[Esip-semanticharmonization] Recording of ESIP Semantic Harmonization 2 hour group meeting

[Gary Berg-Cross]

Here is the link to today's SH recording:

https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/c7daf8deb4ad6a66757ace1d03dfc8955a53ad966a8732b9c2605ee003a6e322

Gary Berg-Cross Ph.D.
Consultant
Potomac, MD
240-426-0770
For civic society we must improve the quality of our conversations—our
political, academic, and civic conversations.
Like some terms in EnvO “good conversation” is easier to identify than to
define.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:48 AM Kai Blumberg <kblumberg at email.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> Ruth and Chris mungall have also brought up some good discussion points
> about the envo ice hierarchy, you can see the discussion here:
> https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/1034.
>
> Ruth and I would also like to raise this today.
>
> Kai
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 8:39 AM Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> *External Email*
>> Work priorities for the session are again up to the group, although we
>> made significant progress on the Cryo Speadsheet and have an understanding
>> on how to use the   ROBOT Tool for Automating Ontology Workflows
>> <https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-3002-3>
>> Our template is at:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xt3BHNz-pP2ggJq_asPPcuKuGEAKtbT3MU2wFLTnCmQ/edit#gid=0
>>
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>> Gary Berg-Cross Ph.D.
>> Consultant
>> Potomac, MD
>> 240-426-0770
>> "Peter Turchin, who teaches at the University of Connecticut, follows
>> Tainter in positing a single, transhistorical mechanism leading to
>> collapse, though he is far more willing than Tainter to voice specific —
>> and occasionally alarmist — predictions. In Turchin’s case the key is the
>> loss of “social resilience,” a society’s ability to cooperate and act
>> collectively for common goals. By that measure, Turchin judges that the
>> United States was collapsing well before Covid-19 hit. For the last 40
>> years, he argues, the population has been growing poorer and more unhealthy
>> as elites accumulate more and more wealth and institutional legitimacy
>> founders. “The United States is basically eating itself from the inside
>> out,” he says.
>>
>> Inequality and “popular immiseration” have left the country extremely
>> vulnerable to external shocks like the pandemic, and to internal triggers
>> like the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. He does not hesitate
>> to predict that we can expect to experience far more of the kind of unrest
>> we’ve seen this summer, “not just this year but in the years ahead, because
>> the underlying conditions are only getting worse.”
>>
>
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