plenary-2021-11-04.md

Plenary November, 2021-11-03

Agenda

1. Attendees and Apologies
   • Please note: Attendees to be generated from Teams – please check the minutes for any corrections
2. Previous minutes
   • these minutes are from the 2021 October Plenary
   • see https://github.com/AGLDWG/meeting-minutes/blob/master/plenary-2021-10-07.md
3. Welcoming and introduction to new members
4. Follow-up on previous meeting's Action Items
5. Guidelines 2.2 - changes to AGLDWG Roles & IRI statuses
6. GeoSPARQL 1.1: An Almost Decadal Update to the Most Important Geospatial LOD Standard
7. Biodiversity Data Repository - a major Australian Government Linked Data project
8. Recap from academic conferences in the field CIKM2021/ISWC2021
9. General business
10. Next meeting details
11. Monthly Plenary closes

Minutes

Chair: Armin Haller Notes: Nicholas Car

1. Attendees and Apologies

Apologies

None

3. Welcoming and introduction to new members

• Lesley Kneebone - Uni Melb, Biosecurity research
• Rick Rafter - DES Qld. Works with Dan Brough

2. Previous minutes

• these minutes are from the 2021 October Plenary
• see https://github.com/AGLDWG/meeting-minutes/blob/master/plenary-2021-10-07.md

APPROVED - no changes proposed by attendees.

Chair: feel free to propse menutes changes in GitHub

4. Follow-up on previous meeting's Action Items

None

5. Guidelines 2.2 - changes to AGLDWG Roles & IRI statuses

ACTION: Armin to update TOR and send to ANU LEgal for review ACTION: Nick to send link Guidlines 2.2 to Mailing List for review for next Month's meeting approval

Guidline documents:

• Current: https://github.com/AGLDWG/guidelines/blob/master/PID-IRI-Guidelines-v2.1.md
• Proposed: https://github.com/AGLDWG/guidelines/blob/master/PID-IRI-Guidelines-v2.2.md

6. GeoSPARQL 1.1: An Almost Decadal Update to the Most Important Geospatial LOD Standard

The 1.0 and 1.1 GeoSPARQL documents are here:

• https://opengeospatial.github.io/ogc-geosparql/

7. Biodiversity Data Repository - a major Australian Government Linked Data project

Nicholas Car, Kheeran Dharmawardena & Dan Brough all described parts of the BDR and related projects.

The validator API for BDR-relevant data is online at http://ndesgateway.surroundaustralia.com/.

The "NDES" data standard use by the BRD and the validator API is being fleshed out at: https://github.com/surroundaustralia/ndes.

8. Recap from academic conferences in the field CIKM2021/ISWC2021

Armin reported on these conferences which he's been attending on and off.

Latest buzz: all about Knowledge Graphs and their use in Machine Learning - for ML and also using ML on KGs to improve/understand them!

9. General business

Good News Story from Bernadette:

• Prof Eddie Holme wins PM's award for data sharing, see https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-11-03/prime-ministers-science-prize-eddie-edward-holmes-covid-19-virus/100552752

10. Next meeting details

• 2nd of December, 2021

11. Monthly Plenary closes