Ocean Observing Systems Semantic Interoperability Workshop Series
In cooperation with Gulf of Mexico Coastal Observing System (GCOOS), and the QARTOD-to-OGC (Q2O) project, MMI is hosting a series of two workshops to significantly advance semantic interoperability for ocean observing.
The Ocean Observing System Semantic Interoperability Workshop Series involves two meetings, and the development of information and applications between them.
Ocean Observing Systems Interoperability Planning
The first meeting, August 26-28, 2008, will bring together a few key representatives of ongoing data system and application development projects, along with teams from GCOOS and Q2O, to review tools and processes enabling semantic interoperability. This meeting will also allocate responsibilities among the attendees, for system and knowledge development, to be performed leading up to the second workshop. The first meeting includes both training and strategic planning activities.
After the first meeting, attendees will develop knowledge, infrastructure, and applications components, according to their agreed assignments and timelines. Regular telecons will be held to coordinate activities in each of these three areas. This will also be when prospective attendees of the second meeting will participate in training and collaborative activities to ensure their readiness for the meeting.
Ocean Observing Systems Semantic Interoperability!
The second workshop (November 17-20, 2008) will be larger, more comprehensive, and involve many more individuals and teams. This will be a knowledge integration exercise, in which teams (or on some small projects, individuals) establish the relationship between vocabulary terms in their domain. Much of this work will be done in advance, but the workshop will provide the opportunity to discuss and resolve more detailed issues, share experiences and recommendations with attendees working in other domains, and accelerate progress on the longer-term interoperability projects.
Throughout the second meeting, participants will be using (and evaluating) the semantic interoperability infrastructure that has been developed by the participating technical projects. The culmination of the meeting will be the demonstration of application technologies that can use the same infrastructure to achieve scientific results.
Participation
Collaboration on technical developments for this framework is also possible without attending the first workshop; contact John for more information on that.)
The second "Semantic Interoperability!" meeting will be open to any individual or team that is willing to perform the necessary pre-meeting preparations. These will be documented. (We hope to provide funding for attendees that need it to attend the workshop, but available resources are not yet well known.) For those who attended the first Advancing Domain Vocabularies workshop, the model will be similar but the tools will be much improved.
