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Ontology Summit 2011: Getting Organized

This is a scratch workspace for the organization, coordination and planning of OntologySummit2011.

Theme: Making the Case for Ontology

6th in the series of a 3-month open annual event by and for the Ontology Community. This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD

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Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee Meetings

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.05.13

Conference call details:

  • Add you Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • ...
  • Note that the date of this meeting has been rescheduled (previously Fri 2011.04.29, now Fri 2011.05.13) based on the doodle poll input received.

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 0:51:11 ; mp3 ; 5.9 MB)

[ chat-transcript (unedited) ] . [ chat-transcript (edited) ]

  • Opening & welcome
    • this is likely our last organizing committee meeting for this Ontology Summit season
  • What worked well?
    • addition to the co-organizers roster significant
    • good engagement
    • on schedule
    • much more ready for the symposium and the communique
    • unprecedented level of activities (13 virtual sessions in addition to the symposium)
  • what could have improved?
    • we weren't able top get around to some people who had good cases to present
    • Nicola Guarino: some application cases
    • Michael Grüninger: balancing the obsession on the communique to more lasting deliverables (like the collection of cases)
    • the wiki works well as a workspace, we would want a presentation space for this work
    • our visibility on the blogosphere this year has actually been lower, compared to previous years
  • how should we do it better next year
  • Follow-up actions - beyond the (just finished) 3-month summit program
    • getting the word out
      • make a press release?
    • continuing activities ...
      • feature more "Application Cases" on the Ontolog Forum (especially ones that were lined-up/offered for the Summit, which we weren't able to get presented)
    • document them in accordance with the "Ontology Usage Framework" and "Value Metrics" that were established during the Summit
    • emerging projects ...
  • Follow-up actions & programs:
    • 1. write-up/document the Ontology Summit 2011 results [champion: Steve Ray, Michael Uschold, PeterYim]
    • 2. schedule further sessions on Ontolog Forum to feature the cases we missed ... and solicit more applications cases, and incorporate them into the framework we have already developed - making this a continuous effort [champion: Michael Uschold, PeterYim]
      • Guarino: we could even have a special issue of AOJ on these cases, however, the papers will need to delve into the ontology a lot more than what we have done so far
      • Uschold: maybe the Ontology Usage Framework could provide what is needed in such documentation ... West: an earlier FOMI paper of mine did pretty much that.
    • 3. make the collected work into a more "presentable" format and get the word out [champion: AliHashemi]
  • Preparing for the Community Summit-postmortem session of Thu 2011.05.19
    • co-chairs - Steve Ray and Nicola Guarino
    • Agenda:
      • Opening (Ray & Guarino)
      • Discussion - What worked and what can be improved
      • Follow-up Actions Presentations - Documenting Ontology Summit 2011 (Ray, Uschold, Yim); Ongoing Project to collect and present Application Cases (Uschold, Hashemi, Yim); Dressing up and getting the word out (Hashemi)
      • Brainstorm - candidate themes for Ontology Summit 2012
      • Peter: I will be expecting 4 decks of slides from: Steve Ray (opening), Steve Ray (documentation), Michael Uschold (more cases), Ali Hashemi (Media)
        • slides expected by end-of-day Tuesday May-17 ... please drop me a note by then with an ETA, even if they are not ready, and you needed more time
        • Peter will work up some stats and feed that to Steve and Nicola for the preparation of the opening slides

Transcript of the online chat during the session

see raw transcript here.

(for better clarity, the version below is a re-organized and lightly edited chat-transcript.)

Participants are welcome to make light edits to their own contributions as they see fit.

-- begin of chat session --

Peter P. Yim: = Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.05.13 =

Peter P. Yim: see details at:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011/GettingOrganized#nid2RTW

anonymous morphed into Ali Hashemi

anonymous morphed into Steve Ray

Steve Ray: I suggest we add our comments here, so they are better captured.

Steve Ray: I felt we were "on schedule" during the whole 3 months, without a mad rush at the end to

synthesize ideas.

Michael Uschold: People worked hard to link the tracks, cross referring to content in other tracks.

