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Ontology Summit 2012: Getting Organized

This is a scratch workspace for the organization, coordination and planning of OntologySummit2012.

Theme: Ontology for Big Systems

7th 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 2012 Organizing Committee Meetings

Ontology Summit 2012 8th Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2012.03.30

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
  • summit progress review
    • How are we doing so far?
    • staging and coordinating Apr-5 session
    • staging and coordinating symposium logistics
    • Communique plans
    • Symposium plans
      • panel session plans
      • demo plans
    • PR plans
    • others ...
  • Outstanding items follow-up ...
  • ... plus other stock items & suggested items
    • ... (add here)
    • AOJ submission
    • IJSE paper submission

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:37:00 ; mp3 ; 11.10 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • Urgent Outstanding Items
    • ... (none!)
  • Main Discussion Items
  • progress & performance review: How are we doing so far?
    • Michael: yesterday's session was very productive
      • Todd: good contributions received (from every track), and good consensus yesterday
      • Michael: some open issues probably need to addressed properly
        • [action] Michael to send out a message about symposium and process details
        • Michael & Peter to work up a list of those issues, and encourage people to discuss them online before the communique closes
          • issues: e.g. ... ontology-vs-metamodel; expressivity; patterns; ...
        • Amanda Vizedom: We are discussing how to deal with (known and potential) issues outstanding -- things that people some people think are solved and others think are open, or people strongly disagree about -- that some people are advocating for discussion at symposium and/or inclusion in communique. ... A partial triage for these issues is to sort those that require some resolution for communique, if only mention of open issue and some suggestion of follow-up, from those that are truly out of scope and should be set aside for symposium/communique purposes.
      • we really want these issues properly discussed *before* the symposium
      • Steve / Michael: we will use a "parking lot" for issues that we want to put aside so they don't derail the workshop/symposium discussion
  • staging and coordinating Apr-5 session-13
    • Topic: Communique Review Workshop-II and pre-symposium prep session
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_04_05
    • Co-chairs: Michael Grüninger / Todd Schneider / Ali Hashemi
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda: time for symposium program coordination and logistics; and a second communique workshop
    • Goals: answer any question people have for the symposium; review the first draft communique
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
      • inviting all symposium panelists to join us at this call? - we can answer questions they may have about their panel session, and let them get a feel for where we are with synthesizing what has transpired already (especially for those who have not been actively participating in prior virtual sessions.)
  • Communique plans
    • next draft - t/b published by Apr-4 so everyone can review it before going into Apr-5 workshop
    • End of "change request" period - Apr-6
      • we said "change request" just to avoid term "comment"! Use "change request," and keep explicit that if someone requests a change, they must provide a solution - i.e., what should be there after the change.
        • Leo / Amanda: degree of severity ("editorial", "technical") of a "change request" may help too
        • Ali: note that google-doc does not support line numbers; people should just highlight the place where they are requesting comments ... the google-doc setting now allows only Todd and Ali to edit, but all (with link) to comment (even anonymously) ... we want people to identify themselves after they put in a comment
    • final draft - release date: Apr-9
    • AOJ submission - Todd and Ali to make submission no later than end-May
      • co-authors of that article will include lead editors, co-editors and the 4 chairs
  • Survey status and plans - Amanda Vizedom / Mike Bennett / Simon Spero
    • Amanda: survey is still not out, but ETA:
      • (expected) Release date: Mon 2012.05.02
      • (expected) First (interim) closing date: Sun 2012.05.08
      • will want to run the survey past the symposium dates
      • presentation of interim results at the symposium will be part of the XT-A1 presentation
  • plans/issues regarding Public Relations
    • make attempts to bring the press (and bloggers) to the Symposium
      • the NCO & NIST probably has some contacts ... Ernie will see what they can do; Steve to help coordinate that with Ram too; ...
      • journalists coming to symposium
      • potential bloggers, ...
    • media kit status/plan - OntologySummit2012_MediaKit
  • others ...
    • Advisor invitations
    • ideas on celebrating the 10th anniversary of ONTOLOG!?
      • would love to do something during the F2F; Peter will make a post to [ontolog-forum] to solicit ideas
    • IJSE paper submission - ref. http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2012-03/msg00079.html
      • would be nice if Henson & Matthew would be willing to take this on
    • ISWC (workshop proposal) submission of survey results ... [Amanda]
  • Review Master Calendar:
    • plenary sessions - Launch, session-02 thru session-12 - done!
    • 2012_04_05 - Thursday: Communique Review Workshop-II and pre-symposium prep session
    • Symposium - Thu & Fri, April 12 & 13, 2012 (confirmed) - Portrait Room, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
    • post-mortem (virtual) session - Thu 2012.04.26 (confirmed)
  • Recap action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • draft communique due: Apr-4
    • survey release date: Apr-2
    • Michael to be sending messages out (a) on the symposium process, (b) get some of the debatable "issues" discussed within having them derail the symposium agenda, (c) coordinate the panelists, (d) coordinating the demo presenters
    • Do we want/need one more organizing committee meeting? - probably not necessary; we will handle via email
    • what else?
      • Michael & Ernie to work out when/how to position WendyWigen's "Big Data" presentation during the symposium

