Relation Ontology 2018
Date: October 24-25, 2018
Venue: SpringHill Suites Denver at Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Background
The first Relation Ontology meeting, organized by Mike Bada, Chris Mungall and Barry Smith, was held in Denver in 2008. Since then the Relation Ontology has languished. Different ontology developers and users employ locally curated relations that are not harmonized across ontologies. The result is inconsistencies and failure of comparability, for example, in the logical definitions of terms. There are differences of opinion about whether relations (or some relations, especially part-hood) should be temporally scoped. There are other issues that arise in various communities of use (e.g. PRO, Monarch, text miners).
Through a series of preparatory phone calls and then the two day meeting in October, we propose to make progress on these issues. Your participation, including in defining the goals and tasks of the group, would be welcome.
This ten-year anniversary meeting is designed to draw on the lessons learned in the intervening years in order to create a Relation Ontology with a firm logical foundation that will enjoy widespread acceptance. The meeting, organized by Larry Hunter and Barry Smith, is part of the series of meetings organized by the Protein Ontology Consortium. Groundwork for the meeting will be laid in a series of pre-meetings, both online and in the form of teleconferences. Those wishing to participate in these pre-meetings and/or in the face-to-face meeting in Denver should contact Barry Smith.
Goals
The goals of this meeting are:
- 1. To review the current treatment of relations in the OBO Foundry and to establish a strategy to establish the Relation Ontology on a firmer footing, with a core, consisting of the relations used in a wide range of ontologies, and a well-curated collection of modules extending the core wherever possible using the technology of short-cut relations.
- 2. To explore use cases for the Relation Ontology, with special attention to relations within the PRO and between PRO and other ontologies.
Schedule: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Introductory Session
- 9:00 TBD
- 10:45 Break
- 11:00 TBD
- 12:30 Lunch
TBD
Chair:
- 13:30 TBD
- 15:00 Break
- 15:15 TBD
- 18:00 Working dinner
Schedule: Thursday, October 25, 2018
TBD
Chair:
- 9:00 TBD
- 10:30 Break
- 10:45 TBD
- 12:15 Lunch
13:00 TBD
- 16:00 Close
Participants
- Cecilia Arighi (Delaware / PRO)
- Judith Blake (JAX)
- Chuming Chen (Delaware)?
- Julie Cowart (Delaware)?
- Peter d'Eustachio (NYU)?
- Alexander Diehl (Buffalo)
- Harold Drabkin (JAX)?
- David Hill (JAX)?
- William Hogan (Gainesville)
- Robert Hoehndorf (KAUST)
- Larry Hunter (Denver)
- Chris Mungall (LBNL)
- Darren Natale (Georgetown)
- Li Ni (JAX)?
- Karen Ross (Delaware)?
- Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)
- Cynthia Smith (JAX)
- Barry Smith (Buffalo)
- Kimberley VanAuken (CalTech)?
- Laurens Wilming (JAX)?
- Cathy Wu (Delaware / PRO)
Please contact Barry Smith for further information.