Matthew West: Apologies for late arrival. I'm on the call now.

Mike Bennett: @Peter - things we did not manage to fit in - e.g. there were a good few case studies

we wanted, but the early sessions were too short notice for some of these, and we did not get a

later slot which at the start we thought we would get. We needed to know a date well in advance on

which we could invite people to present, and we did not know if or when later dates would be, until

too late.

Steve Ray: One concern I have is that a lot of the great material residing in the track synthesis

pages will be overlooked.

Mike Bennett: So we should have carved out all of the dates at the outset.

Ali Hashemi: To build on the point by Steve Ray above -- I think we can do more to present the outcome

of the summit in a more accessible way

Michael Uschold: We should follow up with some of the people that did not get a chance to present.

Additional case studies, for example.

Ali Hashemi: The current state is throwing a lot of text at people at once, and isn't the easiest

artefact to read and/or engage with.

Nicola Guarino: Concerning use cases, one problem emerged was that the ontologies used in these cases

are often not visible...

Michael Uschold: Further to @Nicola's comment, there also needs to be more details on exactly how the

ontology was used, the architecture, and the value.

Mike Bennett: @Nicola agreed. A lot of the case studies were a bit reticent about what was under the

hood - some of it was a bit proprietary. The ones we wanted to do later might have been less

sales-y.

Mike Bennett: A possible follow-up action is to go back to the folks who presented case studies, and

get them to do a basic description against the framework (I did these by hand after, and it was a

bit vague in places).

Michael Uschold: I agrree with @MikeBennett

Mike Bennett: With the Wiki it would have been helpful to be able to put tables up on the wiki. Maybe

this is trivially easy and we just didn't get time to learn the code? I saw some tables from others,

but when I tried to look at the code, these were gifs.

Michael Uschold: I agree with @AliHashemi, the results are not easily accessed, not so readable.

Needs to be different from the WIki, which was not designed for slick appearance. I often hesitate

to forward people to the site, for this reason.

Mike Bennett: @MichaelUschold +1 - it's a good place to get things done, and we all hae had a chance

to get used to it, but for presentation to others there are not enought visual cues to let the users

know where they are.

Ali Hashemi: @MichaelUschold +1 as well. It can be even used a CMS, to drive content to other sites.

Ali Hashemi: For layout, maybe something more along the lines of what the ACM is doing:

Ali Hashemi: http://mags.acm.org/communications/201105?pg=24#pg24

Peter P. Yim: [action] Peter to put link of Communique pdf at the top of that wiki page too

Ali Hashemi: I shared a google document with you all regarding a (set of) documents targeted towards

media outlets:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ueViQ8BhRHye64NlkgvH49wpgDev_aLrpwi79MZ5_O8/edit?hl=en&authkey=COb8q-sN#

Steve Ray: Documentation activity: Steve Ray, Michael Uschold, Peter P. Yim

Nicola Guarino: We can think of a series of papers for Applied Ontology each one picking up a few

(more or less homogeneous) case studies, presenting and discussing them... We could appoint specific

people for this task... Of course these papers should be properly reviewed... What do you think of

this idea?

Steve Ray: Second activity: Set up an ongoing collection of use-cases, build a sustainable activity

Michael Uschold: Making the results more conveniently presented can either be done by a volunteer, or

we can find funds to pay a web developer, say to put something together that looks good.

Steve Ray: Third activity: Redesign a more accessible presentation of results

Steve Ray: ...where "results" means the entire body of knowledge

Ali Hashemi: I'd be happy to volunteer for the 3rd activity

Peter P. Yim: one more observation: our visibility on the blogosphere this year has actually been lower,

compared to previous years

Ali Hashemi: It could be as simple as each of us, or asking those on ontolog who do maintain blogs to

post about it?

Michael Uschold: I did put my slide show up on

http://www.slideshare.net/UscholdM/making-the-case-for-ontology. It has 61 views so far.

Michael Uschold: I am interested in participating in an ongoing effort to gather use cases, improve

the usage framework, etc.

