[esip-semantictech] August meeting, and other stuff

[James Gallagher]

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On Aug 3, 2017, at 6:22 PM, Beth Huffer via esip-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> 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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