[esip-semanticweb] User accounts and Uploading ontologies into ESIP semantic testbed

Sun Aug 14 10:05:18 EDT 2011

I just realized this did not go out to the full Semantic Web list.  So...here you go.  Please take it out for a spin to see how well it works...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Kai Liu <kliu4 at gmu.edu>
> Date: July 3, 2011 11:20:20 PM EDT
> To: "Raskin, Rob" <robert.g.raskin at jpl.nasa.gov>
> Cc: Chaowei Yang <cyang3 at gmu.edu>, "Wilson, Brian D" <bdwilson at jpl.nasa.gov>, "arezgui at gmu.edu" <arezgui at gmu.edu>, "Hua, Hook" <hook.hua at jpl.nasa.gov>, "Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)" <christopher.s.lynnes at nasa.gov>
> Subject: Re: Status of Testbed ------
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> We have updated the ESIP Semantic Testbed these days. Now its endpoind is http://testbed.gmu.edu and the help page is http://testbed.gmu.edu/help. Every user can register his account and then upload his ontology and instance data.
> 
> If you have some comments, please don't hesitate to send to me. 
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> 
> Kai
> Joint Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing
> 703-395-2337
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wilson, Brian D (335G)" <bdwilson at jpl.nasa.gov>
> Date: Monday, June 20, 2011 0:17 am
> Subject: RE: RE: Fwd: Status of Testbed ------
> 
>> 
>> Hello Kai,
>> 
>> I wasn't at the last ESIP Federation meeting for the all-day 
>> tutorial, but some of the
>> folks mentioned some improvements they wanted to support an 
>> expanded tutorial.
>> 
>> (1) Capability to work in your own sandbox
>> (2) Capability to add your own ontology (could be related to 1)
>> (3) Able to easily add your own instance data
>> 
>> The highest priority was to have each user be able to work in 
>> their own
>> sandbox, which perhaps makes it easier to implement items 2 and 3.
>> 
>> I'm cc'ing Hook Hua and Chris Lynnes on this email.  They should 
>> be able
>> to provide some more specifics.
>> 
>> We don't expect you to just go off and implement all this.  We 
>> were trying to
>> start a discussion about what would be hard and what would be easy.
>> If some things are hard and you need more funds, then we could go back
>> to the ESIP Fed. with a proposal.
>> 
>> -- Brian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Kai Liu [kliu4 at gmu.edu]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:14 PM
>> To: Wilson, Brian D (335G)
>> Cc: Chaowei Yang; Raskin, Rob (388M); arezgui at gmu.edu
>> Subject: Re: RE: Fwd: Status of Testbed ------
>> 
>> Hi Brian,
>> 
>> Sorry to bother you. Now I am updating the ESIP semantic testbed.  
>> But I didn't receive the requests, so, there are some problems to 
>> decide what should be updated. In Rob's last email, it is 
>> mentioned to support users uploading their own ontologies. I will 
>> update this function asap.
>> 
>> I'm not aware of what else should be updated. Could you please 
>> send me the  other requests that are needed to update in testbed 
>> side? The testbed link is: http://testbed.gmu.edu/swtestbed
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> 
>> Kai
>> Joint Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing
>> 703-395-2337
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Raskin, Rob (388M)" <robert.g.raskin at jpl.nasa.gov>
>> Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:28 pm
>> Subject: RE: Fwd: Status of Testbed ------
>> 
>>> The question was for Kai and Rezgui... We had asked months ago for
>>> the Testbed to support users uploading their own ontologies.
>>> Related to this, is a desire for users to have a sandbox, or
>>> isolated work area. Do you know if these features were created?
>>> 
>>> Brian, were there other requests at that time?
>>> 
>>> -Rob
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> Rob Raskin
>>> Group Supervisor, Science Data Engineering and Archiving
>>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section
>>> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
>>> Pasadena, CA 91109
>>> (818) 354-4228
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Chaowei Yang [cyang3 at gmu.edu]
>>> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 19:54
>>> To: Raskin, Rob (388M); Wilson, Brian D (335G)
>>> Cc: Kai Liu; arezgui at gmu.edu
>>> Subject: Re: Fwd: Status of Testbed ------
>>> 
>>> Rob,
>>> 
>>> Kai restored the testbed and is link them to previous EIE catalogs.
>>> We just decided to put some real effort on semantic on knowledge
>>> reasoning development to close the loop of the semantic testbed. So
>>> would be good to keep the engagement of ESIP semantic cluster for
>>> ontology building. This will become a base for a proposal we are
>>> planning to submit to NSF.
>>> 
>>> On the portal part (guess we don't have to report), but we are
>>> moving that to the cloud computing platform and hope to develop a
>>> default open source portal for NASA cloud services. The portal
>>> technology is also being used for supporting SilvaCarbon, a GEO
>>> forest carbon tracking system and community.
>>> 
>>> Please keep me cc'ed on testbed follow on emails.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Phil
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Raskin, Rob (388M) <robert.g.raskin at jpl.nasa.gov>
>>>> Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:58 PM
>>>> Subject: RE: Status of Testbed
>>>> To: Abdelmounaam Rezgui <arezgui at gmail.com>, "kliu4 at gmu.edu"
>>>> <kliu4 at gmu.edu>Cc: "Wilson, Brian D (335G)" 
>> <bdwilson at jpl.nasa.gov>> >
>>>> 
>>>> Rezgui and Kai-
>>>> 
>>>> Is there an update on the status of the ESIP Testbed activities?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Rob
>>>> 
>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>> Rob Raskin
>>>> Group Supervisor, Science Data Engineering and Archiving
>>>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section
>>>> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
>>>> Pasadena, CA 91109
>>>> (818) 354-4228
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Abdelmounaam Rezgui, PhD
>>>> Research Associate Professor
>>>> Assistant Director, Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing
>>>> College of Science, George Mason University
>>>> Research I Building, 322
>>>> Phone: 703 993 9612
>>>> Email: arezgui at gmu.edu
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 

Christopher Lynnes     
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Center, NASA/GSFC
301-614-5185