-- session ended: 8:43 am PDT

Ontology Summit 2012 7th Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2012.03.16

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
  • summit progress review - How are we doing so far?
  • staging and coordinating upcoming events
  • Inventory & status review: planned summit deliverables
    • Communique plans
    • Symposium plans
    • others ...
  • Outstanding items follow-up ...
  • ... plus other stock items & suggested items
    • ... (add here)

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:01:08 ; mp3 ; 7.00 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • Urgent Outstanding Items
    • coordinating track champions' contribution to the Communique [attn: Todd & Ali]
      • Todd & Ali will request input for the outline and scope today (3/16), send out assignments to all track champions by Monday (3/19) and ask for write-ups from everyone by the end of next week
      • aim toward having a draft communique (say, 80% communique) by the Mar-29 (s-12) session
  • summit progress review - How are we doing so far?
    • consensus: we're doing fine ... rich session content especially commendable (thanks to all session chairs!)
  • Main Discussion Items
  • staging and coordinating upcoming events:
  • Preparation for the Mar-22 panel session-11
    • Topic: Track-1&2 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_22
    • Chair(s): Matthew West & Henson Graves
    • Title / Abstract: Big Systems: The ontology of System Components, and System Modelling Language Requirements
      • [MW/2012.03.14] It looks like we have two topics:
        • 1. Discussion on system components probably between Nicola and I, but Chris Partridge might also be a candidate
        • 2. A discussion on the requirements for engineering modelling languages, and the shortcomings of what is available.
    • Panel Briefs from: Nicola Guarino (confirmed), Chris Partridge (confirmed), David Leal (confirmed), Matthew West (confirmed), ...
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals: to do a synthesis of what has transpired, rather than developing new territories
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions: Henson: will ping John F. Sowa again
    • Matthew West & Henson Graves will be working on preparing the session and provide input some time soon ... prospect is good that something interesting would come forth
  • Preparation for the Mar-29 panel session-12
    • Topic: communique/deliverable pre-finalization session
      • communique co-lead editors to provide ASAP ... with other pertinent "deliverables/champions" as applicable
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_29
    • Chair(s): Todd Schneider & Ali Hashemi
    • Title / Abstract: Initial Communique Review Workshop
    • Panelists: (probably a coordinated discussion rather the panel briefs)
    • draft agenda: some time alloted to pre-finalization of other deliverables, which include: (a) survey; (b) bibliography; (c) ontology-driven summit content demo; ... also, (d) review of state of responses to the symposium demo segment - possibilities, wisnosky, hashemi-bao-li, vizedom, socop-oor, neuhaus(?),
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Preparation for the Apr-5 panel session-13
    • Topic: Communique Review Workshop-II and pre-symposium prep session
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_04_05
    • Chair(s): Todd Schneider & Ali Hashemi
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda: mostly a second communique workshop; carving out some time for symposium logistics
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • discussion: collecting further input via online survey/questionnaire [ AmandaVizedom / Mike Bennett / SimonSpero ]
    • an open source tool "Lime Survey", as requested by Amanda, has been made available (courtesy CIM3) to support this effort
    • Amanda Vizedom, Mike Bennett & Simon Spero will refactor the X-Track-A1 questions (which did not get addressed at the Feb-23 (session-07) will be made available to the broader community soon
  • plans/issues regarding the recommended reading list [ AmandaVizedom ]
    • Nicola Guarino: suggest exploiting this resource and possible collaboration with the IAOA Education Committee people
      • Fabian Neuhaus: sounds like a good idea; will talk to Antony Galton (fellow co-chair of IAOA Education Committee) and see how that committee could leverage this
  • plans/issues regarding the communique
    • will continue on email
    • will leverage this to help drive the mailing list discussion as well
  • plans/issues regarding Public Relations
    • make attempts to bring the press (and bloggers) to the Symposium
      • the NCO & NIST probably has some contacts ... Ernie will see what they can do; Steve to help coordinate that with Ram too; ...
  • Stock Discussion Items
  • Any other business
    • Steve / Peter: possibility to provide some travel subsidies
      • solicitation to be out ... grant based on (i) contribution, (ii) not local to DC, (iii) not employed by an institution
    • need to contact Franz about their earlier offer to sponsor - possibility ask ask them to provide breakfast/coffee [Steve / Peter]
  • Review Master Calendar:
    • plenary sessions - Launch, session-02 thru session-10 - done!
    • focused track panel sessions:
    • 2012_03_29 - Thursday: communique/deliverable pre-finalization session
    • 2012_04_05 - Thursday: pre-symposium prep session
    • Symposium - Thu & Fri, April 12 & 13, 2012 (confirmed) - Portrait Room, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
  • Recap action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Slides for Thu Mar-22 session-11 due end-of-day Tue Mar-20 (similarly Thu Mar-29 session-12 slides due Tue Mar-27)
    • Next organizing committee meeting (n.08): Friday 2012.03.30 ~1.5 Hr meeting - starting 7:00am PDT / 10:00am EDT / 4:00pm CEST / 14:00 UTC - world clock
    • what else?

