OOR/ConferenceCall 2012 11 06

= OpenOntologyRepository: OOR "Strategy (and Funding)" Discussion Session - Tue 2012_11_06 =

Key Topic for Discussion: OOR Strategy and Funding - "A mini Strategic Planning Brainstorm Session"

Session Chair: PeterYim & KenBaclawski

This is also consider a regular monthly OOR Team meeting. Therefore, please refer also to proceedings from last month's team meeting at OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_07, and possibly also our last "OOR Funding" session at OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_21

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Tuesday, 6-Nov-2012
 * Start Time: 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC
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Attendees:

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim (co-chair)
 * KenBaclawski (co-chair)
 * MikeDean
 * MikeBennett (will be late)
 * MichaelGruninger
 * ToddSchneider
 * TillMossakowski
 * BobSmith
 * FrankOlken
 * JohnSowa
 * CoryCasanave


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 * Regrets:

Agenda Ideas:

 * Focused discussion on "OOR Strategy (and Funding)"
 * plan, confirm and make additions to the OOR event calendar
 * get a consensus on whether we want to keep the usual meeting time, or move it earlier by one hour
 * ... (add yours!)

Agenda & Proceedings
Archives:


 * audio recording of the session ... [ 1:25:31 ; mp3 ; 9.79 MB ]
 * chat-transcript of this session

1. Meeting called to order:


 * KenBaclawski & PeterYim took the chair and welcome everyone
 * PeterYim volunteered to collate the notes, but encouraged everyone to capture their thoughts and document them on the chat board, as usual.
 * review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:


 * see above


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

3. Key discussion: OOR Strategy and Funding - "A mini Strategic Planning Brainstorm Session"

3.1 The "classic" (7-step) Strategic Planning process:


 * (i) Preparation & planning
 * (ii) Strategic Analyses
 * (iii) Set direction/strategy
 * (iv) Formulate tactics / Plan Actions
 * (v) Communicate Plans
 * (vi) Take action / Implement
 * (vii)Measure/evaluate results and fine tune strategy and tactics
 * re-iterate process

3.2 Let's focus today's discussion on (ii), (iii) & (iv)

3.3 (ii) Strategic Analyses - SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

3.4 For (iii) & (iv), let us make sure we stay "relevant" - and shape ours using the Curt Carlson / SRI "NABC" model ...


 * (N) Needs
 * (A) Approach
 * (B) Benefit
 * (C) Competition

3.5 Discussion: strategically, what shall we be doing differently in the next 12 to 36 months

3.6 Discussion: tactically, what shall we be doing differently in the next 6 to 12 months

3.7 Discussion: how shall we get our resources / funding

3.8 Action Plans

3.9 Setting the metrics - what does "success" look like

4. References: most of the content below are inherited from the previous call(s), and will be edited/updated as this meeting progresses ...


 * 4.1 upcoming activities / virtual-session planning
 * Scheduled:
 * need to be rescheduled: 2012_10_23 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-IX" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean & MichaelGruninger
 * Michael will try to engage TillMossakowski, and hopefully, through this session, start getting more integration between the Ontohub and the OOR activities
 * done!: 2012_10_25 - Thursday: Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontology-based Standards" mini-series session-1: Sharing Experiences-I - Co-chairs: ElisaKendall &amp; PeterYim - Speakers: JamesStPierre, ChetEnsign, AndrewWatson, DeniseWarzel, MichaelGruninger, LeoObrst, KenBaclawski, EricChan - ConferenceCall_2012_10_25
 * 2012_11_08 - Thursday: Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontology-based Standards" mini-series session-2: Sharing Experiences-II - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger &amp; EricChan - Panelists: ElisaKendall, MarkLinehan, DavideSottara - ConferenceCall_2012_11_08
 * To be scheduled:
 * OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XV - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider
 * OOR Infrastructure-II - Chair: PeterYim - pending: possibly after our next update on the ncbo-appliance vm


 * 4.2 Member activities updates - Review: members and OOR-related activities (2012.07.10) ... (deferred discussion of this item)
 * 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


 * 4.3 Action planning for "content drive" (getting people to upload ontologies) ... (deferred discussion of this item)
 * (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 2011.08.07)'' ...
 * ref. IAOA Committee and SIG session at FOIS (2012.07.25) discussion:
 * IAOA Ontology Registry and Repository Committee to put focus on contents
 * getting FOIS papers to be submitted with cited ontologies and their metadata, and have those ontologies hosted on OOR


 * 4.4 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
 * we will tackle this in the upcoming "dedicated" session, where we will start by strategizing how we might proceed ... ref above.


