Resources

• Ontology Interest Group Google Folder https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1RGBh4fDZdzpJdwyiUMO8OPWwkcmVYrI0
• VIVO Ontologies on Github:  https://github/vivo-ontolgy
• OBO Slack https://join.slack.com/t/obo-communitygroup/shared_invite/zt-kpkvg7x3-kz7DeGoYKiY~VGWKO0voQg

Attendees

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• Anna Kasprzik 
• Melanie Wacker 
• Brian Lowe 
• Rolf Guescini
• Christian Hauschke 

Agenda & Notes

• Ontology improvement priorities, and release planning
  • Lot of issues in https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Y5j8K_LKa-lAU-Z_p4q1ZnpuuKXEqqTTUb9F-4cFBE/edit#heading=h.zhzo0gde3z5i by Mike Conlon 
  • Relates to the mapping topic 
  • Christian will create a spreadsheet with the issues from the "early thoughts" document
  • Melanie will add issues from the perspective of terminology mapping
  • Then these will be prioritized and shared
• CERIF2VIVO
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19vmYxsyawNi3W0JkToCc7CDUvjTSluoULPBsAgb-nEU/edit#gid=0 → currently Brian is reviewing, will be finished on25 Apr 2023
  • Melanie will propose the next steps in the next Ontology IG meeting (RLM, RDF Mapping Language)
  • Goals
    • Machine-readable mappings
    • ultimate goal to do live-mappings of data, could lead to problems when there are in-exact matches
    • Approach should be reused for other mappings like KDSF, skos turned out to work well for matching
• Projects in the VIVO / Hercules Ontology 
  • Hercules could be closer to CERIF, works smoother with CERIF
  • Rolf listened to Eurocris presentation on Hercules. Hercules puts projects more in the center, allows a richer description of projects.
  • Representation of projects as an additional focus of representation of research
  • Idea would be to allow different angles to look at research information (projects, institutions, persons, concepts etc.) - one of the main reasons to work with knowledge graphs / ontologies → this idea should be put into the VIVO marketing
  • It should be possible to pull some improvements from Hercules back to the VIVO ontolology, but there should be a closer look if properties etc. are used in the way it is usually done in a VIVO context
  • Rolf will set up a scaffolding for a way forward until the next IG meeting
    • What areas need work?
      
    • What needs to be evaluated?
    • What do we need to find out to start the process?
    • Rolf will talk to Salm & Georgy, too