Report on the 4th Working group Meeting of the eProcurement
Ontology
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Project: |
eProcurement Ontology |
Meeting Date/Time: |
2018-02-23 09:30 – 11:15 |
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Meeting type: |
4th Working
Group Meeting |
Meeting Location: |
Videoconference Webex (848392954@ecwacs.webex.com ) |
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Chairperson: |
Manuela Cruz |
Issue Date: |
2018-02-23 |
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Meeting
Agenda |
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·
Presentation of the Participants ·
Introduction (Manuela Cruz) ·
Current Status of Work (Natalie
Muric) ·
Glossary (Laia Bota) ·
Wiki Content Management (Enric
Staromiejski) ·
Code lists (Natalie Muric) ·
Conceptual Data Model (Maria Font) ·
Technical Documentation (Enric Staromiejski) ·
Planning of actions and tasks |
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List of Participants |
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Attendee Name (present) |
Initials |
Organisation / Email |
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Paul BORODAY |
PB |
OCDS |
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Laia BOTA |
LB |
everis |
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Patrizia CANNULI |
PC |
IT Consip |
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Oscar CORCHO |
OC |
Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid |
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Manuela CRUZ |
MC |
OP |
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Tim DAVIES |
TD |
OCDS |
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Kornelis DRIJFHOUT |
KD |
NL TenderNet |
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Maria FONT |
MF |
everis |
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Enrico FRANCESCONI |
EF |
OP |
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Virginia GOMARIZ |
VG |
everis |
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Olga GALUSCHKA |
OG |
Transparency
International Ukraine |
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Cécile GUASCH |
CG |
ISA2 Contractor |
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Jáchym HERCHER |
JH |
DG GROW |
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Natalie MURIC |
NM |
OP |
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Eliza NIEWIADOMSKA |
EN |
EBRD |
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Dmitry PALAMARCHUK |
DP |
Transparency
International Ukraine |
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Andrew ROBINSON |
AR |
OP Contractor |
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Claude SCHMIT |
CS |
OP |
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Enric STAROMIEJSKI |
ES |
everis |
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Oleksii YURCHENKO |
OY |
Transparency
International Ukraine |
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Summary
of Meeting |
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Presentation of
the Participants The particpants of the meeting presented themselves (see list of
participants – in alphabetical order). Introduction During the introduction it was explained that for various reasons
meetings had not taken place for sometime.
However work had continued and the purpose of this meeting was to have
an approval on the glossary and an
agreement on the work foreseen for the future. Current status
of work Work previously carried out by the working group meetings was described: 1.
Specifications &
Methodology 2.
3 draft use cases 3.
Basic illustrative:
Conceptual model & OWL file The working group was informed that work carried out between the
working group meetings concentrated on the eNotification phase namely: 1.
Glossary 2.
Data definition
dictionary (DED) The work foreseen to be carried out until June 2018 should cover the
eNotification and eAccess areas of public procurement. The deliverables foreseen and to be
presented in the meeting are: 1.
Data definition
dictionary (DED) 2.
Conceptual model 3.
Proof of Concept 4.
Use case testing 5.
OWL file Glossary How the glossary was created in synergy with the business terms of the
future eForms was presented. An
overall presentation of the glossary was made the glossary. The glossary can be found at: https://github.com/eprocurementontology/eprocurementontology/wiki/eProcurement-Glossary The working group requested more time to approve the glossary, an
extension for receiving comments was made until 9 March 2018. Some participants felt they could not do a
deep review during this period. It was pointed out that even if the glossary
was approved future updates of concepts would be possible so as to enrich the
ontology and to fully cover other use cases and evolutions. Working group members were also welcomed to
provide any input on concepts and definitions that they felt were lacking. Wiki Content Management A new way of presenting the glossary in excel and commenting
via the issues in github was presented.
The naming convention for issues could be followed for other parts of
the wiki. It was suggested that it would be a good practise to
populate automatically the google spreadsheet from the GitHub issues (see
org-id.guide platform: http://docs.org-id.guide/en/latest/contribute/); However, within this project it was not thought to be a good solution
as (i)
there is the need of
linking the glossary to the DED, and (ii)
the proposal is
using the GitHub issues workspace to debate about the Glossary entries and
definitions before adopting a final decision and transposing this decision
into a structured artefact. A call to look into github good practices is to be arranged between the
contractor and OCDS. It was explained that the github being presented would be uploaded onto
the current github if the working group agreed to this way of working. There were no objections. Code Lists Work carried out by the Publications Office within the same ISA2 action
covering code lists to be referenced in the ontology was presented. This presentation was given as a source of
information, the governance of this work being different to that of the
ontology, however any requirement for code list content or format would be
most welcomed. The working group will
be kept up-to-date on this work. Conceptual data
model The DED and the conceptual data model were presented. The DED is an excel file used to identify
the classes, attributes, relations and the cardinality of the Business Terms.
Enterprise Architect (EA) tool is
currently used to produce a graphic representation of the conceptual model,
based on the DED; Working Group members showed concerns about the use of EA to model the
Conceptual Model instead of an open source software. The reason for using EA was that the tool is
used in other ISA2 projects such as the Core Vocabularies and
therefore affording alignment with these other projects. Additionally, EA
provides interesting features, like automatic generation of the documentation
and exporting to open standard formats such as XMI. It was agreed that the EA model would be put
on line along with an XMI version. It was highlighted that the DED is a useful intermediate artefact
between the Glossary and the Conceptual model which facilitates analysis. Technical
Documentation The technical documentation to be uploaded on the wiki was presented Planning of actions and tasks Concerns were raised
as whether the work and in particular the use cases developed in ePO V1 would
be discarded. The working group was
assured that work previously done was to be integrated into the current work and
the group was encouraged to develop further the work on the use-cases and
competency questions. Finding ways of
working together with projects such as TheyBuyForYou would be mutually
beneficial and should be looked into. Future meetings are
planned: 28/03/2018 ·
To discuss the
competency questions. ·
Presentation of an
updated conceptual model to ensure it is being developed in the right way ·
Presentation of the
PoC approach, the use case and the expected results 27/04/2018 ·
Revision of the
ontology, conceptual model and design considerations 01/06/2018 ·
Revision of the
ontology, OWL implementation and results of the PoC ·
The work to be
presented in each meeting will generally be made available for the working
groups’ information approximately one week before each meeting. The action points decided
for the next meeting are listed below. |
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Action Points (AP): |
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AP# |
Name Description |
Due
Date |
Who |
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1 |
The wiki will be uploaded next week. |
27-02-2018 |
everis |
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2 |
Deliver example Competency Questions for the
WG to elaborate their own. |
09-03-2018 |
OP / everis |
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3 |
WG Members to provide their revision of the
Glossary. |
09-03-2018 |
WG |
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4 |
WG Members to identify missing concepts and
definitions. |
09-03-2018 |
WG |
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5 |
everis to meet TD ASAP to learn from OCDS
experiences. |
06-03-2018 |
TD / everis |
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6 |
everis to provide the Conceptual Model as it
stands as an XMI file on the GitHub as well as the source EA. |
ASAP |
everis |
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7 |
everis to provide the next draft of Conceptual
Model |
22/03/2017 |
everis |
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Proposed
Agenda for Next Meeting: |
Proposed Next Meeting Date: |
2018/03/28 |
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I.
Approve changes introduced by WG since the
last meeting; II.
Focus on the PoC approach / definition
(competency questions); III. Presentation
of the updated Conceptual Model; IV. AOB |
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