Published 2024-04-19

5 April 2024 TOB Meeting Agenda & Notes

By tschneider
2 min

0) Announcements

1) IOF Calendar

  • Todd requested that the working group chairs try to keep the IOF calendar entries up to date (e.g., cancellations)

    • Michelle said that she will help with the calendar updating

  • Milos asked about how the time zones are used or set (in the calendar)

  • It was explained that the time zone (for calendar display purposes) can be set in the ‘Account Preferences’, see https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/account-preferences (must be logged in).

2) Architecture TG - Formal Review of Normative Documents – Voting

  • Will Sobel was not present to provide an update on the voting

3) Additions to the IOF:Core ontology – Suggestions

  • Farhad suggested adding industry classifications (e.g., UN classifications, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/classifications/Econ/Download/In%20Text/Isic31_English.pdf)

    • Elisa explained how OMG uses these ‘classifiers’

  • Todd asked what the used cases or requirements for using ‘classifiers’

  • Elisa suggested using parts of FIBO for representing businesses and ownership

  • The requirement for the IOF seems to be to provide the constructs so that users can ‘import’ and make use of which ever classification scheme they need

    • These constructs should be in the core

  • Farhad will create a use case (for the use of ‘classifiers’)

  • Ana suggested ‘Facility’ and ‘Ownership’, which are currently in the PSS ontology

    • Perhaps the IOF can (re)use the FIBO work on ‘ownership’ (which can be very complicated)

  • Milos will create an Epic to keep track of these suggestions

4) Ontology Development Process

  • Will Sobel was not present to lead the discussion, but there a short discussion

  • Todd brought the issue of providing and annotating the source of natural language definitions and how it may be accomplished (e.g., comparing multiple sources against requirements and using a ‘nested’ annotation for the source)

    • Jim Logan asked about the nested annotation problem w.r.t. the serialized

    • Elisa explained that the ‘problem’ is not with the serializer but it is Protege’s default XML namespace declaration the OWL language IRI and this confuses the Serializer

      • Solution – Explicitly declare the XML namespace prefix for your ontology using the IRI of the ontology

5) Common Core Ontologies – Review?

  • Elisa suggested having a Confluence page to collect comments (from IOF members)

  • Need to add URL for the ontologies to be reviewed

  • Todd will create the Confluence pages

Participants

@tschneider @Ana Correia @Dimitris Kiritsis @Dusan Sormaz @Elisa Kendall @Evan Wallace @Farhad Ameri (Unlicensed) @Jim Logan @Jim Wilson @Michelle Banks @Milos Drobnjakovic (Unlicensed) @Serm Kulvatunyou

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