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Devices Ontology WG Mtg 2010.07.27

Agenda/minutes for Device Ontology Working Group meeting 2010.07.27

Agenda

  1. Logistics: Welcome, Minutes Review, Agenda Review
  2. Status, main documentation
  3. Pending facets
  4. Material (link w/ external ontology)
  5. hasServiceAccessPoint
  6. CalibrationValue
  7. End Logistics: Next meeting, Action items, Attendees


Minutes

Note: Meeting started 30 mins later because of schedule conflicts of some participants.

Logistics: Welcome, Minutes Review, Agenda Review

  • google doc "pad": see link above
  • Minutes review -
  • Agenda approval

Status and main documentation

Description updated: http://marinemetadata.org/community/teams/ontdevices/devont

Current DevOnt version: http://mmisw.org/ont/mmi/20100623T004300/device

 

Latest changes:

  • CalibrationValue: removed hasType property and its data range enumeration. It now has a hasValue property with range TypedValue.
    • What are the following existing properties about, hasCount and hasName?
  • EnvironmentalToleranceLimit: 
    • + added "destroyed" to hasConsequence's data range enumeration.
    • + new subclasses SprayTolerance and SubmersionTolerance (these were datatype properties previously).
    • - Removed property hasOtherEnvironmentalToleranceLimit
      Rationale: capturing some "other" env tolerance limit (ie. one that has not explicit class in DevOnt) can be done by instantiating EnvironmentalToleranceLimit itself.
  • + New class ValuedPhysicalProperty (subClassOf ValuedPhysicalProperty)
  • * ValueType: hasUnitsOfMeasure's range is now rdfs:Resource
  • * Buoyancy is now subclass of ValuedPhysicalProperty
  • * Range: minValue and MaxValue props's range is now rdfs:Resource

Pending facets

See http://marinemetadata.org/community/teams/ontdevices/facetoutline

Please help revise the pending facets and propose approaches to incorporate them in ontology, or perhaps discard.

  • John: incorporate all that are straightforward or that do not require much input.
  • 3.b. Interfaces – Not so much important.
  • 7.d.i. Current Location (for un-deployed devices?)
  • 7.d.iii.1: √ Calibrations (related with CalibrationProcedure class) -- John: please check this is the right place here [facets outline].

Material 

Perhaps link with SWEET's substance ontology? See #23.

Should Material be a subclass of ValuedPhysicalProperty, that is, to be able to say that a certain device has a certain material with some value associated, presumably a percent of that material in the composition of the device?

  • Not discussed.

hasServiceAccessPoint

Mechanism to access the data generated by instruments in a deployment:
   Deployment hasServiceAccessPoint anyUri ?
What about separation of data management concerns from the base DevOnt (see issue #10)?

  • Not discussed.

CalibrationValue.hasCount

hasCalibrationValueCount (label: hasCount) domain: CalibrationValue, range: integer [0..1]
What is this property about?

  • Not discussed.

 

End Logistics: Next meeting, Action items, Attendees

Action Items

DevOnt tracker: http://code.google.com/p/devont/issues/list

  • [Nan,Bob A] send instance example (in a CSV-like format) to Luis.
  • [Carlos] complete version of ontology document
  • [?] Determine license
  • [Bob A., Carlos] look into ProcessOutput vs. MeasurementCapability related issues, especially in the context of the Multibeam ontology.
  • [John and Reyna] Follow up on scale references

Next Telecon Time

Next telecon is Tuesday 2010.08.10 at 1500 UTC.

Attendees:

  • Luis Bermudez
  • Nan Galbraith
  • John Graybeal
  • Carlos Rueda

 

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