 * 4.5 OOR instances OOR: status update and coordination ... (deferred discussion of this item)
 * OOR: sandbox, devbox, test-instance, socop, colore, ontohub, 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 ...


 * 4.6 Getting us to a stage when we can run a OOR-production box ... (deferred discussion of this item)
 * we need a gatekeeping/policy module in place - [KenBaclawski]

5. IM Chat Transcript captured during the session:
see raw transcript here.

(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 --

PeterYim: welcome to the

= OpenOntologyRepository: OOR "Strategy and Funding" Discussion Session - Tue 2012_11_06 =

session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_06

Proceedings:
[07:33] PeterYim: Ken is in! Let's get started

[07:46] PeterYim: == brainstorming - on the steps (ii) (iii) & (iv) of a strategic planning exercise - ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_06#nid3HMW

[07:47] PeterYim: ALL: please approach this wearing your hat as a Designer, Planning and Convening the OOR Initiative

[07:54] PeterYim: personally, I see OOR as a community driven "collaborative" effort in (A) infrastructure, (B) software/system development, and (C) content

[07:43] MichaelGruninger: What is the role of OOR sessions: (1) distributed software development of OOR as an artifact. (2) Forum for general issues related to ontology repositories, such as modularity, provenance, versioning.

[07:47] KenBaclawski: @Michael I would add these: (3) OOR as a standard API for the purposes of interoperability and federation (i.e., operationally), (4) Increasing content.

[07:45] MichaelGruninger: With respect to content, OOR will be most successful when it plays a role in ontology best practices. For example, encouraging authors of ontology papers in conferences (such as FOIS, WOMO, FOMI) and journals (Applied Ontology, Artificial Intelligence, ...) to submit their ontologies to an OOR instance.

[07:47] MichaelGruninger: OOR needs to more actively engage other projects that are related to ontology repositories

[07:45] ToddSchneider: Project Management

[07:46] BobSmith: What is the primary purpose of an OOR Strategy? (Assumes variety of audience: Such as Big BUILDING and City DATA MODELS with the Natl Institute of Building Standards' National Building Information Modeling Standard 3.0 (just starting)

[07:50] BobSmith: A "current" and perhaps temporary "Threat" to Seaboard Cities such as NYC Atlantic City, Huntington Beach, San Francisco is Sea Level Rise and rethinking City Building Codes and infrastructure requirements at Federal, State, Regional, and Local levels. Some States, such as Calif., have a Chief Enterprise Architect and a Chief GIS Officer with potential great needs for OGC - like ontology references

[07:48] CoryCasanave: Eventually this would need to be done under some standards org like OMG, W3C or OASIS

[07:50] KenBaclawski: Related standards already exist: MDR, OMV; and others are in progress: MFI. No doubt there are others. It should be a standard built on existing standards.

[07:52] ToddSchneider: Cory, couldn't we continue with our development and then at some point in the future approach a standards body?

[07:56] FrankOlken: Technically, W3C is not an accredited standards organization like ANSI, ISO, or OMG.

[08:04] FrankOlken: Many of the standards organizations (e.g., ANSI L8 and ISO SC32 for Metadata Registry Std) have preexisting commitments to possibly overlapping standards (such as ISO/IEC 11179 or various OMG standards) which they may want us to conform to.

[07:53] anonymous morphed into JohnSowa

[07:56] JohnSowa: The best standards are almost always a clean up of some de facto standard. A good example is ECMAScript, which cleaned up JavaScript.

[08:08] MichaelGruninger: I'm not sure that OOR should be considered as a standards project. We are providing infrastructure that uses existing standards for ontology representation and relationships.

[08:09] MichaelGruninger: We only need to guarantee that ontologies in different repositories can be uniformly accessed and described; standards for these aspects already exist

[08:00] JohnSowa: I don't believe that any technology should be proposed as a standard until there are some successful applications. The standards organizations once tried the idea of "proactive standards". But without some practical applications, it's a bad idea to propose any design as a standard.

[08:01] KenBaclawski: John, would you regard BioPortal as an example of a successful repository project?

[08:00] PeterYim: who could be our "role models" for (A), (B) and (C)?

[08:01] PeterYim: MikeDean has suggested, previously, that the Apache Foundation would be a good role model for (B)

[08:08] ToddSchneider: Have to go. Cheers.

