DRAFT Agenda
eXtended Metadata Registry (XMDR) Project Participant meeting
and Editing Sessions for ISO/IEC Standards
UC Berkeley Faculty Club
August 20 - 24, 2007
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Special editing session - ISO/IEC 11179. This may include a presentation of the current proposals for 11179 Part 3 (Edition 3) to NCI participants when they arrive. This will help to validate whether or not the proposals are what is needed by NCI.
10:45 am Morning Break
11:00 am Special editing session continued
11:30 am Lunch, no host lunch at Faculty Club
12:30 pm Special editing session continued
1:45 pm Afternoon Break
2:00 pm Special editing session continued
5:00 pm Adjourn for the day
August 21, 2007, Tuesday - Presentations about technology and related work (Heyns Room)
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Introduction of participants and opening remarks
9:15 am Presentation by Deborah McGuinness about IKRIS Knowledge Language (IKL) (invited)
10:15 am Morning Break
10:30 am Deborah McGuinness, continued
11:30 am Lunch, no host lunch from Faculty Club, bring back to meeting room, general discussion
12:30 pm Presentation by Franz Inc., -- Recently released version 2.0 of AllegroGraph Steve Sears and Jans Aasman
2:00 pm Afternoon Break
2:30 pm AllegroGraph continued
3:00 pm Metaweb semantic data storage infrastructure and Freebase - presentation and demo - Robert Cook and Jamie Taylor
5:00 pm Adjourn
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Introduction of participants and opening remarks
9:15 am XMDR prototype: status, demonstration, plans for future work, discussion of NCI use requirements
10:30 am Morning Break
10:45 am XMDR prototype discussion continued
11:45 am Lunch - no host lunch from Faculty Club, bring back to meeting room, general discussion
12:45 pm Discussion of content loading and mapping: OMEGA, OpenCyc (water portion), other. Status, demonstration, discussion. Mapping SIC - NAICS. Content acquisition, plans for loading content, and plans for acquiring additional content. Discussion of loading content from multiple sources where the content has different identifiers. Discussion of loading caDSR metadata
2:15 pm Afternoon Break
2:45 pm Discussion of XMDR for NCI, consideration of use cases
5:00 pm Adjourn
August 23, Thursday -- XMDR Project (Seaborg Room)
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Discussion of NCI semantics management (concept systems and data) as it relates to metadata registries.
10:30 am Morning Break
11:00 am Presentation from Study Period on MDR for Semantic Web proposed by Korea - Dongwon Jeong, Dept. of Informatics & Statistics, Kunsan National University, Korea
11:45am Lunch, no host lunch from Faculty Club, bring back to meeting room, general discussion
12:45 pm SPIRE collaboration
1:15 pm Discussion of potential demonstrations for Ecoinformatics Test Bed - Bill Sonntag
2:30 pm Afternoon Break
2:45 pm Mapping – Fred Gey
3:15 pm Discussion of interactions with other groups--W3C, Ecoterm, Ecoinformatics, Open Forum 2008. Plans for meetings and conferences.
3:45 pm Next steps and scheduling, review meeting conclusions agreements/assignments
5:00 pm Adjourn
August 24, 2007, Friday – Special session (Seaborg Room)
If desired, this will follow-on with NCI or other participant agency requirements for XMDR. When that discussion is complete, the rest of the time will be used on editing ISO/IEC 11179-3 (E3) (xx Room)
8:30 am Coffee, tea, light food (fruit, carbs)
9:00 am Discussion of potential user requirements
10:30 am Morning Break
10:45 am Special session continued
11:45 am Lunch, no host lunch at Faculty Club
12:45 pm Special session continued
2:45 pm Afternoon Break
3:00 pm Special session continued
5:00 pm Adjourn for the day
*Note: The standards sessions are informal editing and liaison sessions among editors and standards developers with the intention to prepare proposals and to align specifications among several standards. All decisions made here must later be reviewed and accepted by formal actions within the standards development organizations.