In our proposal, we said we would:
- Convert existing formalisms (e.g., the ITIS thesaurus; the Darwin Core, several related NBII/USGS invasive species information catalogs and GIS systems) into OWL ontologies
- Create mappings amongst the concepts expressed in these ontologies.
- Construct ontologies for ecological interactions, and geospatial reporting and querying.
- Hold workshops that seek broad community involvement in the ontology-building effort.
Here's the section of our proposal that deals with ontology formulation: OntoFormulation
Here's an outline of activities I think we should pursue:
-Joel
- Before workshop
- Identify ontologies, vocabularies, metadata standards, etc. that we have going in. Here's a list of ExistingFormalisms. Here is a ProjectGlosssary?.
- convert to owl. This page has some notes about learning owl: ["OWL"].
- identify mapping tools to use at workshop. a list of MappingTools? for consideration would be nice
- begin mapping amongst ontologies (maybe).
- At workshop
- brainstorming on framework for community ontology development to be pursued.
- begin (or continue) mapping amongst ontologies.
- identify chunks of the conceptual space still to be ontologized.
- identify who will do (or is already doing) this further ontologizing. (could be efforts outside of SPIRE).
- specify test cases for the ontologies.
- After workshop
- seek community feedback
- through journal and conference papers
- through Wiki publication (?)
- ?
- continue ontology mapping
- development of test cases specified at workshop