[08:10] PeterYim: update: incorporating Gruninger and Baclawski's inputs above: look at the OOR Initiative as a community driven "collaborative" effort in: (A) infrastructure, (B) software/system development, (C) content development, (D) standards (architecture, API, protocol, metadata, etc.) development, and (E) a community Forum for general issues related to ontology repositories ... (in no particular order)

[08:11] CoryCasanave: In summary: I support continuing with the implementations track and that implementation work may best be done under Apache or something similar. These implementations will use existing standards but may also indicate the need for others. We should consider collaboration with an SDO and think about the roadmap to do so.

[08:11] MichaelGruninger: To some extent, OOR should be involved in a bit of a culture change -- rather than everyone developing their ontologies in isolation, OOR should provide the infrastructure that will finally deliver the promise of ontology sharing and reuse.

[08:12] MikeBennett: @Michael agreed. That seems to suggest two distinct threads of activity: - 1. syntactic; 2. semantic.

[08:14] CoryCasanave: @Michael: Much of the tooling and infrastructure is centered on developing ontologies rather than reusing them.

[08:14] CoryCasanave: @Michael: So yes, focusing on the collaboration and reuse is very important

[08:20] TillMossakowski: OOR has a nice infrastructure diagram (see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture/Candidate03 ), the only drawback being that it has not been implemented so far. The only existing implementation seems to be BioPortal, but BioPortal does not follow the OOR architecture. To remedy this situation, we have started Ontohub (http://ontohub.org - sources at https://github.com/ontohub/ontohub ), which starts with an architecture simpler than OOR's, but with the goal to be eventually extended to that architecture. The semantic background is provided by the OntoIOp ISO standard initiative, providing a semantics for federated ontologies involving different languages like OWL, RDF, Common Logic, UML. Ontohub.org could be federated with BioPortal in the future.

[08:12] JohnSowa: I support Till's idea.

[08:13] JohnSowa: If and when Bioportal is extended to support Ontoiop + Common Logic + other standards, then it would be a good example.

[08:15] JohnSowa: There is no difference between development, maintenance, and reuse. All large development projects build on and extend other implementations.

[08:19] JohnSowa: I have also spoken with some people in medical informatics, who have been very unhappy about the "pressure" they have felt to use ontologies in BioPortal. That is a serious danger of premature standards -- they can block innovation.

[08:26] MichaelGruninger: References to standardization in OOR are premature and/or misdirected. The only standards that are relevant (for ontology representation, ontology relationships, ontology metadata) already exist or are under development. We only need to guarantee that ontologies can be imported/exported between repositories and that there are protocols for software applications to uniformly access ontologies within ontology repositories.

[08:27] TillMossakowski: is there a list of these standards (also explaining their use for OOR)?

[08:27] MichaelGruninger: Ontology representation language standards: RDF, OWL, Common Logic

[08:28] MichaelGruninger: Ontology relationship standards (under development): OntoIOp

[08:28] MichaelGruninger: Ontology metadata standards: OMV (?)

[08:31] TillMossakowski: probably also REST or SOAP for communication among repository components (although I am not sure whether these are standards...)

[08:31] PeterYim: if we were to tweak our strategy, and bring us from moving toward irrelevance to moving towards the center of attention - I suggest we re-focus our OOR efforts to revolve around (hot themes like) (I) BigData- BigSystems (ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2012 ), and (II) Ontology-based Standard (ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyBasedStandards )

[08:32] PeterYim: ALL: please suggest how that "re-focus" or "tweak" would look like

[08:32] PeterYim: ALL: also, there may be similar themes that are just as compelling, please suggest what they are?

[08:49] MikeBennett: I would strongly support (II) at least

[08:32] TillMossakowski: sorry, have to leave now, will read chat later, so please go on capturing the discussion...

[08:33] PeterYim: thanks for joining us, Till. Before you go, please list times on Tuesdays that might work well for you (1 to 1.5 Hr slots)

[08:33] PeterYim: @Till - we do hope you can join us regularly on future OOR meetings

[08:34] TillMossakowski: yes, sure. Generally anything before 6 pm CET works for me on Tuesdays.

[08:35] PeterYim: @Till - thanks

[08:35] FrankOlken: By John's logic SQL would have adopted some sort of backward compatibility to CODASYL databases.

[08:38] FrankOlken: Rules folks also have RuleML.

[08:45] FrankOlken: As I recall, Datalog is more expressive than SQL, i.e., with respect to recursive queries.

[08:46] FrankOlken: (ref. JohnSowa's verbal suggestion that the industry should go with "Typed Datalog") Typed Datalog would be interesting. I am not sure this is the right setting to develop (or standardize) such a thing.

[08:58] JohnSowa: ... the typed Datalog would include the SQL WHERE-clause as a proper subset. It would also include SPARQL as a proper subset -- except for the FILTER and OPT abominations.

