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Ontology Summit 2008 Planning Meeting - Tue 2008.01.22

This is going to be a planning meeting (conference call) for the Ontolog, NIST, co-organizer and co-sponsor community to finalize on the theme and other pertinent details of the upcoming OntologySummit2008.

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
  • Start Time: 1:00pm PST / 4:00pm EST / 21:00 GMT/UTC
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    • ... to register for participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the Ontolog community) above, or e-mail <peter.yim@cim3.com> so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ...

Agenda Ideas

  • ref. meeting announcement - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2008-01/msg00261.html
  • planning by the Ontolog, NIST, co-organizer and co-sponsor community to finalize on the theme and other pertinent details of the upcoming Ontology Summit 2008
    • finalize the "topic"
    • come up with a brief "charter" (to clarify the objectives and goals" of the effort
    • decide on a "Launch Event" (another virtual meeting) date/time
    • identify other immediate actions and initiatives
... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Resources

  • OntologySummit2008 homepage

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

  • Steve Ray took the chair and welcomed everyone
  • review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

3. Ontology Summit 2008 Planning - discussion:

  • Theme
    • "Toward An Open Ontology Repository"
  • Objective / Goal / Charter (a mission statement)
    • Purpose, Roles, Architecture, Quality, Compatibility of Data, Interoperability, Gaps, ...
    • be real - have people bring ontologies to the table
    • monitoring conformity, consistency,
    • coherent objective way to discuss ontologies - a repository makes it concrete
    • implementation
    • Leo: see ISO-11179 based XMDR ... Steve: for tomorrow's discussion
    • Ravi, ref: Leo slide#6 on the OOR planning meeting deck at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_03
  • Dates
    • OntologySummitSummit2008 (Virtual) Launch Event to be held on Thu 2008.02.07 - ConferenceCall_2008_02_07
    • Face-to-face (F2F)- Mon & Tue 28 & 29-Apr-2008 (3rd day open, Interoperability Week will still be in session) - 2008_04_28 - 04_29 - Monday~Tuesday: Ontology Summit 2008 face-to-face workshop, held during NIST's Interoperability Week (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - see: OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda   
    • informal poll - who can make it to the F2F?

4. What's Next:

  • Barry: need people create summary statement; someone managing the conversation

5. Getting Organized:

6. Action items:

  • Barry: you can count on NCOR to be a co-organizer

7. Any Other Business:

  • The bulk of the discussion (after the first 25 min.) of this session has been recorded. The audio archive is available, in mp3 (~43 min. 5MB). Click here to download and listen.

8. Adjourn:

  • Call adjourned at: 2:20pmm PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.01.22-2:22pm PST

All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.



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