SWAO:Conference Call 20160801

Number 34
Duration 1 hour60 minute
3,600 second
0.0417 day
Date/Time August 01 2016 15:30 GMT
8:30 PDT/11:30 EDT
4:30pm BST/5:30pm CET
Convener Mike Bennett

IAOA Semantic Web Applied Ontology (SWAO) SIG

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

  • since the join.conference seemed to have been disabled or discontinued last time, we will use GoToMeeting today.

The main agenda item is next steps on the AO Special Edition.

Agenda

  • Issue of the Journal of Applied Ontology
    • Status update
    • Notification Responses sent for submitted papers, except one
    • Revised Papers status and progress
    • New papers: Hackathon etc. actions
    • Editorial for Special Edition
  • Housekeeping
    • What happened to join.conference and is it permanent?
    • Any new updates?
  • Other Things
    • Moving or changing the SWAO Blog?
  • AOB
  • Next Meeting

Proceedings

[11:30] MikeBennett:

  • Agenda
  • Issue of the Journal of Applied Ontology
  • Status update
  • Notification Responses sent for submitted papers, except one
  • Revised Papers status and progress
  • New papers: Hackathon etc. actions
  • Editorial for Special Edition
  • Housekeeping
  • What happened to join.conference and is it permanent?
  • Any new updates?
  • Other Things
  • Moving or changing the SWAO Blog?
  • AOB
  • Next Meeting

[11:39] MikeBennett: Infrastructure

[11:39] MikeBennett: The bridge is definitely gone

[11:39] MikeBennett: Mailing list is OK with OVGU

[11:39] MikeBennett: Other resources - Ken is funding some of this, needs a long term funding resolution

[11:40] MikeBennett: Specifically, the wiki is funded by Ken (this is on Digital Ocean)

[11:41] MikeBennett: The ontologforum.org and other domains also have annual domain renewal fees.

[11:41] MikeBennett: Mike will aim to reconvene the BoT this week or next week.

[11:41] MikeBennett: Other items:

[11:42] MikeBennett: The Repository (the one for all the documents on the wiki) is hosted at Amazon S3.

[11:43] MikeBennett: Peter is still apparently doing a thing. This would be the archive of all the old stuff, which is still not fully moved over to the Amazon repository

[11:44] MikeBennett: There are still links in the rest of the world, to Peter's original domain, which sometimes resolves and sometimes doesn't. Hence the need for Amazon to store this material.

[11:45] MikeBennett: Similarly, useful resource pages, not all of which we knew were there, are still hosted on cim3.

[11:45] MikeBennett: For instance:

[11:45] MikeBennett: Edu:Term List

[11:46] MikeBennett: These will eventually be brought into the new wiki but this process takes time.

[11:46] MikeBennett: There is code that Ken has to help with that.

[11:47] MikeBennett: MediaWiki is the tool we are using now, but it lacks direct access to the database which limits what you can do. So Ken has written a service which addresses that issue.

[11:47] AndreaWesterinen: I am part of the education committee.

[11:48] AndreaWesterinen: That is where the ontology terminology is.

[11:49] MikeBennett: So, does the Education committee need access to any of the services we were talking about above?

[11:49] MikeBennett: We also need to be able to update the page linked above.

[11:52] AndreaWesterinen: Edu:Term_List

[11:54] MikeBennett: This means that the Education Committee pages do not need to be migrated to Ken's wiki structures, though it would be helpful to have a link from there.

[11:54] MikeBennett: Meanwhile we would benefit from better integration among the IAOA resources.

[11:55] MikeBennett: Also the Wikipedia pages about IAOA need to be more proactively managed.

[11:55] MikeBennett: This could also fall to the Education Committee, who meet this Wednesday/

[11:57] MikeBennett: There are also new terms that are needed, that came up on Nicola's most recent course (co-presented with Giancarlo). These are in a paper that the 2 of them are working on.

[11:57] MikeBennett: Things like Sortal. Some are on the EC website and some are not.

[11:59] MikeBennett: so this goes into deep concepts that need to be modeled, as well as the usage of high level terms like Ontology and been "Notion"

[12:01] MikeBennett: We still have no clear picture of what the infrastructure actually is. Need to make is explicit.

[12:02] MikeBennett: This all needs to be written on a page somewhere.


[12:02] KenBaclawski: SWAO:Procedures

[12:03] KenBaclawski: http://ontologforum.org/index.php?title=Procedures&oldid=22303#hid4

[12:04] MikeBennett: It merits a separate page for what it takes to make the actual things exist. For example where is ontologforum.org actually running (Digital Ocean)); who knows it (Ken) and so on.

[12:05] AndreaWesterinen: But OntologyForum is not = IAOA.

[12:09] MikeBennett: Ontolog Forum BoT will be 4th. 12:30 Eastern Time (normal Ontolog slot).

[12:17] AndreaWesterinen: http://www.ninepts.com/solutions/tools/ontograph/

[12:25] AndreaWesterinen: Note that my other paper will arrive by next Monday.

[12:27] MikeBennett: Blog - no time right now.

[12:27] MikeBennett: AoB?

[12:27] MikeBennett: Adjourn

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