[Esip-semanticharmonization] recording link from (10/21/20) ESIP Semantic Harmonization 1 hour group meeting

[Gary Berg-Cross]

Here is the link to the recording of today's  1 hour Semantic Harmonization
session.
https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/08e489c424ef96daaf5da0ad21ab73d26c9a57dce9e3e9eede39d9c27b825d07

We spent most of the time planning for the Winter ESIP submission, which we
dragooned Ksi into drafting and what to follow up with.
Here are the notes we took as a group for the session:


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   ESIP Winter Meeting sessions (prop DUE NOV 5)  -what Semantic
   Harmonization means, what we have done and how to do it with a range of
   semantic resources -
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      includes inviting others to our session to try to get a common
      conversation and this type of effort started up in their cluster
and/or as
      a next round of our work.
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      Form describing how to propose a ESIP session:
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         https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TXVHqig7AgfGSblTR-6Qxprc-6ctbAUU4VvYpoJVszM/edit
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         Kai to take lead, Mark (others?) assist
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      Propose TUTORIAL?  (next-step activity a month afterwards?--
      agreement)
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   How/whether to achieve outreach/connection with other ESIP thematic-data
   clusters: Biology, Ag & Climate, Marine, Soil (approved but pending-- few
   weeks to resolve); also the Discovery cluster (KG, profiles)
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      Recording of the talk Ag & Climate hosted yesterday:
      https://youtu.be/IaF9E5bWB9o
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      Soil ontology WG  https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94053340231?pwd=RHg3ajZwSE1
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      Or perhaps focus on CF per Brandon’s suggestion.
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   Ruth moving to data harmonization task at NASA until early next year,
   working with Peter Fox and Mark Parsons-- will involve semantics
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   Papers need to move forward
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   Ongoing efforts:
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      SWEET as “junction for terms”
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      Cryosphere terms in EnvO
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      SWEET/Envo Harmonization
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   How bridge CF, GCMD, DarwinCore etc (i.e. well-established
   “metadata-ish” vocabs) to be more interoperable and semantic
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      Possibly Peckham’s SVO as CF surrogate(?)--
      http://www.geoscienceontology.org/index.html
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      TDWG/DwC: Ramona Walls had started work, but needs greater focus;
      also Anne Thessen as contact (Stan Blum has started attending some of our
      meetings)

Need “guidelines” for creating a good vocabulary (ontology)-- somewhat like
attached paper but more specifically about creating OWL/RDF and what
annotation properties, axioms, etc. to use   (EnvO as exemplar)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750991/

Gary Berg-Cross Ph.D.
Independent Consultant
Potomac, MD
240-426-0770

> "The Narrow Corridor to Liberty
> Our argument in this book is that for liberty to emerge and flourish, both
> state and society must be strong. A strong state is needed to control
> violence, enforce laws, and provide public services that are critical for a
> life in which people are empowered to make and pursue their choices. A
> strong, mobilized society is needed to control and shackle the strong
> state. Doppelgänger solutions and checks and balances don’t solve the
> Gilgamesh problem because, without society’s vigilance, constitutions and
> guarantees are not worth much more than the parchment they are written on.
> Squeezed between the fear and repression wrought by despotic states and
> the violence and lawlessness that emerge in their absence is a narrow
> corridor to liberty. It is in this corridor that the state and society
> balance each other out. This balance is not about a revolutionary moment.
> It’s a constant, day‑in, day- out struggle between the two. This struggle
> brings benefits. In the corridor the state and society do not just compete,
> they also cooperate. This cooperation engenders greater capacity for the
> state to deliver the things that society wants and foments greater societal
> mobilization to monitor this capacity.
> What makes this a corridor, not a door, is that achieving liberty is a
> process; you have to travel a long way in the corridor before violence is
> brought under control, laws are written and enforced, and the state starts
> providing services to its citizens. It is a process because the state and
> its elites must learn to live with the shackles society puts on them and
> different segments of society have to learn to work together despite their
> differences.
> From -THE NARROW CORRIDOR by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
>
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