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OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 03-Mar-2008

  • This is the 3rd conference call of the Ontology Summit 2008 organizing committee. The session is expected to be a ~1 Hour conference call.

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Thursday, March 3, 2008
  • Start Time: 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST / 20:30 GMT/UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: ~ 1.0 Hour
  • Dial-in Number:
    • from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
      • Conference ID: "5823120#"
    • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
  • Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
    • view-only password: "ontolog"

Attendees

  • Expecting:
  • Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

  • postmortem and follow-up actions on the Thu 2008.02.28 joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Session
    • Peter: do a similar session on early-adopter content-provider (i.e.ontology developers and stewards) and their requirements & expectations?
    • Peter: do another session on ontology-of-ontology?
  • reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
  • status review and action plans for the online discourse
  • status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
  • status review on how we are getting the word out
  • proposing candidates for co-editors of the Communique draft
... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

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

2. Roll Call:

3. Status / Discussion of developing issues:

  • Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call)
    • submit last year's communique to Applied Ontologies Journal [attn: Steve]
  • Discussions:
  • postmortem and follow-up actions on the Thu 2008.02.28 joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Session
    • proceedings at: ConferenceCall_2008_02_28
    • do a similar session on early-adopter content-provider (i.e.ontology developers and stewards) and their requirements & expectations?
    • do another session on ontology-of-ontology?
    • Peter will run this by the OOR team at the next call
  • reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
    • see latest update -
    • Status: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2008-03/msg00006.html
      • all invitations out, except for (f.2) & (f.3);
      • accepted - 17
      • declined - 2
      • discussing - 3
      • awaiting response - 14
      • need candidates for: (f.2) EU-FP7 banner carrier, and (f.3) candidate(s) from Asia working in the domain
        • we'll drop (f.2)
        • (f.3): Barry will have one Japan candidate; Peter to pursue a Hong Kong candidate; Steve to propose a Korean candidate; we'll ping Ivan (Peter) and Bruce (Leo) for suggestion for other Asian candidates;
  • status review online discourse
    • we need to step up the level of activities here
    • move the summary pages up ... under the Ontology Summit 2008: "What's New"
    • Michelle to prompt the champions to put out strawman positions and get the various main topic threads going
    • Peter: I was thinking of inviting certain discussion champions over to join us at the organizing committee call, but would want to discuss this here first, and maybe do it next time.
    • Team: we should have this as a separate meeting, maybe same day (Mondays) right after the organizing committee meeting
      • first call Wed 2008.03.05 1 Hr starting 1:15pm EST / 10:15am PST - Michelle to announce, Peter to help create the session page template (with Michelle doing the agenda and real content.)
  • status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
    • Steve: url for the NIST Interoperability Week will be available real soon,
      • and with that to the registration pages for each workshop, including ours.
    • Susan Turnbull will be hosting an Expedition Workshop on the third day of Interoperability Week (i.e. Apr-30) too; we'll try to invite our community to join her on that session as well.
    • Steve: there will be no "plenary session" this year for Interoperability Week
    • Steve to start setting up a preliminary time-table, and a draft agenda - to be out by next Monday
  • status review on how we are getting the word out
    • Steve: will get the NIST public affairs people to continue to help us with getting the word out
  • proposing candidates for co-editors of the Communique draft
    • Michelle: suggest we have an outline for the communique
    • communique should be short ... almost like a press release, and a message from this team to the rest of the world.
    • candidate co-editors for the draft communique - nominations - adopted

5. New Issues:

  • potential conflicting workshop in Toronto on 2008.04.28~30 (ref. Doug Lenat's input) - Steve to find out

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Call adjourned at: 1:31 pm PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.03.03-1:32pm PST

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



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