[seek-kr-sms] kr issues at kepler meeting

[Joseph Goguen]

Dear Matt and others,

I havent discussed this with Jenny yet, but probably we could put together at
least preliminary ontologies, if the timeline requires doing something before
a new hire can be in place; in any case, we are interested in types and
matching for ontologies, and this could be a useful input for a case study in
that area.

  == joseph

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> Mark,
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> At the Kepler meeting a variety of issues arose regarding the need for 
> some specific ontologies.  Shawn's assessment was that Rich's ontologies 
> were not well-tuned for use in describing actors, and that we need 
> something that is richer than what Chad produced as an initial 
> classification.  Shawn said that Rich's ontology might be better for 
> annotating data, but that it would still need to be extended for our 
> areas of specialization (ENM and biodiversity) as they are currently 
> focused on food webs.  So...the bottom line is that the Kepler group is 
> requesting that the KR group develop some specific ontologies that can 
> be used in the context of Kepler.  Some bugs were entered into bugzilla 
> for this.
> 
> Could you review the Kepler meeting notes on the Kepler web site, review 
> the bugs entered, and talk with Shawn about how to proceed?
> Obviously, much depends upon hiring a replacement for Rich, and the ball 
> is in my court on that one, but it would be good to bring the needs that 
> were expressed to your attention.
> 
> Matt
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