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Ontology Summit 2013: Face-to-face Workshop and Symposium - Registration, Venue and Access
Event: . OntologySummit2013_Symposium (face-to-face workshop)
Venue: NIST (100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - Building 101 (Administration Building) ... (Room information to be announced)
- see: NIST location map, NIST campus map & Meeting Venue. (see below for more information about getting into the NIST campus and the meeting venue.)
- See: NIST visitor information. We opted out of hotel packages because most organizations tell us that they can get the same or cheaper rates on their own. (We were told the hotels that you are there to attend a meeting at NIST, they will give you a good rate.) The NIST visitor info page provides a list of hotels and other local assets: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/visitor/index.cfm
Date: . 2 & 3-May-2013 (Thursday & Friday) - all day
Session Details: . see OntologySummit2013_Symposium
For On-site Attendees
Due to the fact that this event is being held at a US Government Facility, on-site participants must be pre-registered beforehand to get a pass into the NIST campus. Please register at the NIST event page via the "CONFERENCE REGISTRATION" link there. Registration for on-site participation is open until Mon 22-April-2013
Anyone who has registration-related question could try e-mailing: Angela Ellis <angela.ellis@nist.gov> or call (+1)301.975.3881 (and copy <fabian.neuhaus@nist.gov>, <steve.ray@west.cmu.edu> and <peter.yim@cim3.com>)
On-site attendees should plan to arrive at the NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, US) campus by about 8:00am EDT on May-2 (day-1), to allow time for proceeding to the conference venue from the gate, registration, and getting settled in before the symposium program starts at 9:00am EDT.
- For registered attendees, you should have received (via email) a "Dashboard Gate Pass". if you are planning to drive yourself onto the NIST campus, please print that Dashboard Gate Pass and place it on the DASHBOARD OF YOUR CAR.
- When entering the NIST Main Gate, please do not get out of your vehicle. Have your Gate Pass and driver's license on your hand ready to show the NIST Police Officer. If you are a non-US citizen, also have your passport available.
- This procedure will expedite the process of getting through the NIST Main Gate. Then proceed forward. At the stop sign, turn left. Follow the main road until you get to the first intersection and turn left. The parking lot is on the immediate right. Your conference is being held in the Administration Building 101.
- If you are riding the metro, bus or shuttle service, please print that "Gate Pass" and have it with you when you arrive. Please have a photo ID ready to show the NIST Police Officer at the Main Gate. If you are a non-US citizen, also have your passport available.
- Conference registration is held in the Administration Building 101. See: NIST campus map & Meeting Venue
See: a snapshot of our [ List of Registrants for on-site attendance] (if you just registered yourself, you may not be on the list; however, if you have reasons to believe that you may not have been properly registered, please email Angela Ellis <angela.ellis@nist.gov> (and copy <fabian.neuhaus@nist.gov>, <steve.ray@west.cmu.edu> and <peter.yim@cim3.com>), so we can help follow-up on the matter.)
For Remote Attendees
To register for remote participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the Ontolog community) below, or e-mail <peter.yim@cim3.com> so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. Make sure you specify which session(s) or which day you plan to attend (ref. OntologySummit2013_Symposium) if you are only planning to join us on specific session(s) or just one of the two days and not the entire workshop. ... Thanks. (Note that there is no fee, and no registration deadline for remote attendance! ... but please do register so we can prepare enough resources to support everyone.)
Registered Remote Attendees
- Elizabeth Florescu
- Ravi Sharma
- Till Mossakowski
- Bev Corwin
- Samir Tartir
- Carmen Chui (first day: after 2pm)
- Marcela Vegetti (first day: after 3.30pm - second day: after 1.40 pm)
- Francesca Quattri
- Torsten Hahmann
- Bev Corwin
- LaVernPritchard
- Ali Hashemi (possibly, only the first day)
- Bruce Bray
- Robert Rovetto
- Rex Brooks
- Christian Hempelmann
- Megan Katsumi (only day 2)
- AstridDuqueRamos
- Jack Ring (May-3)
- Gary Gannon
- Mark Fox
- James Michaelis (JoanneLuciano) (May3rd/12pm)
- Michael Riben (As much as possible)
- Sylvia Spengler (both days)
- Bobbin Teegarden
- Clare Paul
- Mike Dean
- Jim Jacobs (As much as possible)
- Frank Olken (Friday)
- DjokoSigitSayogo (Friday - 12pm)
- James Michaelis
- Marc Halpern
- (add your name here (above); if you don't already have a namesake page on this wiki, please include your affiliation; or email <peter.yim@cim3.com> to register your remote participation ... if you are planning to attend only a part of the workshop, kindly specify which portion of the agenda we should be expecting you at.
