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[SEM-GRD] GGF7 minutes online
Just to let you know that the minutes (and some further presentations)
are now online on http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/
Here is the list of presentations now available:
Agenda, charter, IP notices (David De Roure)
Introduction and news (Carole Goble)
W3C Tracking - OWL (David De Roure)
The Management of Relationships (Reagan Moore)
Using DAML+OIL for discovering services in a BioGrid (Carole Goble)
Semantic support for Grid-Enabled Design Search in Engineering (Simon Cox)
The Semantic Grid: An Infrastructure Perspective (Carl Kesselman)
Geospatial Ontologies for Workflow (Geoffrey Fox)
I3C Registry Group (Michael Nieme)
Unicore meets Globus scheduling using ontologies (John Brooke)
The text version of the minutes is appended for info - thanks to Bruce for
producing these so promptly.
-- Dave
Minutes of Semantic Grid Research Group from GGF 7
The Semantic Grid Research Group met twice during the GGF 7 meeting.
Session 1 was on Wednesday, Mar. 5, from noon to 1:30 pm. Session 2
was on Thursday, Mar. 6, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. Most of these
Sessions were devoted to talks by a number of individuals with
experience, interests, or concerns regarding the Semantic Grid. These
talks are briefly summarized later in these minutes. PowerPoint
presentations for most of these talks are available at the Semantic
Grid Research Group's community portal at http://www.semanticgrid.org.
Interested individuals are invited to join the mailing list at
sem-grd@gridforum.org.
There were two items of new business.
First, the Semantic Grid Research Group noted the desire to create a
Scheduling Ontology WG to be co-chaired by Wolfgang Ziegler and
Phillipp Wieder with close relations to the Semantic Grid RG. This new
WG is expecting approval following GGF7 and should have its next
meeting at GGF9, where it would hope to have the first draft of a
structure of a scheduling ontology. The new WG would appreciate help
in finding if such ontologies already exist, or if existing ontologies
or ontology tools could help create a Grid scheduling ontology.
Second, there is intent to create a "Semantic Grid Primer". David De
Roure, chair of the Semantic Grid RG, is expecting to start organizing
work on this Primer in the coming months, and will be soliciting
volunteers. The Primer is expected to be one of the first documents
produced by the Semantic Grid RG.
As a start to the Semantic Grid Research Group's discussions, there
was an Introduction and Update of work on items of interest to the RG,
including a new journal and various W3C activities on the Semantic
Web. After noting the IP policy clearly at the start of the first
session, Dave reviewed the Charter of the RG, which is particularly
directed toward
* Realizing the added value of Semantic Web technologies, and
* Providing a forum to track ontology development.
The RG has six basic tasks:
1. Track Semantic Web activities and inform the Grid community of
their benefits
2. Provide a forum to discuss and share best practice
3. Create links with other RG and WG
4. Operate a Semantic Grid community web portal
5. Encourage engagement between the Grid and the Semantic Web
6. Foster working groups
Carole then noted that Elsevier has created a Journal of Web
Semantics, which is soliciting papers on Semantic Grid and
Peer-to-Peer Technologies. She also noted that the 1st Workshop in
Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing will be held at the 12th WWW
Conference in Budapest in May. This workshop has been organized in
cooperation with the Research Group. Deadline for submissions to this
workshop is 1 April. WWW2003 will also have a track on e-Services and
the Semantic Web. Finally, there will be an International Semantic Web
Conference, ISWC2003, in mid-October, 2003, with a mid-April deadline
for submissions.
The first session, chaired by Dave, then included the following
presentations:
David De Roure - Update on W3C Activities,
notably OWL
Reagan Moore - Relationships and The Grid (a Digital Library
Perspective),
with a theme that Grids need to go beyond management of semantic
relationships to management of semantic/logical, structural/spatial,
and temporal/procedural relationships, and that perhaps we might aim
at producing an ontological Grid, not just a semantic Grid
Carole Goble - Describing and Finding Services using DAML + OIL
Ontologies,
in which Carole described her work on the myGrid project
(http://www.mygrid.org.uk), a 2nd generation open service-based Grid
project that serves as a testbed for OGSI, OGSA, and OGSA-DAI. The
talk focused on the registration and semantic discovery of services
using the DAML+OIL web ontology language.
The second session, led by Carole, included the following
presentations after a clear presentation of the IP Policy notice:
Simon Cox - Semantic Support for Grid-Enabled Design Search in
Engineering,
which presented an interesting example of how ontology-based reasoning
could provide useful and intelligent guidance for making effective use
of Grid Enabled Optimization and Design Search for Engineering
(GEODISE). In an overly simplistic summary, the ontology provides a
way of creating a user manual that adapts to the context of the user
and assists in ensuring that the user doesn't forget key steps in work
with this tool.
Carl Kesselman - The Semantic Grid: An Infrastructure Perspective,
in which he wanted to increase the likelihood that Ontologies would be
incorporated into the Grid infrastructure, not just be added to
applications.
Michael Niemi - I3C Registry Group
(I3C is a consortium in life sciences that promotes and guides
development of Interoperable software frameworks and solutions in life
sciences), with a current mission of discovering and binding them to
services in their registry.
Geoffrey Fox - Geospatial Ontologies for Workflow, as well as future
activities Crisis Grid/ServoGrid,
noting the Open GIS Web Services (http://www.opengis.org), as well as
the difficulties of coordinating organizational management of data
needed to respond to emergencies in multi-jurisdictional situations.
John Brooke - Unicore meets Globus Scheduling Using Ontologies,
in which John discussed experience in moving from an "Ancestral
Broker" to an Interoperable one.
Bruce R. Barkstrom
Secretary, Semantic Grid Research Group
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