[esip-semantictech] schema.org, roadmap, symposium matters

[Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M)]

Hi Beth,
You're absolutely right, there is a lot going on!
Please see inline for some of my contributions... more to come in due course.

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    Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:01:53 +0000
    From: Beth Huffer <beth at lingualogica.net>
    To: ESIP-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org>
    Subject: [esip-semantictech] schema.org, roadmap, symposium matters
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    Hello Sem Techies,
    
    We are a busy committee and I need your help to keep things moving. Here?s what we?ve got going:
    
    
      1.  Our AGU abstract was accepted as an eLightening session. An iPoster will need to be created and I hope to get inputs from everyone for this. I?ll put together a rough (very rough) draft of a poster and put it on Google Slides for people to comment on/contribute to.

Excellent. I'll contribute once the bones are there. 

      2.  At our last meeting, we talked about possibly submitting a session proposal for the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium 2019. Proposals are due Oct 31. Please take a look at the website at http://us2ts.org/2019/ and email the list if you have ideas for a session that you?d like to submit.

I think this is a good suggestion yes. The CfP is available at http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/cfp.html and I would suggest that anyone interested take a look at it. Their guidelines state that a suitable balance of participants is 3 with each preferably being from a different institution. If we can align on a topic for our session, then I doubt we will struggle to meet these guidelines.

I suggest that we propose one of the following 
 * a panel discussion focused on discussing the Semantic Web Infusion Roadmap and Hype Cycle (https://esipfed.github.io/stc/Semantic_Tech_Roadmap/SemanticTechRoadmap.html). This would cover generalities such as fundamental Semantic Technologies but would be skewed towards the Earth Science's to make it a bit more interesting hopefully, OR
 * Breakout-style discussions on a proposed topic with that topic being use of established vocabularies (schema.org) for improving data discovery across the sciences. This would provide some continuity on the underlying theme of this year's GeoSemantics Symposium we will be hosting in January as well as an AGU Session on a very similar topic. 

      3.  Speaking of symposiums, we need to plan for the 2019 Geosemantics Symposium in January. Please submit your ideas for themes and guest speakers for this symposium to the list.
    
I went ahead and created a staging area for our content and we move forward. 

https://esipfed.github.io/stc/symposium/2019/symposium.html

As a theme, I suggest we stick with "... use of established vocabularies e.g. schema.org, for improving data discovery across the sciences." 
The reason I propose that we stick with a common theme is that it is beginning to gain acceptance. To put it into the terminology used by Peter Fox during his Hype Cycle presentation, schema.org has entered the Plateau of Productivity! My feeling is that if we stick with it, we could make some serious impact.

Lewis