Re: strategy for an initial ontology

Hi John et al,

this is great an very timely. I think we should present this at the OGC
meeting. I am updating the presentations and would be great if I could add
one slide summarizing the process. Could you do this ?

Also, could I have one slide for the other work product ?

I am also adding screen shots of other ontologies and links that were
missing.

Presentation is tomorrow, Wednesday in the afternoon ET.

-luis

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM, John Graybeal <graybeal@mbari.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> This email contains a description of the process we'll start with for the
> Ontology development, and a request for volunteers. Please take a quick look
> now to see if you can help out.
>
> To begin creating an ontology, the Semantic Sensor Net Ontology work
> product [1] wanted to start with a quick review of existing ontologies,
> selecting the best material from one or several as our starting point.
>  There are several lists of ontologies and similar references that may be
> useful [2,3,4].
>
> We are trying to put the key ones to consider in our Ontology list [5]; I
> heard of one more this morning, it can be added to this list. Anyone is
> welcome to nominate any other information source before the meeting
> (especially if you can help talk about it).
>
> At the next meeting (Wed July 1), we would like to briefly review each of
> these ontologies, describing key characteristics of each for our purposes.
> To do this, we will need a volunteer to talk about each ontology (less than
> 5 minutes each).  Some folks have already been, umm, volunteered, as shown
> on the list at [5].
>
> We are thinking certain attributes should be mentioned about each ontology,
> as it is presented. A notional list of these attributes has been created
> [6]; please feel free to edit or comment on this list.  In addition, if you
> are presenting, it would help if you could look over the ontology enough to
> be familiar with it, and answer other simple questions that may come up.
>
> If you have any questions, please contact me.  If you are willing to talk
> about one (or more!) of these ontologies, please contact me or put your name
> on the list [5].  Thanks very much for any help you can provide.
>
> John
>
>
> [1] Ontology Work Product page:
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/wiki/Semantic_Sensor_Net_Ontology
> [2] MMI Sensor-related ontologies:
> http://marinemetadata.org/sensorontologies
> [3] MMI Device Ontology group ontologies page (graphical):
> http://marinemetadata.org/community/teams/ontdevices/ontdevrel
> [4] SSN Communities list (several indirectly related ontologies):
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/wiki/Communities
> [5] SSN Key Ontologies Reference List:
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/wiki/SSN_Key_Ontologies_Reference_List
> [6] SSN Key Ontology Attributes:
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/wiki/SSN_Suggested_Key_Ontology_Intro_Attributes
>
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> Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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