[esip-semantictech] Next ESIP Semantic Technologies Budget

[Pouchard, Line C]

Hi Tom and everyone:

Thank you so much for the budget and the explanations.  This helps a lot.  Any reason as to why 4 was not funded?

At the last teleconference, the suggestion was to put an ontology repository into the budget to at least start a discussion about the possibility of support by ESIP S&T.

It would be useful to develop a plan for deploying and supporting such a repository for ESIP.  This plan needs to align with the S&T roadmap and vision, and help the ESIP executive board to make a decision about supporting a repository.  It would include infrastructure, such as the AWS resources in the current budget.  It could include provision for maintenance and upgrades, support to ontology population and versioning, and customization to earth science ontologies.  Evaluation may also be part of this plan as it is already underway.

To provide some background, the initial deployment of the Semantic Portal was supported by the Products and Services Testbed for $7000 in Fall 2012 split between 2 institutions.  Development of mappings between ontologies were later supported in Fall 2014 for the same.  Much volunteer work went into maintaining the Portal.  The Semantic Portal’s currently completed move to the NSF/ESIP ECITE cloud instance, requested by the Committee in June, was supported by volunteer work.   No other support was provided for the Semantic Portal as S&T was not a committee.

Let me know if there is interest in the idea of developing such a plan for the ESIP STC.  And of course, is this eligible?

Thanks,

Line

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On 8/30/16, 1:33 PM, "esip-semanticweb on behalf of Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M) via esip-semanticweb" <esip-semanticweb-bounces at lists.esipfed.org on behalf of esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

    Hi Tom,
    At the last meeting, someone asked where last years budget wasŠ no one
    seemed to know.
    Do you know where it is so some of us new comers can get a peek into
    format and content?
    Off the top of my head, some things which were mentioned were
     * there may be nothing wrong with resubmitting/repurposing last years
    budget req.
     * the Semantic Ontology Implementation/COR/whatever needs to be factored
    into the budget
     * Bhaskar spoke very encouragingly about putting some kind of
    paper/article/journal entry together representing the direction of
    semantics within the Earth Sciences. Maybe we could request some budget
    resources to drive this work on?
    Thanks 
    Thanks 
    
    
    On 8/25/16, 9:00 AM, "esip-semanticweb on behalf
    oesip-semanticweb-request at lists.esipfed.orgf"
    <esip-semanticweb-bounces at lists.esipfed.org on behalf of
    esip-semanticweb-request at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
    
    >
    >Message: 1
    >Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:06:03 +0000
    >From: "Narock, Thomas" <tnarock at ndm.edu>
    >To: ESIP Semantic Web Cluster <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org>
    >Subject: [esip-semantictech] Next ESIP Semantic Technologies Budget
    >Message-ID: <CEEAF64B-30B7-49B4-82FE-5E071AF51CC3 at ndm.edu>
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    >
    >All,
    >
    >ESIP leadership has requested that all committees submit budget requests
    >for the next fiscal year by September 1. Over the next week I?d like to
    >gather your input on items you feel are essential to the budget. A few
    >guidelines to keep in mind. Our total budget request should be in the 10k
    >range.  Although, please note we are not guaranteed to receive that
    >amount. It?s more of an upper limit on committee requests. Also, each
    >line item in the budget must have proper justification and align with a
    >specific deliverable. For example, asking for discretionary travel funds
    >will not be approved. However, asking for funds for 1 person to represent
    >us at a specific meeting because it directly impacts the committee has a
    >better chance of being approved.
    >
    >And student fellows must go through the broader ESIP fellow program. I
    >don?t believe we can fund students directly through our budget. If you
    >have a promising student interested in semantics, please encourage them
    >to apply to the fellows program, which is now open.
    >
    >So, please start thinking about our current trajectory and where you?d
    >like to see funds devoted over the next year. Feel free to discuss here
    >on the mailing list or contact myself and Beth directly. The only item we
    >had in the budget last year was funding to support the ontology portal
    >instances. We?re looking to expand this year and are in need of your
    >feedback.
    
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