OpenOntologyRepository (OOR) - Metadata

This page is for the documentation relating to the metadata requirements of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through the OOR initiative.

What's New

2012_03_06 - OOR Metadata Workshop-VI - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_06
2012_01_17 - OOR Metadata Workshop-V - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_17
2011_10_18 - OOR Metadata Workshop-IV - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_10_18
2011_05_27 - OOR Metadata Workshop-III - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_27
2011_05_13 - OOR Metadata Workshop-II - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_05_13
2011_03_18 - OOR Metadata Workshop-I - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_03_18

Tasks at Hand

... this and the following sections need to be updated!

From the Fri 2011.03.18 workshop: (ref.)
- 1. (near term) to review Ken's use cases to validate the adequacy of OMV.
  - Action Item 1: Evaluate the adequacy of OMV with respect to the OOR

use cases at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/ontologies/

- 2. (urgent) drive the OOR sandbox to production-box transition.
  - Action Item 2: Focus on issues related to "production" OOR, particularly the gatekeeper functionality.
- 3. (medium term) we need research, discuss, and sought expert advice on state-of-art on versioning, identifier, etc.
  - we might want to schedule a panel session to delve into this.
  - we can schedule another "OOR Metadata Workshop" in about a month or so as a follow-up.

Proposed

18 March 2011 - OOR will use the OMV ontology as the core metadata ontology.

18 March 2011 - OMV will be extended to import additional extensions needed to support OOR (e.g., ontology configurations, version history)

22 March 2011 - John Graybeal proposes evaluating using MMI's Ontology Metadata for Community Ontologies as an extension

Discussion of Proposal

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John Graybeal 2011.03.22: MMI spent considerable time determining what metadata would be important to have for ontologies that are maintained on behalf of communities that develop information resources. We found a number of metadata items that were important for ongoing management of ontologies -- where they came from, how they are maintained, frequency of update, licensing and permission, and even more refined details -- in addition to the OMV metadata specified at that time. We didn't implement everything we envisioned, but do have a fair number in our system. The Ontology Metadata page provides a summary of our conclusions.

Adopted

... (coming!)

Discussion