Devices Ontology Working Group Meeting 2007.10.09

A. Logistics and Such

1. Note Taker.
2. Comments/corrections of last minutes.
3. Comments/corrections on Agenda.
4. Roll Call.

B. Status of Action Items

1. [John] Grant editing priveleges to the devices ontology folder to all participants who are members of MMI
2. [John, Luis] Set up TRAC and Subversion for OWL and text documents, and describe a process. Email everyone to review it.
3. [John] Update the Goal section and circulate it for further comment.
4. [Luis] Create use case framework.
5. [John] Get statements of agreement from other organizations.

C. Personal Information

Roy correctly pointed out that a little information on each participant would be helpful. I propose to create a Participants page to capture this information, and ask each participant to update their entry or send info to a person who can update the page. Contents would include name, pointer to a home page, current institution(s), and brief goal for participation. Objections?

D. Review of use cases

Just a few simple use cases have been published to date. We need to improve upon these considerably, making them much more precise and reflective of our goals. Can we form a team to do this?

E. Discussion of Collaborative Protege and Alternatives

On 4 October Dr. Tania Tudorache presented a very tidy summary of the state of the art in collaborative ontology development. I would like to briefly recap key points of her presentation, which is accessible from the Ontolog web site. (Both presentation and audio are available.) I'd like to use this material to kick-start a discussion of possible approaches to our own task. If you have time, I highly recommend a quick look at the presentation, it is very informative.

F. Volunteers Needed

This effort will need to be distributed among the many highly tasked members of the team. Tasks for which we need volunteers include the following:

1. Use cases
2. References
3. Minutes
4. Participants Page
5. Site organization

Notes of Meeting

A. Logistics and Such

1. Note Taker. Thanks Pieter!
2. Comments/corrections of last minutes.
   Left 2 people off; now fixed.
3. Comments/corrections on Agenda. none
4. Roll Call.

B. Status of Action Items

1. [John] Grant editing priveleges to the devices ontology folder to all participants who are members of MMI
   This is done and working.
2. [John, Luis] Set up TRAC and Subversion for OWL and text documents, and describe a process. Email everyone to review it.
   Under way. The alternative of Drupal was mentioned, but we should stick with TRAC and Subversion. Which will be ready before next telecon.
3. [John] Update the Goal section and circulate it for further comment. DONE
4. [Luis] Create use case framework
   DONE but it should be fleshed out. Lets first start with a page-based approach to store the use cases and move to TRAC later on.
5. [John] Get statements of agreement from other organizations.
   Not yet done, next telecon (or later).

C. Personal Information

Roy correctly pointed out that a little information on each participant would be helpful. I propose to create a Participants page to capture this information, and ask each participant to update their entry or send info to a person who can update the page. Contents would include name, pointer to a home page, current institution(s), and brief goal for participation. Objections?

D. Review of use cases

E. Discussion of Collaborative Protege and Alternatives

F. Volunteers Needed

This effort will need to be distributed among the many highly tasked members of the team. Tasks for which we need volunteers include the following:

1. Use cases Roy agreed to clean these up. Thanks!
2. References
3. Minutes
4. Participants Page
5. Site organization
6. Example ontologies in standard form

Attendees