[esip-semantictech] August meeting, and other stuff

[Beth Huffer]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your email. Your questions are excellent ones. I started 
writing an email response, but it was getting so long that I worried 
that it might be annoying to send it to the whole list. So I created an 
issue in git (Issue #33 <https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet/issues/33>), 
into which I pasted the content of your email. My response is in a 
comment thereto.

Beth


On 8/3/17 2:39 PM, HUHNS, MICHAEL wrote:
>
> Hi Beth (and Andrea, John, and Pier),
>
> Thanks for sending the highlights. I “attended” several sessions 
> remotely and was able to appreciate the nice description of ENVO that 
> was given, but it was not the same as being there and your highlights 
> help. In that regard, I am interested in your pilot project aligning 
> SWEET and ENVO: I see several possibilities and would like to 
> understand which you intend. The possibilities are
>
> 1.Augment ENVO with terms from SWEET (eventually SWEET might not be 
> needed, because ENVO would be a superset of it)
>
> 2.Augment SWEET with terms from ENVO (eventually ENVO might not be needed)
>
> 3.Augment both SWEET and ENVO with terms from each other (eventually 
> SWEET and ENVO would be identical)
>
> 4.Identify the /intersection/ of SWEET and ENVO, which in some sense 
> would be a core ontology for the environmental domain. It might even 
> be maintained separately, with SWEET and ENVO being unique extensions 
> of it
>
> 5.Create mappings between terms in SWEET and terms in ENVO (this is 
> what Line Pouchard’s student did ~2 years ago), so that the /union/ of 
> SWEET and ENVO could be used, while their separate development could 
> continue.
>
> So, please clarify your approach and let me know how I can help.
>
> One more thing, I have a concern about using yamz, because it appears 
> to operate on one pair of terms at a time. As you know, the power of 
> an ontology is not in the terms and their attached English definition, 
> but is in the /_relationships_/ among the terms. For example, the term 
> “soil” might be a verb or a noun, and this is determined by whether it 
> is a subclass of the term “Process” or a subclass of the term 
> “Physical Object.”
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
> *From:*esip-semanticweb 
> [mailto:esip-semanticweb-bounces at lists.esipfed.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Beth Huffer via esip-semanticweb
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 03, 2017 2:23 PM
> *To:* ESIP Semantic Web Committee <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org>
> *Subject:* [esip-semantictech] August meeting, and other stuff
>
> 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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