[esip-semanticweb] Next Sem Web Call - Tomorrow 10/27

Sun Nov 1 22:52:41 EST 2015

> I'd like to suggest, as a generalist with no institutional stakes in this, that we leave a place for alternatives to the standard web portal with an upload form and a linear search. My sense is that we're hitting the limits of those …

Hi Soren,

With my BioPortal hat on (as of today, I'm the lead of the BioPortal project -- please be nice to me in this role for a while :->), I'd like to explore what you mean by this. 

A 'standard web portal' can cover a wide ground, with APIs and all sort of other things, and still have an upload form and a 'linear' (= simple?) search. But it can also provide many other things -- these things aren't a constraint. I know BioPortal is very interested in pursuing these directions.

And if I slip my MMI ORR hat on for a sec, it has supported straightforward authorship, credit, and provenance metadata entry since it started; supporting other features would not be hard to add.

So can you spell out what exactly is the limiting factor you are concerned about?  Are you just calling out high-functioning capabilities like faceted search and community-anointed ontologies?  Or is it more of the cultural, workflow, and publication social practices?

John

P.S. I've included my Stanford contact info below, and my email there is jgraybeal at stanford.com. BioPortal questions should be directed to the usual support lists, or to me at that address. While I try to keep up with my *other* work mail (jbgraybeal at mindspring.com, the one I have on all these lists) daily, but it's tough.

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John Graybeal
Technical Program Manager
Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval / NCBO BioPortal
Biomedical Informatics Research Division
Stanford University School of Medicine
650-736-1632

On Oct 31, 2015, at 11:14, soren scott via esip-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Line, agreed - ownership, maintainership, preservation, discoverability, credit and citations... Longterm financial support. 
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> I'd like to suggest, as a generalist with no institutional stakes in this, that we leave a place for alternatives to the standard web portal with an upload form and a linear search. My sense is that we're hitting the limits of those as we deal with graph data, bigger data stores and the need to signal more things (quality, trust, authorship, credit, etc). Longer term concerns but we are talking about changing the culture and technology we use needs to support that. Stepping off the soapbox now. 
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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Pouchard, Line C <pouchard at purdue.edu> wrote:
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> This is an important topic, well worth exploring, and find solutions to.  We have encountered that with the ESIP Semantic Web Portal, where people can add their ontologies or rely on the portal administrators to do so.  The portal software requires a contact person and email, and it’s not always clear who that should be.  In addition, when ontologies are extended, we get into versioning issues that bear on governance: for instance, what happens when a new version changes “ownership”?   
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> From: esip-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb-bounces at lists.esipfed.org> on behalf of soren scott via esip-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org>
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> Subject: Re: [esip-semanticweb] Next Sem Web Call - Tomorrow 10/27
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> I'm not sure we'd get all of the interested parties to the semweb business meeting. Just given the timing and all of these kinds of discussions independently ramping up at the same time, it would be beneficial to have a kind of MOU for the spring and then something more structured at the summer meeting. Identify who's in what community WG/IG/cluster to communicate across those parties on the governance activities throughout the spring. 
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> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Nancy Hoebelheinrich <nhoebel at kmotifs.com> wrote:
> I agree that this would be a good session.  Perhaps we could start the discussion at a SemWeb planning discussion at Winter mtg, then bring in people from other ontologies/ organizations to discuss / present for summer? 
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> On Oct 29, 2015, at 9:18 AM, soren scott via esip-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
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> Very late to add to the session topics but one to consider at least for the summer:
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> The governance of ontologies, vocabularies, and other shared resources has been coming up across communities (RDA, EarthCube, ESIP, etc) and across domains (semantic web, software sustainability, documentation, and others). The conversations I've been involved with across those areas are often much the same so what can we share about what works and what doesn't? What are the systems that support some of those governance requirements? And our larger who should be responsible for managing these systems and the objects within?
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> (I include documentation here for things such as code lists (just another structured vocabulary) and schemas.)
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> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Tom Narock via esip-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
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> Reminder that our next ESIP Semantic Web Cluster call is tomorrow, 10/27, at 4pm Eastern time. Topics for discussion are the Semantic Web strategic plan and sessions for the upcoming Winter meeting.
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> Let me know if you have any additional topics to add to the agenda.
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