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During a discussion at our 2007.05.03 call, Ken Baclawski agreed to come up with some suggestions on a design of a mail format for Ontolog news announcements.     (1A1)

We will be discussing this during our ConferenceCall_2007_05_17.     (1A2)

The design starts with short headlines for meetings and related conferences. The headlines should fit in the first screen, and the simple design should help maximize the impact of the message. One can navigate to the longer announcements, which have external links.     (1C1)

My suggested design is hard to reproduce in the wiki as it is intended for a mail reader. The mail message consists of two parts each of which has the same information. The first part is an ordinary text message with no markup. This part is appropriate for mail readers that have limited functionality. The second part has html markup with internal as well as external links. I tried the format on a couple of mail readers (pine and Netscape), and they both understood the markup with no difficulty (and only showed a single message, not two messages). Each message is subdivided into two sections. The first section has the headlines. These are very brief with just date, speaker and title. One can click on each entry to navigate within the message to the longer announcement. Given the difficulty of reproducing all of the above here in the wiki, the following example is intended just to give a rough idea of what it looks like in a mail reader. To see what the message looks like in your own mail reader, ask me to email it to you.     (1C2)

The example begins here:     (1C3)

The online Ontolog events are open. Anyone who is interested, or (better still) who may have something to contribute, is welcome. Refer to individual event details on their respective session pages. The links are given below. Please make sure you are aware of our IPR policy when that is applicable, though, before participating.     (1E4)

Thursday, 10-May-2007     (1E5)

Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 7th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Professor Tatiana Malyuta from the City University of New York will be our invited speaker. She will be giving a talk on "Interaction of Ontology and Database in the Information System" Please refer to details at the session wiki page.     (1E6)

Thursday, 28-Jun-2007     (1E7)

Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 8th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Melliyal Annamalai from Oracle will be our invited speaker. Please refer to details, closer to the time, at the session wiki page.     (1E8)

Thursday, 05-Jul-2007     (1E9)

Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 9th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Chris Partridge from the UK will be our invited speaker. Please refer to details, closer to the time, at the session wiki page.     (1E10)

Thursday, 12-Jul-2007     (1E11)

Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 10th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa will be our invited speaker. Please refer to details, closer to the time, at the session wiki page.     (1E12)

July 9-11, 2007     (1E13)

10th Annual Open Forum on Metadata Registries: Integrating Standards in Practice - to be held in New York, New York. This Open Forum will focus on a series of core standards as well as on the selection, integration, and use of multiple standards in actual systems.     (1E14)

July 15-18, 2007     (1E15)

10th International Protege Conference - Budapest, Hungary.     (1E16)

July 24-27, 2007     (1E17)

ESAS 2007: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems, being held in conjunction with the 31st IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007) in Beijing, China. Paper submission deadline is March 20, 2007. Proceedings will be printed as part of 31st COMPSAC by the IEEE Computer Society Press.     (1E18)

The example ends here.     (1E19)

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To: peter.yim@cim3.com     (1F2)

Subject: Ontolog News and Announcements     (1F3)

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Message-Id: <E1Hnbx2-0005sq-Cr@cursa.ccs.neu.edu>     (1F7)

From: Kenneth Baclawski <kenb@ccs.neu.edu>     (1F8)

Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:55:04 -0400     (1F9)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.     (1F10)

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Ontolog Thursday Series     (1F15)

10 May 2007 Prof. Tatiana Malyuta     (1F16)

"Interaction of Ontology and Database in the Information System"     (1F17)

28 June 2007 Melliyal Annamalai     (1F18)

05 July 2007 Chris Partridge     (1F19)

12 July 2007 Dr. John Sowa     (1F20)

Related Conferences     (1F21)

9-11 July 2007 Open Forum on Metadata Registries, New York, NY     (1F22)

15-18 July 2007 Protege Conference, Budapest, Hungary     (1F23)

24-27 July 2007 ESAS 2007 Semantic Agent Systems, Beijing, China     (1F24)

The online Ontolog events are open. Anyone who is interested, or (better still)     (1F26)

who may have something to contribute, is welcome. Refer to individual event     (1F27)

details on their respective session pages. The links are given below. Please     (1F28)

make sure you are aware of our IPR policy when that is applicable, though,     (1F29)

before participating.     (1F30)

Thursday, 10-May-2007     (1F31)

Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 7th Event in the "Database And     (1F32)

Ontology" Mini-Series - Professor Tatiana Malyuta from the City     (1F33)

University of New York will be our invited speaker. She will be giving     (1F34)

a talk on "Interaction of Ontology and Database in the Information     (1F35)

System" Please refer to details at the session wiki page.     (1F36)

Thursday, 28-Jun-2007     (1F37)

Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 8th Event in the "Database And     (1F38)

Ontology" Mini-Series - Melliyal Annamalai from Oracle will be our     (1F39)

invited speaker. Please refer to details, closer to the time, at the     (1F40)

session wiki page.     (1F41)

Thursday, 05-Jul-2007     (1F42)

Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 9th Event in the "Database And     (1F43)

Ontology" Mini-Series - Chris Partridge from the UK will be our     (1F44)

invited speaker. Please refer to details, closer to the time, at the     (1F45)

session wiki page.     (1F46)

Thursday, 12-Jul-2007     (1F47)

Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 10th Event in the "Database     (1F48)

And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa will be our invited     (1F49)

speaker. Please refer to details, closer to the time, at the session     (1F50)

wiki page.     (1F51)

July 9-11, 2007     (1F52)

10th Annual Open Forum on Metadata Registries: Integrating Standards     (1F53)

in Practice - to be held in New York, New York. This Open Forum will     (1F54)

focus on a series of core standards as well as on the selection,     (1F55)

integration, and use of multiple standards in actual systems.     (1F56)

July 15-18, 2007     (1F57)

10th International Protege Conference - Budapest, Hungary.     (1F58)

July 24-27, 2007     (1F59)

ESAS 2007: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic     (1F60)

Agent Systems, being held in conjunction with the 31st IEEE Annual     (1F61)

International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC     (1F62)

2007) in Beijing, China. Paper submission deadline is March 20,     (1F63)

2007. Proceedings will be printed as part of 31st COMPSAC by the IEEE     (1F64)

Computer Society Press.     (1F65)

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