Revised Reminder: W3C HCLS Scientific Discourse concall March 6, 11am - 12 noon EST

Dear Sci Discourse participants,

A reminder to dial in for this week's concall (note corrected date  
below).  Sudeshna Das is our featured discussant and will put forward  
an integration approach for discourse and experiments using the SAAGE  
project as a testbed, and will be recruiting colleagues to participate  
in building a first-pass integrated ontology.  This is an opportunity  
for people interested in the practice of constructing ontologies "very  
close to the ground", that is, rooted in direct requirements and  
activities of practicing biologists and using a minimalist "agile"  
approach.

Next call (March 20) John Madden from Duke University, who chairs the  
HCLS Terminology task, will talk to us about SKOS and terminology.   
There has been a lot of discussion about terminologies versus  
ontologies, what they are each good for, and how to use them  
judiciously.  This will be a great opportunity to weigh in this  
topic.  SWAN/SIOC supports integration of SKOS terminologies and we  
will discuss use cases for various kinds of terminologies, setting up  
terminology libraries etc.

Best

Tim

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

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