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OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 31-Mar-2008

  • This is the 7th 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 31, 2008
  • Start Time: 12:30am PDT / 3:30pm EDT / 19:30 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

  • review status of "Advisory Committee" and the 'welcome letter'
  • postmortem on the 2/28 & 3/27 OOR-Panel sessions and review preparation status for the 2 upcoming ones - 4/3 & 4/10
  • status review and action plans for the online discourse
  • status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation - review agenda
  • draft communique preparation status
  • status review on how we are getting the word out
... (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
  • note that we have a hard stop at 1:30pm PDT / 4:30pm EDT as the Content Committee will be having their weekly call then. Which mean we have to finish this call in 1 hour or less.

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] - Steve contacted Michael Grüninger who will be working on it
    • Leo and Steve will try to provide input by tomorrow, suggest we give Michael a go ahead even if there is no input.
  • Discussions:
  • status review online discourse
  • status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
    • Steve: Registration Announcement and URL for Interoperability Week is now ready, Peter will post to the wiki
    • Steve: draft agenda now at - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda
      • it was agreed that we will not have a "plenary/keynote" speaker
      • Barry: any chance of webcasting the F2F workshop? - Steve will find out
        • Steve: it'll cost $3600 ... will pass, since we have audio recording, and slides. We can do a bit more on still pictures.
    • structuring the discussion ... unifying plot through the communique
    • distinction between the intellectual content and the pragmatics of the future OOR-team implementation effort
    • OOR team may need to meet about funding (which would be totally independent of the summit agenda)
    • informal gathering on Monday evening?
    • Mark: how would time be spent at the F2F on each of the topics
      • Michelle: (a) report on what has transpired, (b) possibly invited presentations from key player(s), (c) open discussion (which would be 50% of the total time alloted; or at least 30~45 min.)
    • Mark to Steve: can we start at 8:00am .. .not so much for the start time, but rather, can we fit everything in
    • Time allotment: architecture - 2:00Hrs; state-of-art, quality & gatekeeping and ontology of ontology - each 1:15; all time squeezed out goes to the breaks (because they are among the most important parts of the F2F)
    • we could revisit the session order and time allotment again after the 4/10 ont-of-ont OOR-Panel (say, on our 4/14 organizing committee call.)
    • idea: we could split the architecture session with lunch in between.
    • Mark: we should have demos; if not at the sessions, maybe in the evenings, during the Tuesdays breaks, during lunch, etc.
      • Steve will pursue this and bring back suggestions next week.
  • the OntologySummit2008_Communique
    • Leo Obrst and Mark Musen were elected as our co-editors for the Communique and we'll look to them to get an outline and a draft out some time soon
    • please do draft work at: OntologySummit2008_Communique/Draft
    • develop a narrative how these all connect:
      • what is the state-of-the-art in ontology repositories
      • where are ontologies and where are mappings of ontologies
      • what the gateway folks can come up with (entry requirement) -- criteria, validation, certification, ...
      • methodology
      • requirements from content providers
      • to make it serious, we need to develop an ontology of ontologies
      • OOR roadmap to realization
    • Barry: Mark & Leo should communicate what they expect from the content champions (Mark: we'll email)
      • Leo: forthcoming ... hopefully this week.
  • status review on how we are getting the word out
    • Steve: will get the NIST public affairs office to continue to help us with getting the word out
      • Steve: will have a draft of the Interoperability Week press release within the next couple of days - will circulate that to the organizing committee list.

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Call adjourned at: 1:33 pm PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.03.31-1:33 pm PDT

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



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