-- session ended: 8:09 am PDT

Ontology Summit 2012 6th Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2012.03.02

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • summit progress review - How are we doing so far?
    • staging and coordinating upcoming events
    • Outstanding items follow-up ...
      • review proposals for "invitations to the Advisory Committee"
      • speaker slots at the Symposium - helping people work up their travel plans
    • discussion: collecting further input via online survey/questionnaire
    • ... (add here)

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:34:12 ; mp3 ; 10.78 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • summit progress review - How are we doing so far?
    • comments from General Chairs -
    • comments on specific tracks -
    • comments from organizing committee members -
      • Steve / Leo: suggests we need to switch gears towards the synthesis and preparation of the communique
  • Main Discussion Items
  • staging and coordinating upcoming events:
  • Preparation for the Mar-15 panel session-10
    • Topic: Track-3 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_15
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists: Mario Paolucci from FuturICT (confirmed by NicolaGuarino), ...
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
    • Ernie Lucier did respond to say he is traveling and will provide an update on Mar-6
  • Preparation for the Mar-22 panel session-11
    • Topic: Track-1&2 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_22
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists: ...
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
    • Matthew West & Henson Graves will be working on preparing the session and provide input some time soon ... prospect is good that something interesting would come forth
  • Preparation for the Mar-29 panel session-12
    • Topic: communique/deliverable pre-finalization session
      • communique co-lead editors to provide ASAP ... with other pertinent "deliverables/champions" as applicable
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_29
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • discussion: collecting further input via online survey/questionnaire [ AmandaVizedom / Mike Bennett / SimonSpero ]
    • an open source tool "Lime Survey", as requested by Amanda, has been made available (courtesy CIM3) to support this effort
    • Amanda Vizedom, Mike Bennett & Simon Spero will refactor the X-Track-A1 questions (which did not get addressed at the Feb-23 (session-07) will be made available to the broader community soon
  • plans/issues regarding the symposium
    • Tentative Symposium schedule: first day consists of presentations of Track summaries and initial discussion of the Communique. Second day will consist of a panel discussion on Challenges and Opportunities from the three main groups -- system engineers, ontologists, and stakeholders. We will also allocate some time for demonstrations.
    • Michael: will do a "demo" call ... (may have logistic issues with firewall)
    • disposition on video recording or streaming video
    • we'll run two screens - one for slides, the other for "chat-window" and "tweets"
  • plans/issues regarding the recommended reading list [ AmandaVizedom ]
    • Nicola Guarino: suggest exploiting this resource and possible collaboration with the IAOA Education Committee people
      • Fabian Neuhaus: sounds like a good idea; will talk to Antony Galton (fellow co-chair of IAOA Education Committee) and see how that committee could leverage this
  • plans/issues regarding the communique
    • will continue on email
    • will leverage this to help drive the mailing list discussion as well
  • plans/issues regarding Public Relations
  • Stock Discussion Items
  • Review Master Calendar:
    • plenary sessions - Launch, session-02, session-03, session-04 - done!
    • focused track panel sessions:
    • 2012_03_29 - Thursday: communique/deliverable pre-finalization session
    • 2012_04_05 - Thursday: pre-symposium meeting
    • Symposium - Thu & Fri, April 12 & 13, 2012 (confirmed) - Portrait Room, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
  • Recap action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Slides for Thu Mar-8 session-09 due end-of-day Tue Mar-6 (similarly Thu Mar-15 session-10 slides due Tue Mar-13)
    • some details for session-09 (Track-4) still missing, and those for session-10 (Track-3) past due; session-11 (Track-1&2) please start posting, so everyone can have a chance to review and make suggestions
    • Next organizing committee meeting (n.07): Friday 2012.03.16 ~1.5 Hr meeting - starting 7:00am PST / 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET / 15:00 UTC - world clock
    • what else?

