[esip-semantictech] [Esip-cor] FW: ESIP Lab Spring RFP

Beth Huffer beth at lingualogica.net
Mon May 13 16:07:42 EDT 2019 

Lewis, John,

During the Earth Science Idol project (an ESIP FUNding Friday project), we were working with YAMZ, and developed a workflow document that would help with requirements.

Beth


From: Esip-cor <esip-cor-bounces at lists.esipfed.org> on behalf of John Graybeal via Esip-cor <esip-cor at lists.esipfed.org>
Reply-To: John Graybeal <jgraybeal at stanford.edu>
Date: Monday, May 13, 2019 at 1:38 PM
To: Lewis John McGibbney <lewis.j.mcgibbney at jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: ESIP-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org>, "Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M) via Esip-cor" <esip-cor at lists.esipfed.org>
Subject: Re: [Esip-cor] FW: ESIP Lab Spring RFP

Thanks for the summary Lewis. My apologies for missing last week's COR call, it somehow was not on my calendar and I saw the email too late.

I have some questions about the applicability of COR for this grant, and how we would get work done.

The RFP says "high-risk, high-reward projects and/or seed funding necessary to demonstrate a proof of concept before applying for larger grants." I suspect that many of these maintenance/upgrade issues would not qualify, unless you've heard differently.

The vocabulary harmonization/management issue is a juicier topic. I think there is a desperate need in the semantic community for a really good manual concept mapper, as far as I am aware. I think the COR concept mapper represents a very good start on that need. With some functional improvements (which I can't quite envision yet from UI perspective :->), I could see it being the start of a very valuable ESIP community tool and contribution to the larger semantic community. Especially if it can be adapted with minor modifications to submit mappings elsewhere, e.g., to another COR repository, or to BioPortal, or to a GitHub repository. I could easily imagine a really useful tool being the basis of further grant applications.

(BTW, I've looked everywhere for Ruth's list but can't find it.  Can you or she point me to it or send it? Maybe this is the start of a more general spec that someone can pick up.)

Let's say we went down the path of pursuing ESIP Lab funds for this. Who is going to do the work?  Ideally someone who would be interested in pursuing further grants, yes? Do you think we need to have identified the implementer before we ask for the funding?

In the end, I think our applications are constrained to things that someone wants to implement, so I'd encourage people to express their interest if either (a) they are willing to do the development support for any or all of these proposals, or (b) they have their own idea for how they want to improve COR.  Does this make sense?

Which brings up GSoC results. It may be that prior interest in COR identifies some people who might be able to execute the software changes for any projects we do submit?

Sorry for the long post, just a lot of things I can't quite picture.

John


On May 13, 2019, at 10:04 AM, Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M) via Esip-cor <esip-cor at lists.esipfed.org<mailto:esip-cor at lists.esipfed.org>> wrote:

Hi Folks,
The Labs CFP is out.
Based on the COR call we had last week, I think that it would be a wise idea for us to put something together.
For those interested, on the COR call we discussed the following
* There is definitely a need for us to engage in some maintenance and upgrade of various components within COR e.g. Update OpenAPI spec from 2.x -> 3.x, write AWS CloudFormation deployment, upgrade AllegroGraph DB, update COR to provide the subscription capability for linked data notifications, etc.
* the' vocabulary harmonization/management' issue is one which is not going to go away. This work has been spearheaded by Ruth, Pier, Gary, Chuck and a few others. Previously it was thought that YAMZ would provide an adequate software solution but it turns out that this is not the case. YAMZ is currently broken and is written in such a way that makes it largely unmaintainable from the ESIP perspective. The community therefore needs to research alternatives to YAMZ which meet stakeholder requirements outlined by Ruth or to spend the time completely overhauling YAMZ to meet those needs.

What we really require is a sense of what the community need is for either of the above proposals.

Would anyone like to chime in here?
Thank you


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   Happy Friday ESIP Community!

   A quick note to say that the ESIP Lab <http://esipfed.org/lab> has released
   our 2019 Spring RFP.

   Projects run six months (August 1- February 1) and lie in the realm of good
   ideas ready to be tried out.

   Proposals that address the following areas will be given priority:

      - Proof-of-concept for emerging technologies.
      - Modernization of Earth science workflows using community recommended
      best practices ? the use of open source software and cloud computing are
      encouraged.
      - Extension of open source software critical to collecting,
      distributing, or analyzing Earth science data.
      - Development or use of Open Data Cubes <https://www.opendatacube.org/>,
      particularly with a focus on delivering data and information to end-user
      communities.

   Find the RFP here: https://www.esipfed.org/rfp

   Find a list of previously funded proposals here:
   https://www.esipfed.org/esip-lab/funding-opportunities

   Annie Burgess, PhD

   Lab Director | Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

   *esipfed.org/lab <http://esipfed.org/lab>* | 585.738.7549

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