SWAO:Conference Call 20141006

Number	12
Duration	1.5 hour90 minute 5,400 second 0.0625 day
Date/Time	Oct 06 2014 14:00 GMT
	7:00 PDT/10:00 EDT
	3:00pm BST/4:00pm CET
Convener	Leo Obrst

IAOA Semantic Web Applied Ontology (SWAO) SIG

Meetings are normally on the first Monday of the month at these times.

Agenda

• Housekeeping
• Continue our discussion on creating an introductory online/training tutorial
  • Update on actions from last time
    • Feedback from Education Committee
    • "Gentle introduction to ontologies" - availability?
  • Tutorial / training requirements
    • Target audiences - what do different groups need to see?
    • Is there anything targeting a business analyst / data management audience?
    • Target media - what do we want to be able to put out?
      • White paper for business people
      • Book - follow up previous discussion on this
  • Existing resources we would want to collate and promote
    • See list of existing and upcoming publications we identified last time
      • Should we aim to maintain a library - or is that in hand via Education Committee?
      • In particular with reference to our mission to bridge the gaps between communities
• Discussion on an issue of the Journal of Applied Ontology related to reuse and lessons learned
• Ontology Summit
  • Extending and discussing the work of 2014 Ontology Summit
  • Ideas for 2015 Ontology Summit?
    • Input / preparation for Ontology Summit planning meeting on Thursday (9 Oct)
• Membership, recruitment etc.
  • Things we can do now the infrastructure is sorted out
  • Brainstorm and share information about people and projects relevant to this SIG and reach out them to make them aware of our existence and maybe invite them for a talk or an informal chat
    • Linked Data
    • Big Data
    • Terminology and related science
  • Establish knowledge base and list of knowledgeable individuals, and understand current work, projects and interests
• AOB
• Next Meeting

List of attendees

Dagmar Gromann, ElieAbiLahoud, Ken Baclawski, Leo Obrst, Mike Bennett, Mike Dean, Todd Schneider

1. Housekeeping

1.1 Fix bugs on: https://iaoa.orgiaoaSIG/iaoaSIG.html

• bad link to SWAO official website from IAOA SIGs page (and misnamed)
• add SWAO SIG to the list in the body of the page

[Action] Leo will help resolving the bugs - contact Oliver.

1.2 SIG Wiki landing page

• Suggestion: the landing page for the Wiki instead of being the current call would be something else, for example a listing of previous meetings and a notice saying when the next meeting is.
• Suggestion 2: list other events and things of interest potentially (High level events e.g. workshops).
• Consensus: One-off ("interesting") meetings - we want those linked to from the SWAO web page, as a one-off link and doesn't need to use the query on the wiki. These would have other attributes e.g. name and place.

[Action] Mike Bennett will suggest something for the landing page.

• Discussion on using using the query facilities that exist in the mediaWiki to automate the update of the SWAO events page.
• Suggestion: have the same query embedded on the SWAO web page as well.

[Action] Ken will see about the automated update of the list of meetings.

• Discussion: for future meetings, email thread and link, or (as for Sept) have nice notes on the wiki page?
• Suggestion: send out an email which points to the minutes, and have the minutes themselves nicely formatted in the wiki page.
• Consensus: preference is to have the minutes on the wiki and the email is just a pointer to these, but the volunteer can choose to do this simply by sending an email to the list.

[Action] Elie to capture the minutes of this meeting and try to upload them on Wiki.

1.3 Migration of the old wiki content

[Action] Ken will be creating meeting pages for the previous meetings (Then the minutes for those previous meetings could be simple links to email in some cases; others have been written up as a document which can be extracted). [Note] First meeting is the only one that's different - was in a different format and is on a different page. [Note] In the minutes on the wiki, the action items are tagged with "Action Item"

2. Education

• Education committee is interested in coordinating.

[Action] Leo to drop a note to Education committee

• Suggestion: Talked about proposing Book as a possible activity for the Summit.
• Consensus: need co-ordination among SWAO, IAOA, OS Organizing Ctee; Ontolog Board of Trustees.

3. Brainstorming of things we as a SIG want to bring to the Thursday Ontology Summit

• Suggestion: a book to mine the 'embedded' knowledge in the Ontolog e-mail and Ontology Summits
• Discussion: anticipate generating slideware as training material through the Ontology Summit (OS) and the Book follows?
• Note: Bear in mind the main OS deliverable is always a Communique.
• Suggestion: OS virtual sessions might constitute the basis of tutorial material for SWAO, that would become eventual chapters of the Book.
• Discussion: Book structure: = structure of OS and Book Content = tutorial SWAO and then => book chapters.

[Action] All, use 9 Oct 2014 OS meeting as an opportunity for to make these distinctions and encourage folks to get involved in this SIG.

• Suggestion: include Conceptual Modeling SIG in this conversation?
• Suggestion: reach out to people from Onto.com and ODISE workshops - focused on Conceptual modeling and ontologies
• Suggestion: other modelling communities, ODM etc.

[Action] MikeB. and Elie reach out and market the SIG among organisers and participants of "OMG Standards in Support of Business Communication" Dec. 2014.

• Suggestion: Attract people to this group on the basis of addressing both aplication and business conceptual ontologies.

4. Next steps from having an issue in Applied Ontology

• News: Green light from Nicolas.
• Suggestion: Special issue would focus on the themes of the last Ontology Summit.
• Note: need to think about the timeline.
• Suggestion: establish a couple of people to focus on this

5. Other Outreach

• Suggestion: reach out to the Conceptual Modeling SIG.
• Suggestion: reach out to Elisa Kendall, Cory Casanave.
• Suggestion: reach out to the ODISE folks.

[Action] MikeB. to reach out to the ODISE.

• Suggestion: reach out Pascal Hitzler, others at the Ontolog Forum.
• Suggestion: reach out to Kingsley Idehen and others in the linked data community.

Audio Recording

• http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/ontology/SWAO/IAOA-SWAO-SIG-ConferenceCall_20141006a.mp3

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