Workshops

Underlay workshop ℵ: August 17, 2018

When: Friday, August 17. 1000-1600 EST
Where: MIT Media Lab, E15-466
Who: 15 people in Cambridge + remote links
What: Discussion, compiled essays from attendees (what + why they built), sheet of examples.

Come discuss the Underlay and the current state of public knowledge graphs and their provenance.

We will have 4 brief topical sessions, with followups in the afternoon. Remote participation welcome - let us know if you are interested in joining for part of the day.

Schedule

09:00 <Breakfast + coffee>
10:00 Intros + framework: Underlays and overlays. Refining our understanding of the world.
10:30 Knowledge stores : models and uses
11:15 Provenance : traversing provenance trees; contexts and approaches
11:45 <Lunch + sun>
12:45 Interoperability: interlayers, linking + updating, schemas. Avoiding new standards.
13:30 Designing for overlays : examples, interfaces
14:00 Open discussions, pursuance
16:00 <River + walk>

Side topics

• Discovery : identifiers + hashes
• Use cases : specific overlays eager for decent + provenanced details
• Current + past approaches: what remains, what happened to each
• Connecting with Joint Roadmaps (open science, collective knowledge)
• Layering: Reasons to granularize sources and data, and separate these from presentation layers
• Provenance types + uses: where, who, how, when; for reputation, availability + multiplicity, reproducibility + reproducedness; source links vs prov graphs

Attendees

Catherine Ahearn, KFG Danny Hillis, KFG
Gabe Stein, KFG
Joel Gustafson, KFG + PL
SJ Klein, KFG
Travis Rich, KFG
Sarah Schwettmann, Neuro

Matt Zumwalt, Protocol Labs
Jessica Polka, ASAP Bio
Chris Taggart, Open Corporates
Alan Ransil, Cool Composites + PL
Blake Elias
Conor White-Sullivan, Roam
James Weis, Nest.Bio (morning)
Mark Weber, DCI + IBM (lunch)

Remote participation
Victoria Stodden
Kurt Bollacker, Long Now
Jodi Schneider, Linked data + meta-science
Dan Whaley Bertram Ludaescher, Whole Tale