Ali Hashemi: Re MichaelUschold's point regarding paying a developer -- there is often a noticeable

difference, especially in web design, between amateurs and people who really know what they're

doing... Is there actually a possibility to fund the eventual design?

Mike Bennett: I'm happy to help with case studies work, time permitting. time a bit tight over the

coming months though.

Michael Uschold: @Nicola, is the communique publishable as it is, as was done for the 2010

communique? OR does need a deeper presentation? or both?

Peter P. Yim: [action] Michael Uschold to formally submit the Communique (as is in the pdf) to AOJ

Michael Uschold: Agree with @MichaelGruninger that there needs to be clear guidelines for describing

use cases, especially for a journal publication. E.g. some details of the ontology itself, the

architecture of the system, where the ontology fits, the role of the ontology.

Michael Uschold: Maybe we can further develop the ontology usage framework, have it be required

metadata for submissions along these lines. We also need to write a paper that most perfectly does

the things we want, for others to emulate.

Michael Uschold: signing off.

Ali Hashemi: Perhaps also clarify different levels of detail at which the referred actual ontology

case study would have to be elaborated in a paper - building on the usage framework.

Matthew West: Here is the link to the paper (that aligns with MichaelUschold's suggestion of how

paper should be submitted) I mentioned: http://www.matthew-west.org.uk/documents/FOMI%20Enterprise%20Data%20Modelling.pdf

Mike Bennett: I'm going to have to drop off now (call at top of hour)

Peter P. Yim: -- session ended: 8:06am PDT --

-- end of chat session --

  • Any other business - none

-- session ended: 2011.05.13-8:06am PDT --

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.04.08

Conference call details:

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 0:53:32 ; mp3 ; 6.17 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • Opening & welcome
    • this is likely our last organizing committee meeting before the Apr-18 & 19 OntologySummit2011_Symposium
    • this organizing committee will meet one more time shortly after the symposium to do a postmortem of this year's Summit - let's pick a date now: how about same time, Friday 2011.04.29 ... ?
    • we would want to do a similar session with the entire community (as we did previously too) - how about the following Thursday 2011.05.05 ...?
  • Finalizing the Track-1 Label
    • changed from "Ontology Application Framework" to "Ontology Usage Framework" confirmed [MichaelGruninger, Michael Uschold, NicolaGuarino]
  • there will be a community virtual "(pre-symposium) preparation and review session" on Thu 2011.04.14 - please mark your calendars and participate (especially those of us who are involved in the Communique and the Symposium)
    • Agenda or suggestions for this ConferenceCall_2011_04_14 ...?
      • session co-chair [ Steve Ray & Leo Obrst ]
      • present (tweak) final Symposium Program, logistics & Q&A [SteveRay]
      • status and next draft of the Communique [MichaelUschold et al.]
    • we need Todd Schneider at this session [attn: Todd]
  • Getting ready for the OntologySummit2011_Symposium [RamSriram, LeoObrst]
    • registration count - (as of Wed 2011.04.08 7:48 EDT) - onsite: 71 ... remote: 11
      • note that some panelists are not registered yet!
      • NIST will not be able to share more info about the registrants (e.g. citizenship), except for the list we've already got
    • Venue? - NIST (Gaitherburg) or Raytheon (Virgina, near Dulles Airport)
      • when do we finalize the decision?
        • notify registrants of a backup plan today (Fri 4/8) - to registrants, [ontology-summit] and all panelists [Steve]
        • Peter to subscribe all on-site registrants, and all panelists to the [ontology-summit] list (if they aren't already)
          • letting everyone know that we will have a final decision (on venue) by the Thu 2011.04.07 session (we will need to circulate that decision by email to the same group too on Thu 4/14) [Steve]
          • on the email, have the non-US citizens contact Steve
          • have people who are registering today (4/8) also notifying Steve & Peter [Steve]
      • what else needs done if it's Raytheon?
        • Raytheon support facility for remote attendance [Steve / Todd]
        • Raytheon recording the session (as NIST would do)? [Steve / Todd]
    • Symposium Program
      • the Day-2 (Apr-19 am) Stakeholder-Adopter Panel - Co-chairs: Leo Obrst & Ram D. Sriram - confirmed Panelists: Bill Andersen, Dennis Wisnosky, George Strawn, George Thomas, Michael Grüninger, Nicola Guarino, ... other invited: David Gunning (pending), Vijay Khanna (GIV) (can't come), Stefano Bertolo (can't come), Chris Menzel (can't come).
        • expectations? speaking order?
        • to be communicated to the panelists ...? [Leo]
          • must register to get access to NIST
          • focus; 10 minute briefings?
          • .... ?
      • Finalize agenda ... discussion, tweak, finalize
      • Leo will send out the latest agenda (to the same people Steve is notifying about contingency venue) ... and will add the "Fabian Rule" there; also remind panelists to register with NIST today. [Leo]
    • logistics?
    • Miscellaneous
      • KSU / Denise Bedford sponsored breakfast-coffee on Day-1 ... status? [Steve]
    • anything else?
  • Getting the work-in-progress Communique ready
    • plans between now and Apr-14
      • have a next draft [Uschold & Bateman] ready by the Thu 4/14 community session
    • upto the time we walk into the Symposium
      • will have a final draft that all the co-lead editors have bought into [Uschold, Bateman, Sowa, Davis, Guarino]
    • expectations during the Symposium
    • Michael Uschold: soliciting input on what people want to see on the Communique
      • Fabian: suggest asking for the input, and providing a deadline for people (to send in input) ... and stipulate how further input is regulated [Fabian will put his suggestion on email to the organizing committee]
  • Any other business
  • Next meeting - Fri 2011.04.29 - starting 7:00am PDT / 10:00am EDT / 4:00pm CEST / 3:00pm BST / 14:00 UTC (ref. world clock)

