[John Graybeal]

Hi everyone,
Tomorrow the RDA Vocabulary and Semantic Services Interest Group will meet from 9:00 to 10:30 AM CET (GMT+1, I believe), in B95 (second floor, between the 2 straight staircases).
We co-chairs and supporters have been scrambling to get ready for the call, as our chair-among-co-chairs, Simon Cox, was unable to travel at the last minute. I am sending this email both as an update and a last reminder.
Below you will find the contents of the Minutes page, which contains helpful links to the gotomeeting, other pages, and a set of seeding questions we hope to discuss. The Minutes page is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/16JUxVxOsYm-JVqN1X9Ra7PeDgI-szp4xghW4…, please help us take notes, or add your own thoughts.
The official RDA11 VSSIG session page is at https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-vocabulary-services-rda-11th-plenary-meeting, and contains additional remote dial-up information.
The seeding questions to be discussed are:
• Are the processes of the IG working overall?
• Do we want to encourage delivery of persistent products (as opposed to a social exchange)? What are minimum requirements for a task group to stay viable?
• Suggestions for improvements (to participation, products, meeting schedule, ..)
• What is appropriate action to take as products are produced?
You may bring up other questions or topics during the discussion period, which we’ll try to make at least 30 minutes.
We look forward to seeing many of you in person or on the call. Thanks!
John
Vocabulary and Semantic Services Session
Collaborative Notes
References
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/708547405
Vocabulary and Semantic Services Session page (with complete dial-in information):
https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-vocabulary-services-rda-11th-plenary-meeting
Group Page:
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/vocabulary-services-interest-group.html
Sign-Up Sheet and Instructions:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gQ5FK7LXmdE5VdXMnDBP8uSJ3Ca-B5Mq…
Overview
The VSSIG is concerned with harmonization and best practices around the development, publication, discovery, and use of controlled vocabularies and ontologies.
Group chair serving as contact person:
Simon Cox
Meeting objectives
Update on progress from the task groups, and adjustment of processes as needed.
Meeting agenda
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Introductions of Chairs and Leads – Yann Le Franc
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Review of existing processes (for all) – John Graybeal
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Summary of IG purpose – Yann Le Franc
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Update on progress from the task groups:
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Vocabulary best practices – John Graybeal and/or Ruth Duerr
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Vocabulary service API – John Graybeal (for Arthur Smith)
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Vocabulary term selection – John Graybeal
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Vocabulary change requests – John Graybeal
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Aggregated search over vocabularies – Yann Le Franc
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Ontology and vocabulary metadata – Barbara Magagna [for Clement Jonquet]
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Conceptualisation of measurement parameters – Michael Diepenbroek & Barbara Magagna
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Discussions, Plans and Next steps (see minutes for seed questions)
Discussion seed questions
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Are the processes of the IG working overall?
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Do we want to encourage delivery of persistent products (as opposed to a social exchange)? What are minimum requirements for a task group to stay viable?
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Suggestions for improvements (to participation, products, meeting schedule, ..)
4.
What is appropriate action to take as products are produced?
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John Graybeal
Technical Program Manager
Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval /+/ NCBO BioPortal
Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
650-736-1632

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