[08:54] PeterYim: proposal: we re-focus our OOR efforts to revolve around: (I) BigData- BigSystems (ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2012 ), and (II) Ontology-based Standards (ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyBasedStandards )

[09:00] PeterYim: we have consensus on the above, but will need to elaborate and work on the details on how adopting (I) & (II) would impact (A) thru (E)

[09:02] KenBaclawski: The meeting time was moved to 7:30am PST.

[09:04] PeterYim: [consensus] going forward, regular OOR meetings will be on Tuesdays, starting 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC (like today, which is one hour earlier than before) - session duration: ~1.5 Hours.

[09:05] PeterYim: no meeting next Tuesday, as ISWC is in session

[09:06] PeterYim: therefore, our next OOR meeting will be on Tue Nov-20, starting 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC ... we will continue today's conversation, and will drill down (go more granular) until we get to specifics on tactics and action plans given the re-focused short/medium-term direction

[09:06] PeterYim: great meeting!

[09:07] PeterYim: -- session ended: 9:03am PST --

[09:08] List of attendees: BobSmith, CoryCasanave, FrankOlken, JohnSowa, KenBaclawski, MichaelGruninger, MikeBennett, MikeDean, PeterYim, TillMossakowski, ToddSchneider.

-- end in-session chat-transcript --

6. (Other) Action items:


 * we reached consensus today that we will re-focus our OOR efforts to revolve around: (I) BigData- BigSystems (ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2012 ), and (II) Ontology-based Standards (ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyBasedStandards ) ... but we will need to elaborate and work on the details on how adopting (I) & (II) would impact the various facets of the OOR Initiatives, namely,
 * the different facets of the OOR Initiative (i.e. we can looks at "OOR" as being a project on):
 * (A) infrastructure,
 * (B) software/system development,
 * (C) content,
 * (D) a standard API (architecture, reference model, protocols, metadata standard(s), etc.) and
 * (E) a community Forum for general issues related to ontology repositories ... (in no particular order)

7. Any Other Business:



8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:


 * Next Meetings:
 * 2012_11_08 - Thursday: Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontology-based Standards" mini-series session-2: Sharing Experiences-II: Exemplary OMG efforts - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & EricChan - ConferenceCall_2012_11_08
 * 2012_11_13 - No OOR meeting, as ISWC is in session (in Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
 * 2012_11_20 - Tue: "OOR Strategy, Tactics & Action plans - a continuation of today's discussion" - start-time: 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC
 * 2012_12_04 - Tuesday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_12_04
 * do we want to keep the usual Tuesday OOR meeting time, or move it earlier by one hour?
 * [consensus] from now on (and until further notice) we will change the regular Tuesday meeting time to: 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC (just like today; one hour earlier than before.)
 * ... please mark your calendars and come!


 * Call adjourned at: 9:03 am PST

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2012.10.30-11:57am PST 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


 * [[OOR Architecture & API Workshops:
 * 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_09_11 - Tuesday: "OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XIII" (a.k.a. "OOR Use Cases - Take-4") - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_09_11


 * OOR] Code Development Workshops:
 * 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


 * OOR Metadata Workshops:
 * 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


 * 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


 * OOR Content Workshops:
 * 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


 * OOR for Big Data Workshops:
 * 2012_08_14 - Tuesday: OOR for Big Data-I: Brainstorm Session - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_14


 * the OOR Funding workshops:
 * 2012_08_21 - Tuesday: OOR Funding-II: "Rethinking our Funding Strategy" Brainstorm Session - Chair: KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_21
 * 2012_10_09 - Tuesday: OOR Strategy & Funding-III: "A mini- Strategic Planning" Brainstorm Session - Co-chairs: PeterYim & KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_10_09


 * 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
 * 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_09_20 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-4: "Common Logic" - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & JohnBateman - ConferenceCall_2012_09_20


 * the Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontology-based Standards" mini-series:
 * 2012_10_25 - Thursday: Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontology-based Standards" mini-series session-1: Sharing Experiences-I - Co-chairs: ElisaKendall & PeterYim - Speakers: JamesStPierre, ChetEnsign, AndrewWatson, DeniseWarzel, MichaelGruninger, LeoObrst, KenBaclawski, EricChan - ConferenceCall_2012_10_25
 * 2012_11_08 - Thursday: Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontology-based Standards" mini-series session-2: Sharing Experiences-II - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & EricChan - Panelists: ElisaKendall, MarkLinehan, DavideSottara - ConferenceCall_2012_11_08


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


 * 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