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WP4 Standards meeting:setting the agenda
Vince SmithNatural History Museum, London
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Background to WP4Overarching objectives & vision
1. Facilitate integration and harmonisation of distributed data-sets
2. Provide management and dissemination facilities for the necessary ontologies
3. Provide biologists with the necessary flexibility to express their knowledge regardless of whether the terminology has been standardized yet or not. API service
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Our job is to clarify what this means…
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Background to WP4Overarching objectives & vision
1. Facilitate integration and harmonisation of distributed data-sets
2. Provide management and dissemination facilities for the necessary ontologies
3. Provide biologists with the necessary flexibility to express their knowledge regardless of whether the terminology has been standardized yet or not. API service
Our job is to clarify what this means…
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1. Untangling WP4 objectivesFacilitate integration and harmonisation of distributed data-sets
i.e. linking up the Scratchpad archipelago
How do we do this?
Sites: 200+
Users: 2340+
Pages: 205k
Circa 2 new sites/wk.
Since Mar. ‘07
10% access per mnth
40% accessed per mnth
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Options for linking up the Scratchpads
• Search
Planned via Apache Lucene in WP2 (issues for distributed servers)
• A registry listing all the Scratchpads
Planned in WP2 (several options for doing this)
• Integrating data
Planned in WP4 via the CDM
A key objective of this meeting is to detail options for the registry & the CDM
1. Untangling WP4 objectivesFacilitate integration and harmonisation of distributed data-sets
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Associated deliverables:
D4.1) Scratchpad common access point: Develop an initial set of API services to link the Scratchpad communities to the resources of the CDM, to facilitate data exchange. [month 12] - NB Too early
D4.3) Ongoing services enhancements:Develop robust services, based on usage statistics and user feedback, that enhance the prototype tools delivered under D4.1 & D4.2 [month 36]
1. Untangling WP4 objectivesFacilitate integration and harmonisation of distributed data-sets
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Background to WP4Overarching objectives & vision
1. Facilitate integration and harmonisation of distributed data-sets
2. Provide management and dissemination facilities for the necessary ontologies
3. Provide biologists with the necessary flexibility to express their knowledge regardless of whether the terminology has been standardized yet or not. API service
Our job is to clarify what this means…
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2. Untangling WP4 objectivesProvide mang. & dissemination facilities for the necessary ontologies
i.e. providing a more standardised approach to vocabularies
Controlledvocabulariesin a Scratchpad
How do we get people to share these lists?
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Initial approach to sharing vocabularies in WP4
• Explore needs
Ongoing via GBIF
• Develop prototypes
Being planned by GBIF (DR) now
• Embed vocabularies into Scratchpads
Need to work out the details
2. Untangling WP4 objectivesProvide mang. & dissemination facilities for the necessary ontologies
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Associated deliverables:
D4.2) Ontology tools:Develop the GBIF ontology tool and produce an equivalent tool based on a semantic wiki. Deliver a single user interface for ontology creation and editing based on user-acceptance of the alternative technologies. [month 24]
D4.3) Ongoing services enhancements:Develop robust services, based on usage statistics and user feedback, that enhance the prototype tools delivered under D4.1 & D4.2 [month 36]
2. Untangling WP4 objectivesProvide mang. & dissemination facilities for the necessary ontologies
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Background to WP4Overarching objectives & vision
1. Facilitate integration and harmonisation of distributed data-sets
2. Provide management and dissemination facilities for the necessary ontologies
3. Provide biologists with the necessary flexibility to express their knowledge regardless of whether the terminology has been standardized yet or not. API service
Our job is to clarify what this means…
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3. Untangling WP4 objectivesFlexible service to express knowledge regardless of whether terminology has been standardized
i.e. wiki-based system for managing ontologies
Need to clarify?
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Controlled anatomical vocabularies
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Demonstrate and deploy the advantages of Semantic Mediawiki as a base layer for vocabulary management
Controlled per site Controlled across sitesDemonstrators via
1. Wiki, 2. Semantic wikii
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3. Untangling WP4 objectivesFlexible service to express knowledge regardless of whether terminology has been standardized
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Associated deliverables:
D4.2) Ontology tools:Develop the GBIF ontology tool and produce an equivalent tool based on a semantic wiki. Deliver a single user interface for ontology creation and editing based on user-acceptance of the alternative technologies. [month 24]
D4.3) Ongoing services enhancements:Develop robust services, based on usage statistics and user feedback, that enhance the prototype tools delivered under D4.1 & D4.2 [month 36]
3. Untangling WP4 objectivesFlexible service to express knowledge regardless of whether terminology has been standardized
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