-- session ended: 8:36am PST

Ontology Summit 2012 5th Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2012.02.17

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • summit progress review - How are we doing so far? ... nudging mailing list discussion to focus on summit goals
    • review proposals for "invitations to the Advisory Committee"
    • staging and coordinating upcoming events
    • speaker slots at the Symposium - helping people work up their travel plans
    • decision on video/webcast during symposium
    • Discussion - feedback from community: mailing list discussion too philosophical!? Somewhat off-focus!
    • ... (add here)

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:33:49 ; mp3 ; 10.74 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • Main Discussion Items
  • summit progress review - How are we doing so far?
    • Comments from General Chairs:
    • Postmortem on sessions -03, -04, -05 & -06 -- champions and all
  • staging sessions -07 -08, -09 & -10 -- Harmonizing objectives and agenda, and exchanging ideas on candidate panelists
    • need to start sharing session plans 3 weeks in advance
    • deadline to have session plans (at least 75%) ready 2 weeks before the session date
  • Preparation for the Feb-23 panel session-07
    • Topic: X-Track-A1 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_02_23
    • Chair(s): Amanda Vizedom & Mike Bennett
    • Title: Implementing Ontology Quality Measures in Big Systems

Engineering

  • Preparation for the Mar-1 panel session-08
    • Topic: X-Track-A2 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_01
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions: Peter, Steve and all to help, if needed
  • Preparation for the Mar-8 panel session-09
    • Topic: Track-4 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_08
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Preparation for the Mar-15 panel session-10
    • Topic: Track-3 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_15
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions: Peter, Steve and all to help, if needed
      • Nicola Guarino: may be able to get someone from the FuturICT project to speak
  • plans/issues regarding the communique
    • will continue on email
    • will leverage this to help drive the mailing list discussion as well
  • plans/issues regarding the symposium
    • confirmed Apr-12&13 ... NIST Portrait Room
    • decision on video/webcast during symposium
      • video - available (y), cost (?), decision (??) -- pending; Steve to follow-up
      • live webcast - available (y), cost (?), decision (??) -- pending; Steve to follow-up
    • recalling Jeff Abbott help with the video back in 2010
  • plans/issues regarding Public Relations
    • Ali Hashemi will be posting something next week onto the list
  • plans/issues regarding the recommended reading list
    • Nicola: suggest exploiting this resource and possible collaboration with the IAOA Education Committee people
  • Stock Discussion Items
  • Review Master Calendar:
    • plenary sessions - Launch, session-02, session-03, session-04 - done!
    • focused track panel sessions:
    • 2012_03_29 - Thursday: communique/deliverable prep sessions
    • 2012_04_05 - Thursday: pre-symposium prep meeting
    • Symposium - Thu & Fri, April 12 & 13, 2012 (confirmed) - Portrait Room, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
  • Recap action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Slides for Thu Feb-23 session-07 due end-of-day Tue Feb-21 (similarly Thu Mar-1 session-08 slides due Tue Feb-28)
    • details for session-08 (X-Track-A2) now past due, and those for session-09 & -10 (Track-4 & 3) please start posting, so everyone can have a chance to review and make suggestions
    • Next organizing committee meeting (n.06): Friday 2012.03.02 ~1.5 Hr meeting - starting 7:00am PST / 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET / 15:00 UTC - world clock
    • what else?

