[esip-semantictech] Debreif/Outcomes from RDA Meeting

[Jane Wyngaard]

+3  - I also hit alot of sessions on semantics!

FWIW, notes on the unconference session on ontologies are here (I missed
this session alas): Shared data vocabularies & governance across
institutions/ governments/ regions
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l8j7oNycPqyiycrIcRB1XmBEqd9AU2nKouijrm9ZaDg/edit>
(Scroll
to bottom to see napkin notes transcribed:)

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Jane Wyngaard, PhD

Embedded Systems Engineer & Data Technologist
Center for Research Computing
University of Notre Dame


On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 4:31 PM Ruth Duerr via esip-semanticweb <
esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Hi Lewis,
>
> I have to agree with John’s summary.  There was a huge amount of interest
> in semantics and semantic technologies at this plenary.  It is even turning
> up in RDA products (e.g., the agrisemantics work).
>
> In the unconference, there was considerable discussion with the issues of
> finding and accessing ontologies, trying to figure out which ones to use,
> etc. It all sounded very similar to the conversations ESIP and EarthCube
> have been having over the past few years.
>
> Ruth
>
> On Apr 6, 2019, at 3:09 PM, John Graybeal via esip-semanticweb <
> esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
>
> I don’t know if it was just me, but I thought there was an unusual level
> of semantic activity and interest this RDA. Presenting for a colleague in
> schema.org BoF, having a BioPortal poster, and helping run
> the Harmonizing FAIR Descriptions of Observational Data BoF may have biased
> my perspective considerably.
>
> Even the “How do we improve RDA outputs?” session was looking to define
> what metadata should be collected for RDA outputs. (And what kind of
> metadata *isn’t* semantic, really? ;->)  Topic came up again at the
> Unsession, but I couldn’t stick around for much of that.
>
> If you go to any of the pages for sessions you were interested in
> (viewable at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-13th-plenary-programme), you
> will almost always find a link at the top for a common set of meeting
> notes, which often points to slides.
>
> Of all the sessions, the most semantically important may be the BoF
> organized by Barbara Magagna, who wants to create a Working Group to
> improve labeling conventions for Observational Data. This is a richly
> complicated topic, just look at everything referenced in the notes page (
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PVSUDcglbZmFrRYpcFUmgxSWHvilQdLBALzRI1Ilqxc/edit).
> An interesting summary of the ‘survey’ filled out by the speakers is at
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f5S7TFaH3M4_caZAoIDpK1Tvqt8DZkUYheCO_1u8k24/edit
> .
>
> The other topic I found intriguing was the Schema.org BoF
> <https://www.rd-alliance.org/bof-using-schemaorg-and-enriched-metadata-enableboost-fairness-research-resources-rda-13th-plenary>, the
> presentations were good but the discussion was particularly intriguing. It
> included topics like “How should RDA’s technology-neutrality policy be
> taken into account in considering schema.org?” We flirted with discussing
> the risks and benefits of using a moderately bespoke technology, but
> deferred that topic to another day. On the key question of whether or not
> the group should become a Working Group, I don’t know that the group
> clearly determined the answer, though there continued to be strong interest
> in the approach and a number of participants suggested RDA could contribute
> far more effectively to schema.org if it worked as a group.
>
> John
>
> On Apr 5, 2019, at 11:57, Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M) via esip-semanticweb <
> esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
>
> Good Afternoon Folks,
> I took badly ill this week with the flu and only really coming back online
> today.
> How did things go at RDA? Would anyone like to share experiences or does
> anyone know of notes which were taken?
> Thanks,
> Lewis
>
>
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