-- session ended: 2011.04.08-8:00am PDT --

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.03.25

Conference call details:

Summit Organizing Committee Members: please feel free to add your suggested agenda ideas below.

Please be cautious about the meeting time for this meeting, as some countries are moving into daylight saving time, and others aren't yet! Kindly double check on the world clock just to be sure! Thanks. =ppy

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:04:36 ; mp3 ; 7.40 MB)

[ chat-transcript ] (raw)

  • Structure of the symposium / Keynote speakers / panelists
    • Ram: Cita Furlani will be doing an Opening Remark at 9:00am Apr-18
    • developing symposium agenda to be at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Symposium#nid2PU5
    • possibilities of: keynote only; keynote & panel; panel only
    • Dennis W - best to invite as a panelist
    • [action] Peter to find out from George status of the Chris G invitation
    • [action] Steve will notify people of a no-host dinner on Apr-18
    • [action: Ram & Leo] targeting to have the structure (and 80% done agenda) for the symposium by Tue Mar-29
  • Registrations
    • as of yesterday (Mar-24) 25 people have registered with NIST, to be coming to the symposium
    • [action] Steve will send out a reminder about symposium registration (Ram: please write to the speakers too)
  • Review of remaining events
    • Mar-31 - (Panel-9) All Hands - synthesis and reports
    • Apr-7 - Communique draft review session
    • Apr-14 - (pre-symposium) final preparation and review session
    • Apr-18 & 19 - (F2F) Workshop and Symposium ...
      • any in- or post- Summit-symposium sessions or events? (e.g. dinner on April 18th)
  • Update from communique team
    • John F. Sowa: the 'evidence' is the meat of it
    • ALL: we will do a communique as we did before
    • to do or not do an additional powerpoint to supplement the communique will be left to the Communique Lead Editing team [Steve will discuss with Communique team offline]
    • [action: Communique Leads & Steve] targeting to get table-of-content and section-writing assignment out (to the track champions, if any) by Wed Mar-30
  • Other business
  • Next meeting - Fri 2011.04.08 - starting 7:00am PDT / 10:00am EDT / 4:00pm CEST / 3:00pm BST / 14:00 UTC (ref. world clock)

-- session ended: 2011.03.25-8:08am PDT --

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.03.11

Conference call details:

Summit Organizing Committee Members: please feel free to add your suggested agenda ideas below.

