HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Meetings/2009-02-27 Conference Call
Agenda
- SWAN/SIOC integration with Experiments via SAAGE project: Sudeshna Das
- SWAN/SIOC integration with Lilly Experiment ontology, status update: Susie Stephens
- SWAN/SIOC IG note update: Alex Passant & Paolo Ciccarese
- upcoming discussion on SKOS (preview): Tim Clark
Conference Details
- Date of Call: Friday March 6, 2009
- Time of Call: 11:00am Eastern Time
- Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 (Cambridge, MA)
- Dial-In #: +33.4.89.06.34.99 (Nice, France)
- Dial-In #: +44.117.370.6152 (Bristol, UK)
- Participant Access Code: 4257 ("HCLS")
- IRC Channel: irc.w3.org port 6665 channel #HCLS (see W3C IRC page for details, or see Web IRC)
- Duration: ~1 hour
- Convener: Tim Clark
- Scribe: Susie Stephens
Minutes
Attendees: Egon, AnnaMaria, Paolo, Tim, Elizabeth, David, Matthias, Sudeshna, EricP
<Susie> http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Meetings/2009-02-27_Conference_Call <Susie> Susie gives a status update on the Lilly Experiment ontology <Susie> Yimin has written a justification to participate in the group <Susie> Susie to enhance the justication <Susie> And then pitch to Yimin's management <Susie> Susie might be able to share proposal with the group <Susie> Hope Yimin will be able to start in April <Susie> Sudeshna gives overview of her project <Susie> Sudeshna wants to query across experimental data <Susie> Sudeshna: focus on stem cells <Susie> Sudeshna: MIAME and MAGE standards <Susie> Describes the MGED schematic posted on the meeting home page <matthias_samwald> Harsh critique of the MGED ontology in a Nature Article: "Are the current ontologies in biology good ontologies?" http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v23/n9/full/nbt0905-1095.html <egonw> metware.org <egonw> skos-based software for metabolomics <Susie> Everyone take a look at SWAN and think about how integration can proceed <Susie> In two weeks John Madden will discuss SKOS <Susie> Tim: Everyone busy trying to get Obama money from NIH <Susie> Paolo: Interest Group Note <Susie> Paolo: Connection to W3C Server failed after some time <Susie> Paolo: Moved to working with Google Docs <Susie> Paolo: Will have first draft by next call <Susie> Paolo: Invite anyone interested to read doc and provide feedback <ericP> paolo_ciccarese, let's join #sysreq after this call and work out this ssh prob <Susie> Paolo: Interested in feedback on topics covered <Susie> Tim: That would be great <Susie> Tim: In 2 weeks, John Madden (Duke) will participate in our call <Susie> Tim: Sudeshna and I had an interesting talk with John at C-SHALS <Susie> Tim: Similar thoughts on value and use of SKOS <Susie> Tim: Community interest in comparing SKOS and OWL <Susie> Tim: Some have strong preferences! <Susie> Tim: John has made 3 attempts of converting SNOMED to OWL <Susie> Tim: John ended up going with SKOS <Susie> EricP: Described value John has with SKOS <Susie> EricP: Interested in comparing use case <Susie> EricP: Pushing for use of stronger semantics <Susie> EricP: Want to see when strong semantics don't work <Susie> Egon: We are using SKOS too <Susie> Tim: Maybe need more OWL representation <Susie> EricP: Find out AC rep for University of Oxford <Susie> EricP: Ian Horrocks is the AC rep <ericP> ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk is the AC rep for University of Oxford <Susie> EricP: annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk <Susie> Tim: Next call in 2 weeks