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Ontology Summit 2012 4th Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2012.02.03

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • summit progress review - How are we doing so far?
    • staging sessions -05, -06, -07 & -08 -- Harmonizing objectives and agenda, and exchanging ideas on candidate panelists
    • plans/issues regarding the communique
    • plans/issues regarding the symposium
    • review proposals for "invitations to the Advisory Committee"
    • plans/issues regarding Public Relations
    • plans/issues regarding the recommended reading list

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:52:00 ; mp3 ; 12.82 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • Urgent Outstanding Items
    • X-Track-A2:
      • Track Label: Ontology for federation and integration of systems - confirmed
      • Co-champions: Cory Casanave; AnatolyLevenchuk(?), DavidLeal(?), IanBailey(?) - Matthew West will help Cory with the invitation, need to tie down within the next few days
  • Opening (chair), roll call, adopt agenda, quick self-intros for new members
  • Main Discussion Items
  • summit progress review - How are we doing so far?
    • General Chairs: Leo: pleased with what's transpired so far ... good; try not to get entangled and side-tracked; ...
    • Track 1&2 co-champions: Henson: track-1&2 has determined some emerging threads; posted an expanded version of those threads to help focus the discussion into buckets; need success criteria;
    • All: Michael: lots of energy, a bit lack-of-focus;... (see chat transcript)
    • What should we be doing differently going forward?
  • staging sessions -05, -06, -07 & -08 -- Harmonizing objectives and agenda, and exchanging ideas on candidate panelists
    • need to start sharing session plans 3 weeks in advance
    • deadline to have session plans (at least 75%) ready 2 weeks before the session date
  • Preparation for the Feb-09 panel session-05
    • Topic: Track-3 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_02_09
    • Chair(s): Ernie Lucier & Mary Brady (right?)
    • Title / Abstract: Meeting Big Data Challenges through Ontology
      • The first session is to describe the problem and identify large _unstructured_ data sets that would benefit from ontological technology especially those still expanding.
    • Panelists: Barry Smith (NCOR), Jeanne Holm (Data.gov), DougSchmidt (CMU-SEI), Mike Personick (Systap), ...
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Preparation for the Feb-16 panel session-06
    • Topic: Track-4 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_02_16
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Preparation for the Feb-23 panel session-07
    • Topic: X-Track-A1 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_02_23
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Preparation for the Mar-1 panel session-08
    • Topic: X-Track-A2 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_03_01
    • Chair(s):
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • plans/issues regarding the communique
    • will continue on email
  • plans/issues regarding the symposium
    • confirmed Apr-12&13 ... NIST Portrait Room
    • still waiting for answer on whether we might get video recording or streaming video
      • discussed whether video and streaming video is really what we need
  • review proposals for "invitations to the Advisory Committee"
    • defer discussion to next meeting
  • plans/issues regarding Public Relations
    • ... ref. discussion above ref video; we might consider making a video clip on the Summit for PR purposes
  • plans/issues regarding the recommended reading list
  • Stock Discussion Items
  • Review Master Calendar:
    • plenary sessions - Launch, session-02, session-03, session-04 - done!
    • focused track panel sessions:
    • 2012_03_29 - Thursday: communique/deliverable prep sessions
    • 2012_04_05 - Thursday: pre-symposium prep meeting
    • Symposium - Thu & Fri, April 12 & 13, 2012 (confirmed) - Portrait Room, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
  • Recap action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Slides for Thu Feb-9 session-05 due end-of-day Tue Feb-7 (similarly Thu Feb-16 session-06 slides due Tue Feb-14)
    • details for session-06 (Track-4) now past due, and those for session-07 & -08 (X-Track-A1 & A2) please start posting, so everyone can have a chance to review and make suggestions
    • Next organizing committee meeting (n.05): Friday 2012.02.17 ~1.5 Hr meeting - starting 7:00am PST / 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET / 15:00 UTC - world clock
    • what else?

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Ontology Summit 2012 3rd Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2012.01.20

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • lock-in Symposium date
    • finalize organizing committee members and roles - another co-champ for X-Track-A1, others cluster around tracks/sub-teams, drop those who cannot commit to the time/effort needed to do a good job here
    • plan out master virtual session calendar
    • tie down details for session-03 & -04 - need info on: chair, panelists, session-title, session-abstract, talk-titles, talk-abstracts (would be great), panelists-bios, ...
    • stage session-05 & -06 - develop next level of details for Tracks 3 & 4 - which domains will we focus in, who can we engage that have authority over those subject matters?
    • organize PR effort
    • put effort into advisory committee & co-sponsorship - engage them
    • AOB

