitelaar & PeterYim; Panelist: Mathieu d'Aquin, MatthewHorridge & PaulBuitelaar - ConferenceCall_2008_12_04


 * OOR preliminary proposal for the NSF 07-601 grant solicitation was submitted on 2008.11.13 - see: OpenOntologyRepository_Proposal/Nsf_07601


 * FrankOlken delivered a well received talk on OOR at the CENDI/NKOS workshop held in Washington DC at the WorldBank on Sept. 11, 2008 workshop - see: Frank's slide presentation at - http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2008workshop/FrankOlken.pdf


 * 2008_08_22 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground: Identifying Synergies & Gaps" - Chair: LeoObrst; Panelists: MikeDean, MarkMusen, LiDing, BruceBargmeyer & BillAndersen - ConferenceCall_2008_08_22


 * 2008_04_29 - [[OntologySummit2008] Communiqué: Towards an Open Ontology Repository] published


 * 2008_04_29 - Our team made a presentation with our history, status, OOR rationale and requirements, and a proposed roadmap at the OntologySummit2008 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda#nid1BLS


 * 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


 * 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_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_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_01_23 - Wednesday: OOR Initiative - Founding Members Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_01_23


 * 2008_01_03 - Thursday: Open Ontology Repository initiative - Planning Meeting - Co-conveners: PeterYim, LeoObrst & MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2008_01_03

Key Date(s) to Note:
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Project Mission
The charter of the Open Ontology Repository (OOR) Initiative is to the promote the global use and sharing of ontologies by: 


 * 1. establishing a hosted registry-repository;


 * 2. enabling and facilitating open, federated, collaborative ontology repositories, and


 * 3. establishing best practices for expressing interoperable ontology and taxonomy work in registry-repositories.


 * (ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_03#nid16PN )

... where,


 * "An ontology repository is a facility where ontologies and related information artifacts can be stored, retrieved and managed."

Note that the "Open Ontology Repository (OOR) Initiative" is supposed to be an independent effort, and is only being incubated in the Ontolog collaborative work environment, for the time being.

Current Action Items (responsible/champion)

 * All members who don't yet have a populated "namesake page" on this wiki to put their respective affiliation, (obfuscated) email address and bio's there.


 * All active members to enumerate what they are ready to 'bring to the table' with respect to this initiative.
 * please make your entry (along with links and references) at: OOR/ActiveMemberContribution

We are in the process of establishing the following:

 * 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 - documentation related to this OOR initiative's deliverables, timeline, milestones & deadlines, project plans, etc.


 * OpenOntologyRepository_Funding - approach, opportunities and work-in-progress in terms of funding the OOR initiative.


 * OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchIssues - research issues that are pertinent to the design, development and operations of an "open ontology repository"
 * OOR/ResearchActivity - a compilation of active OOR-related research activities


 * OpenOntologyRepository_Development - ongoing OOR-related development projects and activities


 * OpenOntologyRepository_IPR - a mini-series of virtual events were featured in Sep-2010 to address Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues relating to OOR in particular (which will, invariably, cover IPR issues relating to ontology in general.) See the (draft) consensus IPR Policy for the OOR Initiative that emerged shortly afterwards.

Project Plan

 * Establish Definitions and Scope


 * Approach & Process


 * Plan & Timeline


 * Deliverables & Deadlines

Discussion Archives, Shared-File Workspace & System Development Repository

 * Discussion (Mailing) Lists & Message Archives:
 * [oor-forum] - archives to the (e-mail list) discussion on the "Open Ontology Repository (OOR)" initiative - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/
 * to participate in the virtual discourse, please subscribe to this [oor-forum] list by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: oor-forum-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net ; alternatively, go to the list-info/maintenance page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/oor-forum ... (email  if you have any question.)
 * [oor-dev] - archives to the (e-mail list) discussion on the "Open Ontology Repository" platform/tools development - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-dev/
 * to participate in the virtual discourse, please subscribe to this [oor-dev] list by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: oor-dev-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net ; alternatively, go to the list-info/maintenance page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/oor-dev ... (email  if you have any question.)
 * [oor-users] - archives to the (e-mail list) discussion among the "Open Ontology Repository" users - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-users/
 * to participate in the virtual discourse, please subscribe to this [oor-users] list by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: oor-users-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net ; alternatively, go to the list-info/maintenance page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/oor-users ... (email  if you have any question.)