Ref. Steve's 2011.02.28 post and subsequent conversations, this meeting has moved one hour earlier (compared to previous ones!)

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 0:50:04 ; mp3 ; 5.7 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • review and adopt agenda
  • Assessment: how are we doing with respect to our Summit objectives and goals?
  • Review: Event Calendar - dates reserved/confirmed (so far):
    • Jan-20 - Launch Event
    • Jan-27 - (Panel-1) Track-2: Ontology Application Use Cases - I
    • Feb-3 - (Panel-2) Track-1: Ontology Application Framework
    • Feb-10 - (Panel-3) Track-2: Ontology Application Use Cases - II
    • Feb-17 - (Panel-4) Track-3: Value Metrics, Value Models and the Value Proposition
    • Feb-24 - (Panel-5) Track-4: Strategies for 'Making the Case'
    • Mar-3 - (Panel-6) Integrating the Ontology Application Framework, Use Cases, Value and Metrics
    • Mar-10 - (event cancelled)
    • Mar-17 - (Session-7) Perspectives from the European Commission
    • Mar-24 - (Panel-8) Track-5: Grand Challenges
    • Mar-31 - (Panel-9) All Hands - synthesis and reports
    • Apr-7 - Communique draft review session
    • Apr-14 - (pre-symposium) final preparation and review session
    • Apr-18 & 19 - (F2F) Workshop and Symposium ...
      • any in- or post- Summit-symposium sessions or events?
  • Key items to be discussed:
    • finalizing plans for the Mar-17 panel session [Guarino]
    • finalizing plans for the Mar-24 panel session [Sriram+Lucier+Dima]
    • getting prepared for the Mar-31 - (Panel-9) All Hands - synthesis and reports
      • Panelists - General-chairs (Ray), rep. from each track (Gruninger, Bennett, Schneider, West, Sriram), rep. from Communique lead editors (Uschold), 10 minutes brief from each ... then open discussion
    • F2F Symposium planning and key personnel invitations [Sriram, Obrst; and Ray, Guarino, Strawn]
      • goals, keynote speakers, and other invitations
      • F2F Symposium Announcement
        • NIST registration page is now up ... like last year, NIST will handle the on-site participant registration (this is mandatory for access to a federal government facility), Peter will handle the remote participant registration.
        • Steve and Peter will get announcements out ASAP (as people who would need to book their flights one month in advance will only have a few days left to do it.)
        • KSU is sponsoring one of our coffee breaks
        • travel assistance confirmed for: Ray, Guarino, West, Brooks, Yim
    • deciding on a Communique Table-of-content, and the division of labor to contributing editors
      • Uschold: the lead-editing team will have their pow-wow, and then post a draft table-of-content, with contribution expectations
    • contingency plan - in case the feds are shut down after Mar-18 (affecting the Mar-24 "Grand Challenge" panel, and the Apr-18+19 F2F)
      • Mar-18: if gov't is shut down, Ray+Yim will co-chair that session
      • Apr-18&19 - we will revisit a contingency plan early April - one possibility is to make the Symposium totally virtual; or do it at MITRE or one of the Universities ... suggested candidates: Leo Obrst, Denise Bedford, Kathy Laskey, TimFinin. ... Todd Schneider will also explore possibility at the Raytheon facility near Dulles.
        • Steve Ray will champion the exploration with these possibilities.
          • Leo will check and get back to Steve; will also send foreign nationals' registration requirement
  • program suggestions, input & discussion
  • Any other business
    • revisiting the start time of the next organizing committee meeting - ref. input from Uschold, Schneider
  • Next meeting - Fri 2011.03.25 - starting 7:00am PDT / 10:00am EDT / 3:00pm CET / 2:00pm GMT / 14:00 UTC (ref. world clock)
    • the rest of the organizing committee calls will be on this slot ... do note start time carefully, as some countries have gone into daylight saving time, and others have not!