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:42:43 ; mp3 ; 11.76 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda, quick self-intros for new members
    • incentive: if we do well at this call, we can probably transact mostly via the [ontology-summit-org] list asynchronously, and go on to an alternate week 1.0~1.5 hour organizing call schedule just to sync up. ... That said, tracks are encouraged to continue using this slot to confer internally.
  • Recap & assessment on the Ontology Summit 2012 "What's in scope" session yesterday - ConferenceCall_2012_01_19
    • Nicola: still want to engage people from EU a bit more
  • Re-confirmation of the tracks and champions:
    • appointing another co-champion to X-Track-A1 to replace Joanne Luciano
    • who else is still in the committee? ... please cluster around each of the above track/sub-team
    • Ref earlier discussion and our basic rules of engagement, Peter will drop everyone else (i.e. those who are still subscribed to the [ontology-summit-org] list. but are not championing or support any specific track activity) off the organizing committee list to spare them of the inbox overflow
      • we will look forward to engaging those folks on the level of "content contribution" rather than engaging them in help organize/facilitate the roll out of the summit program.
    • Ken Allgood volunteered to support AliHashemi's efforts in the website
    • Eric Chan still involved in a personal capacity for now, pending clearance from his company to possibly get involved in a more official capacity
    • Nancy Wiegand is probably working on something that would fit into Track-4 ... will let her explain this herself
  • Tying down the Jan-26 panel session
    • Topic: Track-2 champions to provide now
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_01_26
    • Chair: Matthew West
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists: candidates - Jack Ring, Cory Casanave,
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
    • slides due cob Tue Jan-24
  • Preparation for the Feb-02 panel session
    • Topic: Track-1 champions to provide now
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_02_02
    • Chair: Henson Graves
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
    • slides due cob Tue Jan-31
  • Track champions will get session details ready two week in advance (to Peter and the [ontology-summit-org] list) - the need info are: chair, panelists (confirmed, invited), session-title, session-abstract, talk-titles, talk-abstracts (would be great), panelists-bios, ...
  • Discussion: staging session-05 & -06 - develop next level of details for Tracks 3 & 4 - which domains will we focus in, who can we engage that have authority over those subject matters?
  • Preparation for the Feb-09 panel session
    • Topic: Track-3 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_02_09
    • Co-chairs:
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Preparation for the Feb-16 panel session
    • Topic: Track-4 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_02_16
    • Co-chairs:
    • Title / Abstract:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Discussion: organize PR effort
  • do we still plan to do the "website"? ... this is a huge effort in and of itself (and somewhat distinct from PR)
    • would we want this year's content under a psmw (purple semantic media wiki) workspace
    • Ali will mull over this and come back ASAP (by, say Jan-24)
    • Ken Allgood volunteered to support Ali in the website effort if he moves forward
  • put effort into advisory committee & co-sponsorship - engage them
    • how can we do it better this year?
    • Track champions are encouraged to look over the Advisors list for candidate Track champions and speakers
    • Leo suggests we might consider having a champion to nurture contributions from the Advisory Committee
    • Leo will post a message to [ontology-summit-org] & [ontology-summit-advisors] list to start a conversation on how we can improve our engagement with the Advisors
  • Use of Zotero ( http://zotero.org )
    • good idea ... use (for now) as an external platform (similar to our using surveymonkey or relatime-delphi in previous years) ... (for now) we will consolidate the output back to the wiki
    • Amanda will make a post to the [ontology-summit] list and champion that effort
  • Recap action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Slides for Thu Jan-26 session-03 due end-of-day Tue Jan-24
    • details for session-04 (Track-1+2) and session-05 (Track-3) also due this weekend
    • Next organizing committee meeting (n.04): Friday 2012.02.03 - starting 7:00am PST / 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET / 15:00 UTC - world clock - hopefully 1~1.5 Hour; then maybe alternate Friday full organizing committee meetings and track/sub-track meetings
    • what else?

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Ontology Summit 2012 2nd Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2012.01.13

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • review session proposals and organizing committee members' inputs
    • identifying tracks, sub-tracks, etc.
    • appointing all the responsible positions - champions & editors, etc.
    • broadly define the session schedule and topics, and tie down details for the next 2~3 sessions, at least.
    • ...

