[esip-semantictech] August meeting, and other stuff

[Beth Huffer]

Hello everyone,

In keeping with the grand ESIP tradition of taking August off, we will 
not have a Semantic Tech Committee meeting this month. Our next meeting 
will be September 26.

For those of you who attended the ESIP Summer Meeting, it was great 
seeing you! For those who were there only in spirit, below are a few 
highlights.

Beth

*-Apache Open Source Semantic Tech Tools*

Lewis gave a really great session in which he described some Apache open 
source tools for semantics. It was very well attended. We hope to follow 
that up with a hands-on tutorial at the 2018 Geosemantic Symposium. More 
on that below.

*-Drones and Drone Data*

Several committee members attended the session on Drones and 
Drone-generated data, which was held on the Monday before the start of 
the ESIP Summer Meeting. The Drone Cluster is exploring the use of 
semantic technologies in managing the large volume of data that is being 
generated by drones. If you are interested in this topic, consider 
joining the Drone Cluster.

*-SWEET*

We had a really well-attended un-conference on the subject of SWEET 
sustainment and alignment with other ontologies. We will be working on 
alignment of SWEET with the Environmental Ontology (ENVO) and possibly 
the Chemistry Ontology (CHeBi). Toward that end, a few of us* put 
together a successful FUNding Friday proposal that will allow us to do a 
pilot project to start aligning some portion of the SWEET ontology with 
ENVO. We will be using a tool (yamz.net) developed by the California 
Digital Library for crowd-sourcing terms and their definitions. We will 
identify terms from the SWEET ontology that are good candidates for 
ENVO, or are already in ENVO, and we will present them to the world via 
yamz. Members of the Earth science community will then have an 
opportunity to comment on the term and its definition, to propose an 
alternative definition, or to propose a different term, or some other 
alternative... We will keep the Sem Tech committee informed at every 
step of the way and hope you will all participate in this effort.

*Beth Huffer
*Andrea Thomer
*John Kunze
*Pier Luigi Buttigieg

*-2018 Geosemantics Symposium*

Planning has officially begun for the 2018 Geosemantics Symposium, to be 
held at the beginning of the ESIP Winter Meeting, the week of January 8. 
The theme will be Practical Applications for Ontologies. The morning 
session will be devoted to presentations. The afternoon session will be 
devoted to hands-on tutorials and demos of actual applications. We will 
include a request for some travel funds for guest speakers in our 2018 
budget. More on this soon.

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