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Devices Ontology WG Mtg 2010.03.30

Agenda/minutes for Device Ontology Working Group meeting 2010.03.30

Etherpad

http://etherpad.com/devont20100330

Agenda

Logistics: Welcome, Minutes Review, Agenda Review
Misc: new SVN and tracker
Summary of recent activities
1. Bob Arko's multibeam ontology as an extension of the Device Ontology
2. Bob Morris's proposal to use Inversion of Control as an ontology extension mechanism
Other topics
Next steps
End Logistics: Next meeting, Action items, Attendees

Minutes

Logistics: Welcome, Minutes Review, Agenda Review, Etherpad

Minutes review
Agenda approval
Etherpad: see link above.

Miscelaneous

New project 'devont' at Google Code to:

maintain the ontology and related artifacts using the SVN version control as a backup of the ontology in the ORR.
use the tracker system for action items and other tasks.

Latest version of the DevOnt from SourceForge already commited to 'devont' under tag 20100104.

Bob Arko's multibeam ontology as an extension of the Device Ontology

The Poster at OS'10

http://mmisw.org/ont/r2r/multibeam

Not discussed.

Bob Morris's proposal to use Inversion of Control as an ontology extension mechanism

Email describing inversion of control writeup

Inversion of Control writeup (see comments recently added)

Discussion:

Various aspects were discussed.
Synonyms for models and synonyms for other concepts
- This is a process; the way synonymy is captured now can be generalized later
Units of Measure
- how to make the ontology extensible in terms of concrete UOM conventions
Sonar, DevOnt

Please note the recent comments added to:

Next steps

Continue leveraging (and improving) the device ontology via Case Studies:
- Multibeam ontology
- Others
It is proposed that each Case Study:
- be documented in a MMI page
- respective ontology(ies) be registered in the ORR
- related publication(s) be prepared

Other

BobM: Here are some ontology "competency questions" from Dave Thau, who is working on a biodiversity ontology for the Atlas of Living Australia. They are not applicable to MMI, but are illustrations of a methodolgy that might be useful to MMI http://code.google.com/p/ala-bie/wiki/OntologyCompetency