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- Brown (Steve) – no recent changes to the ontology except adding some document classes that individual faculty members wanted to see – e.g., Engineering faculty wanted to see workshop papers to be a sibling of conference paper.
- Looking ahead to the presentation at the Conference and ongoing humanities work is trying to distill main points:
- the notion of a new class for some kind of canonical work that is distinct from a standard document (drawing on the idea of a canonical course as it relates to individual semester courses as events)
- for example, to handle works that have gone through multiple editions or been updated over time
- should the most recent edition be the reference point for the canonical work
- a central concern, and more immediate because some faculty members asked a very good question about presentations that get given repeatedly over time, and where a common link is desired as a way to tie all those presentations together
- can we take advantage of the provenance ontology (Prov-o by the W3C)? Steve has been looking at that and is interested in it for other
- what about physical works? are they still information resources?
- entities and artifacts created by agents, with predecessor-successor
- both the VIVO and the prov-o ontology skirt the issue of
- as long as a resource has some sort of representation
- but how do we represent the abstract concept – implicitly through the stand-in as a web page is the stand-in for the person
- the canonical course is the only place where we've addressed the concept of a canonical thing
- would be on firmer ground if we come up with something that makes sense with the Basic Formal Ontology
- the notion of a new class for some kind of canonical work that is distinct from a standard document (drawing on the idea of a canonical course as it relates to individual semester courses as events)
- Looking ahead to the presentation at the Conference and ongoing humanities work is trying to distill main points:
- Florida
- Johns Hopkins (Jing) – not many changes in ontology either; looking at other sources, and suddenly quite a few ontologies floating around
- W3C organization ontology is in a candidate recommendation now
- also the Semantic Web Conference Ontology – conferences and presentations, but dates back to 2009
- has been looking at Web Protege site – a sandbox set up by Stanford that can sign up for an upload to
- with respect to the Prov-o ontology – has some notion of abstract concepts, and usage as well as derivative works
- has a question about processes
- Scripps
- Virginia Tech (Gail) – first meeting of the VIVO pilot team yesterday – 7 people from systems, data management, and data informatics
- will be piloting with people from the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, plus some other possible additional faculty
- about 125 faculty
- 1.5 year time frame leading to a report
- about to hire to hire a systems analyst/programmer for the VIVO project
- Julie Speer and Tyler Walters will be at the Conference
- Weill Cornell
- others
Formalizing
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an ISF/VIVO
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Ontology Working Group
Representatives of each of the organizations sponsoring VIVO (see http://vivoweb.org/sponsorship) will be meeting on Wednesday afternoon, August 14, at the VIVO Conference for the first official VIVO Sponsors Meeting. One item on the agenda is to formalize a set of working groups, with the current and potential activities of this group and listserv providing one example.
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