-- session ended: 2011.03.11-7:55am PST --

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.02.25

Conference call details:

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 2:18:12 ; mp3 ; 15.82 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • review and adopt agenda
  • Assessment: how are we doing with respect to our Summit objectives and goals?
    • Matthew: one concern - a lot is dependent on the Ontology Application Framework, status?
  • Review: Event Calendar - dates reserved/confirmed (so far):
    • Jan-20 - Launch Event
    • Jan-27 - (Panel-1) Track-2: Ontology Application Use Cases - I
    • Feb-3 - (Panel-2) Track-1: Ontology Application Framework
    • Feb-10 - (Panel-3) Track-2: Ontology Application Use Cases - II
    • Feb-17 - (Panel-4) Track-3: Value Metrics, Value Models and the Value Proposition
    • Feb-24 - (Panel-5) Track-4: Strategies for 'Making the Case'
    • Mar-3 - (Panel-6) Integrating the Ontology Application Framework, Use Cases, Value and Metrics
    • Mar-10 - (Panel-7) Track-5: Grand Challenges
    • Mar-17 - (Panel-8) Perspectives from Europe
    • Mar-24 - (Panel-9) (still open)*
    • Mar-31 - (Panel-10) All Hands - synthesis and report
    • Apr-7 - Communique draft review session
    • Apr-14 - (pre-symposium) final preparation and review session
    • Apr-18 & 19 - (F2F) Workshop and Symposium
  • Key items to be discussed:
    • ref. http://interop.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit-org/2011-02/msg00056.html#nid07
    • finalizing plans for the Mar-3 panel session - (Panel-6) Integrating the Ontology Application Framework, Use Cases, Value and Metrics [Ray, Gruninger+Uschold+Guarino, Davis+Bennett, Schneider+Brooks]
      • see: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2011-02/msg00045.html
      • Todd Schneider will not be able to join, but Rex Brooks from Track-3 will
      • Steve Ray will be in DC area and will be running this session at NIST (Gaithersberg, MD)
      • Application Framework - covering kinds of applications, approach and benefits
      • stakeholders and audience we need to make the case to
      • 'Making the Case' through the use of different filters so the pitch is optimal for a particular audience or context
      • Use Cases helps us make sure that the Framework is expressive enough
      • Chair: Steve Ray - Prepared Presentations: Michael Grüninger (Framework), Rex Brooks (Value Metrics), Mike Bennett (Use Cases - how they fit into the framework) - then Open Discussion: on audience, filters, applying the framework, making the case, etc.
      • Steve, Michael, Rex, Todd and Mike will meet to sync-up - Mon 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 9pm GMT
    • F2F Symposium planning and key personnel invitations [Sriram, Obrst; and Ray, Guarino, Strawn]
    • finalizing plans for the Mar-10 panel session [Sriram+Lucier]
      • in case the government is shutdown on Mar-10, Steve Ray will chair this session on behalf of Ram and Ernie
      • Ram: 3 speakers in place (RameshJain, Chris Chute, ChrisWelty); Ernie still working on invitations
    • finalizing plans for the Mar-17 panel session [Guarino]
    • deciding what we want to do with the Mar-24 virtual event slot
    • discussion: proposed Dialog Map of the Summit as a deliverable [Yim+West+Schwabe+Park+Ray]
  • program suggestions, input & discussion
  • Any other business
  • Action Items:
    • Nicola to get confirmation from John Bateman wrt Communique editorship
    • Steve to contact the Communique editing team to convene, get organized and get started
    • All: continue discuss Symposium agenda online (possible meeting next Friday Mar-4)
    • Nicola will sync-up with the EC folks and provide finalized plan for the Mar-17 session
  • Next meeting - Fri 2011.03.11 - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00pm EST / 5:00pm CET / 4:00pm GMT / 16:00 UTC (ref. world clock)
    • the rest of the organizing committee calls will be on this slot

-- session ended: 2011.02.25-11:25am PST --

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.02.11

Conference call details:

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:22:15 ; mp3 ; 9.4 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • review and adopt agenda
  • Assessment: how are we doing with respect to our Summit objectives and goals?
    • Yim: Track moderated online discourse ... ?
    • Gruninger: unfortunate we did not having enough time for discussion during the Case Studies sessions
  • Further program suggestions, input & discussion
  • Review Event Calendar - dates reserved/confirmed (so far):
    • Jan-20 - Launch Event
    • Jan-27 - Track-2: 1st panel session - "Harvesting the Business Value of Ontologies: Recent Case Examples" - co-chairs: Mills Davis & Mike Bennett
    • Feb-3 - Track-1: 1st panel session - "Strawman for the Ontology Application Framework" - co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & Michael Uschold
    • Feb-10 - Track-2: 2nd panel session
    • Feb-17 - Track-3: 1st panel session
    • Feb-24 - Track-4: 1st panel session
    • Mar-3 - (still open)*
    • Mar-10 - Track-5: 1st panel session
    • Mar-17 - Perspective from the European Commission (updated 2011.02.14)
    • Mar-24 - (still open)*
    • Mar-31 - All Track Champions - synthesis and report
    • Apr-7 - Communique draft review session
    • Apr-14 - (pre-symposium) preparation and review session
    • Apr-18 & 19 - (F2F) Workshop and Symposium
    • one of these open dates may be dedicated to an EU session with the EC-INFSO DG making a keynote presentation [Track-2 champions and Nicola Guarino to coordinate]
    • another one of these open dates may be dedicated to an IQsquared-style Debate or Mock-trial session [Track-4 champions to coordinate]
    • the last open date would probably be featured as a joint track panel session, devoted to a particular themed session - e.g. Ontology Applications in - government, biomedical domain, large companies, ... etc.
  • Any other business
  • Action items:
  • Next meeting - Fri 2011.02.25 - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00pm EST / 5:00pm CET / 4:00pm GMT / 16:00 UTC (ref. world clock)
    • the rest of the organizing committee calls will be on this time slot
    • plenary organizing meeting every other week; sub-teams are encouraged to meet internally on Fridays when we don't have a plenary call.

-- session ended: 2011.02.11-9:31am PST --

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.01.28

Conference call details:

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:16:36 ; mp3 ; 8.8 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • roll call - see above
    • intro: new member of the organizing committee - Alden Dima (NIST)
  • review and adopt agenda
  • Assessment: how are we doing with respect to our Summit objectives and goals?
    • yesterday's session was good
    • metrics ... facts and figures
    • annecdotes coming in fine
    • still need most track champions to start discussion threads on the [ontology-summit] list
    • if people are running through cases, we will have to limit panelists presentations to 10 minutes or less ... have panelists supplement their work with links and mailing list discussions
  • Review inputs and getting ready for the next Events
  • Event Calendar - dates reserved/confirmed (so far):
    • Jan-20 - Launch Event
    • Jan-27 - Track-2: 1st panel session - "Harvesting the Business Value of Ontologies: Recent Case Examples" - co-chairs: Mills Davis & Mike Bennett
    • Feb-3 - Track-1: 1st panel session - "Strawman for the Ontology Application Framework" - co-chairs: Michael Grüninger & Michael Uschold
    • Feb-10 - Track-2: 2nd panel session
    • Feb-17 - Track-3: 1st panel session
    • Feb-24 - Track-4: 1st panel session
    • Mar-3 - (still open)*
    • Mar-10 - Track-5: 1st panel session
    • Mar-17 - (still open)*
    • Mar-24 - (still open)*
    • Mar-31 - All Track Champions - synthesis and report
    • Apr-7 - Communique draft review session
    • Apr-14 - (pre-symposium) preparation and review session
    • Apr-18 & 19 - (F2F) Workshop and Symposium
    • ....*one of these open dates may be dedicated to an EU session with the EC-INFSO DG making a keynote presentation [Track-2 champions and Nicola Guarino to coordinate]
    • ....*another one of these open dates may be dedicated to an IQsquared-style Debate or Mock-trial session [Track-4 champions to coordinate]
  • Action items:
    • Steve to notify Nicola ref. change in the "open" dates, and have Nicola try to tie down the EC-INFSO presentation date
    • Peter to get Steve access to maintaining the group calendar
  • Next meeting - Fri 2011.02.11 - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00pm EST / 5:00pm CET / 4:00pm GMT / 16:00 UTC (ref. world clock)
    • Fri 2011.02.04 or 11 was not discussed during the call, but decision was subsequently made (ref. SteveRay's msg dd 2011.01.29-17:55) to only do the plenary organizing meeting every other week; hence next meeting will be on Fri 2011.02.11
    • the rest of the organizing committee calls will be on this slot

