The MMI Workshop: Advancing Domain Vocabularies

-- Goals -- Agenda -- Domains -- Approach -- Logistics -- Guidance -- Presentations -- Results --

MMI Workshop

The Marine Metadata Interoperability Project hosted a technical workshop August 9-11, 2005, in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop focused on developing mappings between existing marine metadata vocabularies, and making those mapped vocabularies available to users via web services.

Most of the work of the meeting was performed in small, carefully organized breakout teams, oriented around specific domains. These teams made significant progress in associating the different vocabularies already defined in their domain. Shortlly after the workshop, we made the results available for access, ideally via web services. The goals and general strategy are available.

All of the information from this workshop is available on these pages. Please browse the site -- the links at the top of this document point to the different topics -- to learn about topics of interest to you.

Workshop Agenda

We posted the workshop agenda on the web. This agenda was updated as our planning progressed.

As you can see, the workshop was very technically focused. The first morning was spent preparing for the technical work, both with training sessions and reviews of the experience of other ontology development efforts. The remaining 2 1/2 days was largely spent performing technical work in the domain teams.

Domains

The MMI team and domain teams defined the vocabulary areas which will be used for the workshop. Each area was tightly focused, to ensure a complete mapping can be achieved. 6 domain areas were established, with 6-10 participants in each.

Registration and News

As of July 28, we closed registration for this workshop.