Agenda
eXtended Metadata Registry (XMDR) Project Participant meeting
and Editing Sessions for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 2 & OMG Standards*
UC Berkeley Faculty Club
April 30 to May 4, 2007
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Special editing session - ISO/IEC 11179 & OMG Information Management Metamodel (IMM)
10:45 am Morning Break
11:00 am Special editing session continued, return to 9:00 am topic when done with DDI
11:30 am Lunch, no host lunch at Faculty Club
12:30 pm Special editing session continued
1:45 pm Afternoon Break
2:00 pm Special editing session continued
5:00 pm Adjourn for the day
May 1, 2007, Tuesday - Presentations about technology and related work (Heyns Room)
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Introduction of participants and opening remarks
9:15 am Presentation from Dutch Water Authority, Water Data Infrastructure (WADI) . This is a practical application of semantic web (RDF/OWL) technology to water information. See: http://www.wadi.nl/uk/index.html -- Zavisa Bjelogrlic
10:15 am Morning Break
10:30 am WADI (continued)
11:30 am Lunch, no host lunch from Faculty Club, bring back to meeting room, general discussion
12:30 pm Presentation from Bob Shoup, LANL
2:00 pm Afternoon Break
2:30 pm Image driven ontology editor, Dan Miranker, Univ Texas, Austin
5:00 pm Adjourn
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Introduction of participants and opening remarks
9:15 am XMDR prototype and content loading: demonstration, discussion, plans for future work
10:30 am Morning Break
10:45 am XMDR prototype continued – plans for web services, UI, APIs
11:45 am Lunch - no host lunch from Faculty Club, bring back to meeting room, general discussion
12:45 pm Content and mapping- Report on status of mapping SIC - NAICS. Status of content acquisition, plans for loading content, and plans for acquiring additional content. Discussion of white paper and presentation on approaches to mapping. Fred Gey and Mala Mehrotra
2:15 pm Afternoon Break
2:45 pm Enhancing MDR - Dongwon Jeong
3:30 pm APIs for XMDR
5:00 pm Adjourn
May 3, Thursday -- XMDR Project (Heyns Room)
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Demonstration of Semantic Mediawiki, and discussion of possible integration information-environment and health
9:45 am Content loading: OMEGA, OpenCyc (water portion), other
10:30 am Morning Break
10:45 am Discussion of potential Demonstrations in the area of water
11:45am Lunch, no host lunch from Faculty Club, bring back to meeting room, general discussion
12:45 pm SPIRE collaboration
1:15 pm Discussion of User Interface
2:30 pm Afternoon Break
2:45 pm Discussion of interactions with other groups--W3C, Ecoterm, Ecoinformatics, Open Forum 2007. Plans for meetings and conferences.
3:45 pm Next steps and scheduling, review meeting conclusions agreements/assignments
5:00 pm Adjourn
May 4, 2007, Friday – Special session on demonstrations for water and health possibly editing session on ISO/IEC 11179-3 (E3) (Heyns Room)
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Discussion of potential demonstrations in area of water
9:30 am Presentation – Sherri De Coronado, Topics: criteria for a “good” terminology (or at least generally accepted criteria). Examples of different kinds of terminologies. Examples of structures of different kinds of terminologies. What various terminologies are used for. What kinds of tools can be used for editing and serving terminologies. Example of what NCI does with EVS and caBIG (structure, environment, editing workflow, production, etc.). Future trend towards collaborative terminology development. Tools that might aid that. A few models for how terminologies are developed (e.g. examples of terminologies created in house or by the community, who curates, how changes get made, etc.).
10:30 am Morning Break
10:45 am Presentation continued
11:45 am Lunch, no host lunch at Faculty Club
12:45 pm Special session continued – potential demonstrations in area of Water
2:45 pm Afternoon Break
3:00 pm Special session continued or possible editing session
5:00 pm Adjourn for the day
*Note: The standards sessions are informal editing and liaison sessions among editors and standards developers with the intention to prepare proposals and to align specifications among several standards. All decisions made here must later be reviewed and accepted by formal actions within the standards development organizations.