 * Shared-File Workspace: . . . (open)
 * OOR team's work - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OpenOntologyRepository/ . . . (which we have IPR on)
 * Outside (reference) work, etc. - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/OpenOntologyRepository/ . . . (which we may re-publish here, but have no IPR on)
 * content of this shared-file workspace are open to all read access, browsers, hyperlinking and search
 * write access is limited to team members only, and is password protected. To gain write access, please refer to details at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ToolsCollaboration#nidAVL


 * Software development work is to be checked into the code repository (gforge-based subversion repository) at SemWebCentral
 * OOR sub-project repository at SemWebCentral is at: http://oor.semwebcentral.org/ (contact MikeDean for more details)
 * to contribute to the software development work, please sign-up at the project site (as per instructions there) or email  to arrange for your participation)
 * or, more directly, at: http://semwebcentral.org/projects/oor
 * http://semwebcentral.org/scm/?group_id=152 describes SVN access
 * see documentation at: http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO-OOR_Development
 * and http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_Developer_Communications


 * our open, public sandbox instance of OOR is at: http://sandbox.oor.net/ (or http://oor-01.cim3.net/)
 * NCBO-OOR development documentation - http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO-OOR_Development


 * You are invited to join us

Conference Call, Meeting & Workshop
o Our team made a presentation with our history, status, OOR rationale and requirements, and a proposed roadmap at the OntologySummit2008 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda#nid1BLS
 * 2013_01_15 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2013_01_15
 * 2012_12_11 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_12_11
 * 2012_12_04 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_12_04
 * 2012_11_06 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_06
 * 2012_10_09 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_10_09
 * 2012_09_04 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_09_18
 * 2012_08_07 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_07
 * 2012_07_10 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_07_10
 * ... (need to add back monthly regular team meetings and missed events)
 * 2011_12_13 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-V - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_12_13
 * 2011_12_06 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_12_06
 * 2011_11_29 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Session - "OOR Architecture & API Workshop-IX: BioPortal & OOR Synergies" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_29
 * 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_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
 * 2011_11_01 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_01
 * 2011_10_20 - Thursday: "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series: The New ISO 17347 "OntoIOp" Effort - Co-chair: JohnBateman & MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2011_10_20
 * 2011_10_18 - Tuesay: OOR Metadata Workshop-IV - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_18
 * 2011_10_11 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VIII" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_11
 * 2011_10_04 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_04
 * 2011_09_20 - Tuesday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_20
 * 2011_09_13 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Event - "Kicking-off the Next Phase of Collaboration" - Co-chairs: RayFergerson & PeterYim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_13
 * 2011_09_06 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_06
 * 2011_08_05 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_08_05
 * 2011_07_29 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_07_29 ... workshop postponed; unofficial meeting took place instead (due to lack of quorum.)
 * 2011_07_15 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_07_15
 * 2011_07_08 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VII" - Chair: KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_07_08 ... workshop postponed; unofficial meeting took place instead (due to lack of quorum.)
 * 2011_06_17 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-VI" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_17
 * 2011_06_03 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_06_03
 * 2011_05_27 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-III - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_27
 * 2011_05_20 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-V" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_20
 * 2011_05_13 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-II - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_13
 * 2011_05_06 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_06
 * 2011_04_22 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-IV" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_04_22
 * 2011_04_01 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_04_01
 * 2011_03_25 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-III" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_25
 * 2011_03_18 - Friday: OOR Metadata Workshop-I - Chair: MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_18
 * 2011_03_11 - Friday: OOR - "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-II" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_11
 * 2011_03_04 - Friday: OOR "Architecture & API Specification Development Workshop-I" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_04
 * 2011_02_18 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_02_18
 * 2011_02_04 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_02_04
 * 2011_01_21 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_01_21
 * 2011_01_07 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_01_07
 * 2010_12_17 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_12_17
 * 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_29 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_29
 * 2010_10_15 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_15
