Welcome to the KGG Book Club Wiki about "Ontology Engineering"!

This club is for reading Deborah McGuinness’ and Elisa Kendall’s Ontology Engineering. A discount code for purchasing the book is available when you sign up for the book club.

This is a book club, not a class; the participants are expected to, well, participate. This can mean asking questions, proposing answers, and participating in discussions.

Code of conduct

This is a professional meeting, and it is expected that all attendees will comport themselves in a professional manner, and are expected to observe the Code of Conduct of the Knowledge Graph Conference and Community.

The Club Wiki

We will use this Wiki to manage content for the book club. Each session has its own page, summarized in the Schedule. This is a wiki; we'd like all participants to contribute to it, including questions, answers, discussion points, etc. We want this to be a shared resource for the club.

Contributing to the Wiki

In order to fully contribute to the wiki, you will have to have a GitHub account. If you don't already have one, please sign up for GitHub; it's free and easy to sign up for, and useful for a lot of things. The wiki pages can be read by anyone, but in order to contribute, you need to sign in. If you aren't registered for GitHub, you can do so easily at the top of this page.

Wiki pages

Each session has its own page, with sections for Questions and Minutes. We will gather questions up until the Tuesday before the meeting (probably cut off around noon eastern time), and put them into the wiki; these will guide the start of the discussion. Of course, more questions can come up just before or even during the meeting; we'll do our best to chronicle these.

Answers will be minuted during the meeting, as best we can. We may nominate a 'scribe' for each meeting to help record these.

Asking questions

Prepare some questions for each session in advance. Use git issues to enter them. Assign a chapter label as appropriate.

• Click this link to enter your question as a git issue.
• Click on the bright green "New Issue" button at the top right of the page.
• Add a title and enter the content of your question using markdown syntax.
• Add a chapter label with the appropriate number
  • Click the gear icon to the right of the labels section on the far right of the page.
  • Click the appropriate purple/pink chapter icon; you will see a checkmark.
  • If you make a mistake, click the label again to remove the checkmark.
  • There should be an OK button, but there is not. To lock in your choice, click somewhere else on the web page away from the labels area.
• Click on the "Submit new issue" button at the bottom right of the issue you just entered.
• If you forgot to add a label, you can do so after submitting the issue
• Create a separate issue for each question.

You can also write your question directly on the appropriate wiki page.

Attending the Meetings

Meetings take place every Wednesday at 11 am EST, starting June 23, 2021, going until July 21, 2021.

You should have received a Zoom link by email when you registered.

Discussing the Book During the Week:

1. Slack signup link: https://app.slack.com/client/T010MA9PX3K/C010JHYAB9Q
2. Join the #bookclub channel

Instructions:

1. On the left-hand panel in Slack, hover your mouse near the heading “Channels” until the three stacked dots--a link to the settings menu--appear.
2. Click these, and then select “browse channels” from the drop-down menu that appears.
3. scroll to “#bookclub”
4. press join.

Viewing recordings

Will be posted in #bookclub Slack channel and hosted at https://conference.knowledgegraph.tech/

Getting help:

Ask questions on #bookclub channel on Slack.