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 1:12:13 ; mp3 ; 15.14 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda, quick self-intros for new members
  • Recap & assessment on the Ontology Summit 2012 Launch Event yesterday - ConferenceCall_2012_01_12
    • quick review and adoption of Program Structure and Vision - in particular, slide #4, #5 & #7
    • since the organizing work is very intense, and calls for timely communication, synchronization and responsiveness - it is decided that if a organizing committee member misses two meetings without sending in his/her regrets and staying in communications, we shall assume that person has dropped off from this committee
  • Quick review of session proposals and organizing committee members' inputs
    • on OntologySummit2012/Suggestions page
    • recent track and session proposal posts - http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2012-01/threads.html
    • input from the Launch event chat input
    • quick synthesis, clustering and enumeration of suggested/volunteered content/topics that various organizing committee members are willing to champion - lists first crafted by Matthew West and Amanda Vizedom below and synthesized by Ali Hashemi ... and more
      • Federated Systems
        • Integration of interfaces, services and processes
        • Integrating languages as well as systems
        • Information federation and sharing
        • role of ontology repositories and a federated OpenOntologyRepository (OOR)
      • Ontology of systems
        • systems vs systems of systems - what are they?
        • modular architecture
        • ontology architecture
        • What engineers don't know about ontology
        • what ontologists don't know about systems.
      • Systems Engineering
        • MW: I'm a bit concerned that I have not heard anyone really wanting to do anything with this.
      • Domain applications
        • Engineering design applications integration
        • MW: I've not mentioned it so far but ISO TC184/SC4 Industrial Data and ISO 15926 in particular have been doing work in this area.
        • ISO 10303-214 as a large complex system (a standard of some 6000 pages).
        • Enterprise Architecture( or under Ontology of Systems?)
        • Smart Cities
        • Smart electrical grid
        • Bioinformatics and Medical informatics
        • Electronic Health Records
        • "big data"
        • cloud computing
      • Evaluating ontologies for use in large complex systems
        • includes validating
        • quality metrics
        • fitness for purpose
      • Use cases: Examples of ontologies in/for/of big systems (collection and structured representation for analysis)
      • Effects of, and challenges for, usability of ontologies in systems engineering processes and in engineered systems.
      • Grand Challenge: Possibly in form of composite, complex use case with ontology involvement at multiple levels (part of the challenge is therefore making ontologies work for each / all of these levels).
  • discussion: aligning the proposed program segments under the 4 (3?) Tracks
    • it is recognized that the above content/topics will be form the "pick list" from which various tracks will essentially be drawing their discussion/session topics from.
  • Identify tracks, sub-tracks, foci, key sessions, ...
    • identify communities with whom we might do a collaborative project with as part of the summit activities
    • anyone else we should really engage in the organizing committee?
  • Appoint all the responsible positions - champions & editors, etc.
    • Track / sub-track champions
    • Aspect Co-champions:
    • Co-Lead Editors - Todd Schneider, AliHashemi(?)
      • All other champions as Co-editors
    • Publicity Champion (better name?) - AliHashemi(?)
    • ... more?
  • Review: Master Calendar:
    • Symposium date
    • plenary sessions
    • focused track panel sessions
    • communique/deliverable prep sessions
    • pre-symposium prep meeting
    • Symposium
  • Preparation for the Jan-19 "Ontology for Big Systems: What's In Scope?" panel session
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_01_19
    • Co-chairs: Leo Obrst & Nicola Guarino
    • Panelists: All champions
    • draft agenda: Intro to champions; Overview and Input Solicitations from the Tracks & Aspects - each champion has 5 minutes - i.e. a track with 3 co-champions will have 15 minutes, and a track with 2 co-champions will have 10 minutes; each track should consolidate all their co-champions slides (probably 1 or 2 each) into a single slide deck.
    • Goals: communicate to the summit participants what's in scope, introduce the champions and solicit contribution. Get the open discourse going.
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Preparation for the Jan-26 panel session
    • Topic: Track-1 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_01_26
    • Co-chairs:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Preparation for the Feb-02 panel session
    • Topic: Track-2 champions to provide ASAP
    • session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_02_02
    • Co-chairs:
    • Panelists:
    • draft agenda:
    • Goals:
    • What needs to be covered:
    • invitations / tasks / actions:
  • Recap action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Slides for Thu Jan-19 session due end-of-day Tue Jan-17
    • Next meeting: (candidate) Friday 2012.01.20 - starting 7:00am PST / 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET / 15:00 UTC - world clock - hopefully 1~1.5 Hour; then maybe alternate Friday full organizing committee meetings and track/sub-track meetings
    • what else?

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Ontology Summit 2012 First Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2012.01.06

Conference call details:

... (if you were there, and was missed on the roll call, please add yourself back in.)

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • ...