Conference Call Details
- Date: Thursday & Friday, May 2 & 3, 2013
- Start Time: (both days) 9:00am EDT / 6:00am PDT / 3:00pm CEST / 2:00pm BST / 13:00 UTC
- World Clock ref: [ Thursday 2-MAY ] and [ Friday 3-MAY ]
- please try to dial-in about 10 minutes before the scheduled start time
- Expected Call Duration: please refer to agenda details
- Dial-in:
- Phone (US): +1 (206) 402-0100 ... (long distance cost may apply)
- ... [ backup nbr: (415) 671-4335 ]
- when prompted enter Conference ID: 141184#
- Skype: joinconference (i.e. make a skype call to the contact with skypeID="joinconference") ... (generally free-of-charge, when connecting from your computer ... ref.)
- when prompted enter Conference ID: 141184#
- Unfamiliar with how to do this on Skype? ...
- Add the contact "joinconference" to your skype contact list first. To participate in the teleconference, make a skype call to "joinconference", then open the dial pad (see platform-specific instructions below) and enter the Conference ID: 141184# when prompted.
- Can't find Skype Dial pad? ...
- for Windows Skype users: Can't find Skype Dial pad? ... it's under the "Call" dropdown menu as "Show Dial pad"
- for Linux Skype users: please note that the dial-pad is only available on v4.1 (or later; or on the earlier Skype versions 2.x,) if the dialpad button is not shown in the call window you need to press the "d" hotkey to enable it. ... (ref.)
- Phone (US): +1 (206) 402-0100 ... (long distance cost may apply)
- In-session chat-room url:
- (for day-1) http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/summit_20130502 &
- (for day-2) http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/summit_20130503
- instructions: once you got access to the page, click on the "settings" button, and identify yourself (by modifying the Name field from "anonymous" to your real name, like "JaneDoe").
- You can indicate that you want to ask a question verbally by clicking on the "hand" button, and wait for the moderator to call on you; or, type and send your question into the chat window at the bottom of the screen.
- thanks to the soaphub.org folks, one can now use a jabber/xmpp client (e.g. gtalk) to join this chatroom. Just add the room as a buddy - (in our case here) summit_20130502@soaphub.org (for day-1) & summit_20130503@soaphub.org (for day-2) ... Handy for mobile devices!
- (optional: we may or may not be featuring this support, depending on the venue) - 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"
- people behind corporate firewalls may have difficulty accessing this. If that is the case, please download the slides as described below and running them locally. The speaker(s) will prompt you to advance the slides during the talk.
- All you would need to do is to download the presentation for each speaker by clicking on the [ slides ] link associated with each agenda item
- For those who cannot join us, or who have further questions or remarks on the summit topic and content, please post them to the [ ontology-summit ] listserv so that everyone in the community can benefit from the discourse.
- Please review our Virtual Session Tips and Ground Rules - see: VirtualSpeakerSessionTips
- This session, like all other Ontolog events, is open to the public. Information relating to this session is shared on this wiki page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Symposium
- Please note that this session may be recorded, and if so, the audio/video archive is expected to be made available as open content, along with the proceedings of the call to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy.
List of Registrants OntologySummit2013_Symposium for on-site attendance
68 people have registered as of 2013.04.29-9:56am EDT (on-site registration is now closed, please register to participate remotely!)
- AdrianBaranyuk
- AllenEgonCholakian
- Amanda Vizedom
- Angela Carter
- Anthony Rhem
- Bev Corwin
- Bill Andersen
- Bob Natale
- Bob Schloss
- Brand Niemann
- Charles Romine
- Dan Carey
- David Makovoz
- Denise Bedford
- Dennis Wisnosky
- Doug Foxvog
- Fouad Ramia
- FredericDeVaulx
- Fred Hosea
- GaryBergCross
- GaryBitters
- Gary Gannon (going to attend remotely)
- George Strawn
- Gilberto Fragoso
- Graham Gal
- Hans Polzer
- James Clary
- James Warren
- JenniferHarne
- Jerry Smith
- Joanne Luciano
- Joel Bender
- John F. Sowa
- KarenGuertler
- KathleenPalcher
- KeithDeweese
- Ken Allgood
- Ken Baclawski
- Leo Obrst
- Lynne Plettenberg
- MalaRamaiah
- Mark Crawford
- Mark Luker (regrets)
- Matthew West
- Michael Barnett
- Michael Denny
- Michael Fitzmaurice
- Michael Grüninger
- Mike Bennett
- Mike Dean
- NurhamizahBintiMohdHamka
- Olivier Bodenreider
- Patrick Cassidy
- Pavithra Kenjige
- Pete Nielsen
- Peter P. Yim
- Ram D. Sriram
- Ravi Sharma
- Rod Morgan
- Sudarsan Rachuri
- Steve Ray
- Terry Longstreth
- TinLatt
- Todd Schneider
- Vinod Pavangat
- YanWu
- YaShianLiBaboud
- YenChouChou
- Frank Olken (Thursday)