 * 2010_10_01 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_01
 * 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
 * 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_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_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_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_03 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_09_03
 * 2010_08_20 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_08_20
 * 2010_08_06 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_08_06
 * 2010_07_23 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_07_23
 * 2010_07_09 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_07_09
 * 2010_06_11 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_06_11
 * 2010_05_21 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_05_21
 * 2010_04_30 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_04_30
 * 2010_04_16 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_04_16
 * 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_03_25 - Thursday: Joint SIO-OOR-Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Getting the SIO Project Going" - Chair: JohnSowa - Panelists: PeterYim, MatthewWest, PatCassidy, MichaelGruninger, JohnBateman & MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2010_03_25
 * 2010_03_05 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_03_05
 * 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_02_05 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_05
 * 2010_01_22 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_01_22
 * 2010_01_08 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_01_08
 * 2009_12_11 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_12_11
 * 2009_11_13 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_11_13
 * 2009_10_28 - Wednesday: OOR Project Team informal get together - OOR/ISWC2009
 * 2009_10_15 - Thursday: "OOR-BioPortal Comparative Analysis" panel discussion - Chair: ToddSchneider - Panelists: NatashaNoy, MichaelDorf, KenBaclawski, ElisaKendall & MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2009_10_15
 * 2009_10_02 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_10_02
 * 2009_09_18 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_09_18
 * 2009_09_04 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_09_04
 * 2009_08_14 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_08_14
 * 2009_08_06 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "Ontology Repository Research Issues" - Chair: KenBaclawski - Panelists: MichaelGruninger, ElisaKendall, BartGajderowicz, MathieuDaquin & ToddSchneider - ConferenceCall_2009_08_06
 * 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
 * 2009_07_24 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_07_24
 * 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_10 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_07_10
 * 2009_06_26 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_06_26
 * 2009_06_12 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_06_12
 * 2009_05_29 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_29
 * 2009_05_15 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_15
 * 2009_05_01 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_01
 * 2009_04_16 - Thursday: OOR Use Cases Discussion Session - Chair: KatherineGoodier - ConferenceCall_2009_04_16
 * 2009_04_03 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_04_03
 * 2009_03_20 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_03_20
 * 2009_03_06 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_03_06
 * 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_02_06 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_02_06
 * 2009_01_23 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_01_23
 * 2009_01_09 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_01_09
 * 2008_12_12 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_12_12
 * 2008_11_14 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_11_14
 * 2008_11_07 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_11_07
 * 2008_10_17 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_17
 * 2008_10_10 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_10
 * 2008_10_03 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_10_03
 * 2008_09_19 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_09_19
 * 2008_09_05 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_09_05
 * 2008_08_29 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_08_29
 * 2008_08_22 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground: Identifying Synergies & Gaps" - Chair: LeoObrst; Panelists: MikeDean, MarkMusen, LiDing, BruceBargmeyer & BillAndersen - ConferenceCall_2008_08_22
 * 2008_08_08 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_08_08
 * 2008_07_25 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_07_25
 * 2008_07_11 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_07_11
 * 2008_06_06 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_06_06
 * 2008_05_23 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_23
 * 2008_05_09 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_09
 * 2008_04_28 - 04_29 - Monday~Tuesday: OntologySummit2008 face-to-face workshop, held during NIST's Interoperability Week (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - see: OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda
 * 2008_04_18 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_04_18
 * 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
 * 2008_04_04 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_04_04
 * 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_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_03_21 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_21
 * 2008_03_14 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_14
 * 2008_03_05 - Wednesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_05
 * 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_02_13 - Wednesday: OOR Initiative - Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_02_13
 * 2008_01_23 - Wednesday: OOR Initiative - Founding Members Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_01_23
 * 2008_01_03 - Thursday: Open Ontology Repository initiative - Planning Meeting - Co-conveners: PeterYim, LeoObrst & MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2008_01_03