-- session ended: 2011.01.28-9:22am PST --

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Tue 2011.01.18

Conference call details:

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:28:58 ; mp3 ; 10.2 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • roll call
  • review and adopt agenda
  • review of track plans
  • Event Calendar - dates reserved/confirmed (so far):
    • Jan-20 - Launch Event
    • Jan-27 - Track-2: 1st panel session
    • Feb-3 - Track-1: 1st panel session
    • Feb-10 - Track-2: 2nd panel session
    • Feb-17 - Track-3: 1st panel session
    • Feb-24 - Track-4: 1st panel session
    • Mar-3 - Track-5: 1st panel session
    • Mar-10 - (still open)*
    • Mar-17 - (still open)*
    • Mar-24 - (still open)*
    • Mar-31 - (still open)*
    • Apr-7 - Communique draft review session
    • Apr-14 - (pre-symposium) preparation and review session
    • Apr-18 & 19 - (F2F) Workshop and Symposium
    • Launch Event: date/time is Thu 2010.01.20 ... starting at: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CET / 5:30pm GMT / 17:30 UTC (ref. worldclock)
    • ALL virtual session for the summit will be scheduled with this time window (which is 1 hour earlier than the nominal Ontolog event slot, making it slightly easier for EU folks.)
    • ....*one of these open dates may be dedicated to an EU session with the EC-INFSO DG making a keynote presentation [Track-2 champions and Nicola Guarino to coordinate]
    • ....*another one of these open dates may be dedicated to an IQsquared-style Debate or Mock-trial session [Track-4 champions to coordinate]
  • suggestions for Advisor invitations
    • George Thomas (HHS) will possibly be getting involved (on invitation by GeorgeStrawn) - the extent of his involvement will be confirmed shortly
  • Any other business
  • Next meeting - Fri 2011.01.28 - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00pm EST / 5:00pm CET / 4:00pm GMT / 16:00 UTC (ref. world clock)
    • the rest of the organizing committee calls will be on this slot

-- session ended: 2011.01.18-11:36am PST --

Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Tue 2011.01.11

Conference call details:

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:28:30 ; mp3 ; 10.2 MB)

[ chat-transcript ] (unedited)

  • Roll call - who is here; and who else is missing?
  • Opening remarks: Steve Ray / Nicola Guarino
    • see slides with first draft on proposed tracks and champions
  • Appointments: organizing committee members; track/sub-track champions; communique lead co-editors (nominations, at least) - partially discussed; will continue at the next meeting
  • Plan / Schedule the first few (a couple, at least) activities events that will be rolled out right after the Launch Event
    • Jan-27 - "Case Study: session-1"
    • Feb-3 - "Case Study: session-2"
    • Feb-10 - "Application Framework: session-1"
    • all session on Thursdays, regular Ontolog event time
  • Discussion on the Thu 2010.01.20 OntologySummit2011 Launch Event - agenda, presentations, expectations, what can be announced (especially in terms of event scheduling.) ... will need to cover this on the mailing list, and at the next call
  • Input, thoughts and discussion on candidate Advisory Committee members
  • Next meeting - (same time next Tuesday) Tue 2011.01.18 - starting 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 7:00pm CET / 6:00pm GMT / 18:00 UTC (ref. world clock)
    • will try to fix weekly (or bi-weekly time) meeting time at the next call- Peter will do a doodle poll in the mean time
    • possible alternating weekly meetings for whole-organizing-committee & track-subtrack champion meetings (separate meeting for different tracks)

-- session ended: 2011.01.11-11:35am PST --



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