Dear all, the Denmark-based Bonsamurais have thought to arrange a 2 days in-person workshop to follow-up on some of the open issues left after the hackathon. The idea is to refresh our memories and ho

For the first time, sustainable development, broadly defined and all-encompassing, has been enshrined in international policy discussions and quickly adopted by national governments, NGOs and the glob

Dear fellow Bonsamurais- Just a quick note to let you know that I am currently at the International Emissions Inventory conference (agenda here) hosted by the US EPA. I will be presenting BONSAI, and

Dear all A couple of months ago I went to the openmod workshop in Aarhus. One of the “do-a-thons” was a discussion about the ontology of scenarios. They are trying to find common ways to express scena

Dear all- I just had a productive conversation with Javier Godar and Michael Lathuillière from the TRASE project (https://trase.earth/). They are doing some really nice work (and already have some nic

Hi all, I'm back from ESWC'19 in Portorož, Slovenia. The conference is a well known venue for Semantic Web researchers and practitioners. I've presented our work with the poster and we were lucky enou

Hi all, I was not considering disk space... it appears that the disk on db.bonsai.uno is full (and I've inserted only 2-3gb worth of data, another 10GB are waiting). I'm not sure how/why this happened

Hi everyone We had a short catch up meeting this morning, where we followed up with the working groups. We identified a few issues that need support, and the need for some deadlines to help in the pro

Dear all- 1. If you haven't voted for or against BEP 1, please do it now! If not enough people participate, the proposal will automatically fail. 2. We have had a lively discussion on the terminology

Not trying to start a flame war or anything, but "flow object" is just... not great. It is inconsistent with all our other core terms, it rolls off the tongue like a porcupine, and I guarantee you tha

Hey, I start a discussion here on the new bonsai.uno webpage. Here is the structure suggested by Chris. Vision (short) Common ontology for LCA, MFA, and IE Open data pipeline By the community, for the

Next catch-up meeting We will have another catch-up meeting on 12.4.19 at 15:00 CEST, and then skip the next week (19.4.19) due to Easter holidays. 5.4.19 Catch-up meeting minutes Correspondence table

BEP-0004 is available here for input and discussion: https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/enhancements/blob/bep4-communications/beps/0004-bonsai-communication-strategy.md Feel free to reply here. Kind regar

Maybe our approach to serializing large graphs is maybe not that great. You can see the current code here - basically, we convert Python to JSON line by line, with some text mangling. It sounds (and l

Dear all- As many of you have already realized, we need to organize and document our infrastructure a bit better. Specifically, I see a need for: Standard practice guidelines on maintaining the RDF da

A new poll has been created: Dear all, it is time to vote for the BEP-0001 (BONSAI Enhancement Proposal Template): The proposal has been standing for a month. The proposed template has already been us

This sounds good to me, please submit a PR with the suggested types, and add your name to the authors list! Still looking for an editor :)

Hello, with Tom, we would like to suggest the use of Issues, Labels and the more general Project board features of GitHub to better visualize the long-term tasks described in the Wiki and benefit from

We should maybe mention that to participate in the General Assembly, which is the formal governing body of BONSAI according to the Statutes, a formal membership is required, which you obtain by paying

Hello, the Bonsai enhancement proposal 0002 is now up for discussion: https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/enhancements/blob/master/beps/0002-bonsai-project-community-governance-structure.md#bep-0002-bonsai