Key Content Pages for the OOR Initiative:

 * OntologySummit2008_Communique
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Scope
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Organization
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Process
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Policy
 * OpenOntologyRepository_IPR
 * OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchIssues
 * OpenOntologyRepository_ResearchActivity
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement
 * OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Approach
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Roadmap
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Plan
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Funding
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Development
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Metadata
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Proposal
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Proposal/Nsf_07601

Publications & References

 * KenBaclawski and ToddSchneider presented on the OOR initiative at ISWC 2009 with this paper and poster - 2009.10.25~29 - see also: OOR/ISWC2009


 * KenBaclawski made a presentation on OOR at a meeting held at MBARI on 2009.06.15 - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/OOR_presentations_publications/OOR-MBARI-Presentation--KenBaclawski_20090615.ppt


 * MikeDean and PeterYim gave a "lightning-talk" at ISWC 2008 on OOR (2008.10.30) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/OOR_presentations_publications/OOR_iswc2008_lightning-talk--MikeDean-PeterYim_20081030.pdf


 * Presentation on the OOR initiative at the CENDI/NKOS workshop (at the WorldBank 2008.09.11) by FrankOlken - slides


 * Presentation by the OOR team at the OntologySummit2008 face-to-face workshop (2008.04.29) - slides
 * see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda#nid1BLS


 * OntologySummit2008 ... and, in particular, the OntologySummit2008_Communique

Resources & References to Related Work:

 * OntologySummit2008: Toward a Open Ontology Repository
 * OntologySummit2008_Communique


 * Proceedings from the Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web "ORES 2010" Workshop (colocated with ESWC 2010) - Heraklion, Greece - May 31, 2010 - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/OOR/eswc2010_ORES2010-workshop-proceedings.pdf


 * Open Repositories Conference 2008: Southamption, UK, Apr 1-4, 2008
 * see: http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.html
 * ref. (LeoObrst's post): http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/2008-01/msg00039.html


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Funding

 * OOR preliminary proposal for the NSF 07-601 grant solicitation was submitted on 2008.11.13 - see: OpenOntologyRepository_Proposal/Nsf_07601
 * the proposal, unfortunately, was not accepted - see discussion at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_05_01#nid1X61


 * The seeking of individual party or small team joint project funding proposals under the general OOR label is encouraged and has been rather successful. The following is a partial list of projects that were funded:
 * Stanford-BMIR - PI: MarkMusen - NIH: NCBO grant awarded
 * Northeastern University - KenBaclawski with PI: NeilSarkar - NIH/NLM grant awarded
 * University of Wisconsin et al (joint project) - PI: NancyWiegand - NSF: INTEROP grant awarded

IPR Policy
see: the official OOR-IPR Policy as adopted by the team on 2010.12.17 after a series of meetings, consultations and discussions.

The Team

 * Members: . . . the initial list (which has since been updated now) included those who were at (or responded to) the OOR Planning Meeting or the Founding Members Meeting - this list include active members as well as observers too (who may or may not have clearly identified themselves as such)
 * AndersTell
 * AtillaElci
 * BarrySmith
 * BenjaminDai (Stanford BMIR)
 * BobSmith
 * BruceBargmeyer (XMDR; LBL)
 * ChrisMenzel
 * DeniseBedford
 * DuaneNickull
 * EvanWallace (NIST, OMG)
 * FabianNeuhaus (NIST)
 * FarrukhNajmi
 * GerryCreager (Texas A&M University)
 * JohnGraybeal
 * JohnSowa
 * KajalClaypool (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
 * KatherineGoodier
 * KenBaclawski
 * LeeFeigenbaum (Cambridge Semantics)
 * LeoObrst
 * LiDing (RPI)
 * LuisBermudez (SURA)
 * MarciaZeng (Kent State University, Ohio)
 * MarkFeblowitz
 * MarkMusen
 * MichelleRaymond
 * MikeDean
 * DennisNicholson (Centre for Digital library Research, University of Strathclyde)
 * PatHayes
 * PatrickYee (Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development, HKU)
 * PeterBrown
 * PeterYim
 * RaviSharma
 * RexBrooks
 * RobRaskin
 * RoyLowry (British Oceanographic Data Centre)
 * SonDoan
 * SteveRay
 * TimMcGrath
 * TimRedmond
 * ToddSchneider
 * ... also signed up (after the launch) are:
 * AmandaVizedom
 * FrankAlvidrez
 * KGoodier
 * AlexGarcia
 * DeborahMcGuinness
 * HaroldSolbrig
 * NeilSarkar
 * NatashaNoy
 * TomWheeler
 * PaulBuitelaar
 * TrishWhetzel (Stanford-BMIR)
 * MatthewHorridge
 * Mathieu d'Aquin
 * AndreasHarth
 * BartGajderowicz
 * StephenGranite
 * DarrenOng
 * FrankChum
 * PavithraKenjige
 * LinePouchard
 * DougHolmes
 * EricChan
 * JouniTuominen
 * TimDarr
 * YuriyMilov
 * MikeBennett
 * DougSkuce
 * MariCarmenSuarezFigueroa


 * Observers: . . . those who are subscribed to the mailing list, but indicated their level of participation or responded to the meeting calls ... feel free to change your own membership category!
 * KurtConrad
 * FrankOlken
 * GaryBergCross
 * TraugottKoch (Max Planck Digital Library, Germany)

You are Invited to Join us in this Global OOR Initiative
Send any question you may have about this Initiative, or express your intent to join the team by emailing the OOR co-conveners:


 * MikeDean - 
 * LeoObrst - 
 * PeterYim - 

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