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 2:15:04 ; mp3 ; 15.46 MB)

[ chat-transcript ]

  • Identify Tracks, Champions, Lead Editors, and other pertinent leads and champions
    • identify communities with whom we might do a collaborative project with as part of the summit activities
    • anyone else we should really engage in the organizing committee?
    • ref. Ideas on How to Frame the Discourse
  • Identify Deliverables for each of the track chairs (as well as overall summit)
  • prep for the Jan-12 Launch Event - review agenda and tasks
    • developing session page at: ConferenceCall_2012_01_12
    • draft agenda:
      • Intro - General Co-chairs
      • Opening - 5 min. each from the leads of each of the 6 co-organizers
      • Introducing/describing Ontology Summit 2012 as we are planning it - General Co-chairs
        • (specifically: define as much as we can, the weekly virtual events and the Symposium date)
      • Tracks and what are we expecting - 5 min. from each of the Track co-champions
      • Q&A and open discussion
      • Wrap-up, Announcements, What's next - General Co-chairs
    • how shall we best get the word out?
  • Master Calendar:
    • plenary sessions
    • focused track panel sessions
    • communique/deliverable prep sessions
    • pre-symposium prep meeting
    • Symposium - Thu & Fri 2012.04.12&13 NIST-AML (Mon & Tue 2012.04.23&24 will be backup dates)
  • thoughts/prep on Jan-19 & 26 and Feb-2 virtual sessions (so that we can start preparing, inviting panelists for these first three virtual sessions) ...
    • Thu Jan-19: (candidate:) Define "System" and what do we mean by "Ontology for X Systems"
    • Thu Jan-26: (candidate:) Define "Big" what are we addressing in this "Ontology for Big Systems" summit
    • Thu Feb-2: (candidate:) Survey of "Big Systems" application domains amenable to ontology use
  • Action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Slides for Thu Jan-12 Launch Event due end-of-day Tue Jan-10
    • Next meeting: (candidate) Friday 2012.01.13 - starting 7:00am PST / 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET / 15:00 UTC - world clock - hopefully 1~1.5 Hour; then maybe alternate Friday full organizing committee meetings and track/sub-track meetings
    • what else?

Ontology Summit 2012 Organizing Committee: basics, logistics and some ground rules of engagement

  • we are here to get things organized; to frame, coordinate and discuss how we can facilitate the discourse, with an aim towards getting the best outcome from the Summit season; optimizing that against the goals and objectives laid out for tthis year's summit theme - i.e. Ontology Summit 2012: "Ontology for Big Systems"
    • make distinction between your "organizer" role and your "content expert" role, both are important - at the ontology-summit-org committee, you are wearing the "organizer" hat; please segregate that from your "content expert" hat (which most of us will also also wear, say, when it comes to rolling out the content that you are championing.)
    • no (read: try to absolutely minimize) "content discussions" at the organizing committee meetings, please. We are here to do the meta-discussion on how to frame, coordinate and facilitate the discourse, and discuss "how" to produce an optimal outcome; the content discussions should be done via posting to the [ontology-summit] list, dedicated wiki "content pages" and at the Thursday virtual panel sessions.
  • try to provide a quick turn-around on email exchanges. A 4-hour turn-around window would be a good target. A 1 working day (8-Hr) or 24-elapse time response limit is appreciated from everyone (if you don't have a full response, at least provide an acknowledgment and an ETA for the full answer.)
    • past that limit, people might just choose to call or forge ahead if the response is still missing after that
    • try to provide alternate means of contact (e.g. mobile phone number) to people you are collaborating closely with
  • for continuity, please try to be at all sessions (or at least your fellow co-champion is there, if you have a pair/team partner)
  • since things are so interrelated, please always discuss/transact on the mailing list, so that everyone is kept posted
    • use proper subject line, and prefix in square brackets to help discern topics
  • to allow us to freely speak our minds (without getting those utterances caught by search engine crawlers and the like) the [ontology-summit-org] message archives and shared-file workspace are password protected. You should have been informed of the role-based access credentials already if you are an organizing committee member. In case you missed them, please contact <peter.yim [at] cim3.com>. ... by the way, please do not share those credentials with others.
  • Being able to have read and write access to the mailing list messages are crucial. In case you have trouble with that, please contact <peter.yim [at] cim3.com> asap.
    • if you are new on the list, it might help if you check you spam folders first, because the distributed messages may inadvertently be caught by your spam filter.
    • please provide <peter.yim [at] cim3.com> with aliases (if you might post from them); multiple subscription addresses too.
  • note that the meetings will be recorded and contributions are subject to our default IPR Policy



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