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Ontology Summit 2014: Getting Organized

This is a scratch workspace for the organization, coordination and planning of OntologySummit2014.

Theme: Big Data and Semantic Web Meet Applied Ontology

9th 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 2014 Organizing Committee Meetings

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.11) - Fri 2014.04.18

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • finalize OntologySummit2014_Symposium agenda and other logistics
      • sync-up with all who will be presenting at the Symposium
    • finalize OntologySummit2014_Communique logistics
    • preparation for virtual session-15 of Thu 2014.04.24 (the last one before the Symposium)
    • stock status reports reviews
    • ... (add yours)
    • Any other business

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio archives of the meeting ] . ( 1:09:49 ; mp3 ; 11.99 MB )

[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
  • preparation for virtual session-15 of Thu 2014.04.24 (the last one before the Symposium)
    • Agenda for session-15
    • ALL symposium prep work (title/abstracts/slides) should be in place (or in sight)
  • Any other business
  • Decision, Consensus & Action items
  • next meeting, wrap-up
    • this is likely our last organizing committee meeting before the Symposium. We will have an open (community) session on Thu 2014.04.24 right before the Symposium for "Final Symposium preparation and logistics," would be great if all organizing committee members will be able to join us at that session.
    • we have a Summit post-mortem community session scheduled for Thu 2014.05.15 ... we can decide whether we need or want another organizing committee between the Symposium and that postmortem session either on Apr-24 or during the Symposium.
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 9:16 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.04.18 11.31am PDT

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.10) - Fri 2014.04.04

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • process for drafting of the Communique and the (Apr-10) session-13: "Communique Draft Review" preparation
    • Symposium details and Status Review
    • Ram D. Sriram: presenting Ontology Summit 2014 results at the The Second ASE International Conference on Big Data Science and Computing (BigDataScience - Stanford, CA, USA, May 27 - May 31, 2014)
      • Paper Publication opportunity: note that for the above Conference, the top 2% accepted papers will be submitted to the ASE Science Journal. The rest of accepted papers will be submitted to the ASE Open Scientific Digital Library.
    • stock items: progress and status review
    • ... (add yours)
    • Any other business

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio archives of the meeting ] . ( 0:58:56 ; mp3 ; 10.12 MB )

[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
  • (Outreach and Publication Opportunity) RamSriram: presenting Ontology Summit 2014 results at the The Second ASE International Conference on Big Data Science and Computing (BigDataScience - Stanford, CA, USA, May 27 - May 31, 2014)
    • Paper Publication opportunity: note that for the above Conference, the top 2% accepted papers will be submitted to the ASE Science Journal. The rest of accepted papers will be submitted to the ASE Open Scientific Digital Library.
    • [consensus/action] Ram D. Sriram will work on this and represent us to speak about Ontology Summit 2014 results at this Conference
  • Any other business
  • Decision, Consensus & Action items
    • [action-Hackathon-Leads] [8:22] Michael Grüninger: We should invite each Hackathon project leader to submit a few brief comments/observations on how the results of their project impacts the themes of the Summit in general and the content of the Communique in particular
      • [8:26] Amanda Vizedom: Michael [8:22] I would suggest not just *impacts*, but relates to or addresses. That is, some of the projects are directed specifically at one or more of the major themes and specific, emergent issues from the session discussions. This is something that may be obvious internally within project discussions, but not yet expressed so as to be clear to others.
      • [8:32] Peter P. Yim: +1 with Amanda's point ... two different deliverables from Hackathon Project Leads, hopefully - (i) nuggets that will impact the Communique (ref. [8:22] MichaelGruninger), and (ii) a more extensive documentation and report (ref. [8:09] [8:11] AmandaVizedom)
    • [action-RamSriram] [8:36] [consensus] Ram will represents us and present at the The Second ASE International Conference on Big Data Science and Computing
    • [action-TimFinin-RamSriram] [8:53] Tim and Ram will work offline, and aim at publishing the agenda next week
    • [action-TimFinin-RamSriram-AmandaVizedom] [8:55] Tim and Ram will be on point to decide on the group dinner ... Amanda will help make suggestions
    • [action-Track-ABCDE-Champions] [9:01] Michael Grüninger: Asking the Track Champions to invite speakers from their sessions to upload any ontologies that were discussed/presented during the session (if possible)
    • [action-MichaelGruninger ]will email Mark Fox to upload his ontology to the ontohub repository - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014/GettingOrganized#nid4BLO
    • [action-AmandaVizedom] [9:01] After catching up with Ram D. Sriram, Amanda Vizedom will make an outreach blast looking specifically for Symposium sponsors.
    • [action-LeoObrst] Leo will write to the Ontology Summit Advisors and invite them to join us at the next couple of weeks' Communique review and discussion sessions
  • next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.11 - Friday 2014.04.18 - 1.5-Hrs - starting 11:00am EDT / 5:00pm CEST / 4:00pm BST / 12:00 noon ART / 11:00pm HKT / 15:00 UTC
      • key agenda item will be to ...
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 9:02 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.04.07 9:03pm PDT

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.09) - Fri 2014.03.21

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • Hackathon details and preparation
    • preparation for the Synthesis-II session and the Communique
    • Symposium details
    • sponsor details
    • stock items: progress and status review
    • ... (more!)
    • ... (add yours)
    • Any other business

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio archives of the meeting ] . ( 1:07:11 ; mp3 ; 7.69 MB )

[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
  • preparation for the Synthesis-II session (s12) and the Communique (s13 & s14)
    • Thu 2014.04.03 - session-12 - Synthesis-II - Technical Tracks and Hackathon - plan & agenda as follows:
      • Co-chairs: Leo Obrst & Michael Grüninger
      • Briefings: Tracks: A, B, C, D, E (Hackathon) - 10 min. each to present track synthesis, and, in particular, their write-up that will be contributed to the composition of the Communique
        • all contribution to Communique are due by Tue 2014.04.01 ... as well as presentation slides, of course
      • Q&A and Open discussion, with an aim to build consensus on key learnings, recommendations, positions we will adopt as a community, and the contribution we expect this Summit will make
    • Thu 2014.04.10 - session-13 - Communique Review
    • Thu 2014.04.17 - session-14 - Communique Finalization
  • Any other business
  • Decision, Consensus & Action items
    • [action-TimFinin] [8:14] Tim Finin will contact Mark Musen, R_V_Guha, and invite them to speak at the Symposium
    • [action-AmandaVizedom-LeoObrst-ALL] [8:21] will get the word out about Symposium registration on social media, other community lists, etc.
    • [action-Hackathon-Project-Leads] [8:30] project leads to make announcements of their hackathon project details and logistics latest by Mon Mar-24 ... [8:36] project leads should also take care of announcing their hackathon to relevant communities and lists
    • [action-AnatolyLevenchuk] [8:33] Anatoly Levenchuk will make a master hackathon event calendar announcement on Tue Mar-25
    • [action-LeoObrst] [8:39] Leo Obrst will help contact Till Mossakowski or Oliver Kutz (since no one from this project were attending the meeting today) ... urgent actions: see above and Anatoly's earlier messages (esp. the one dated 2014.03.06) - see: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2014-03/msg00037.html
    • [action-AnatolyLevenchuk-KenBaclawski-AnneThessen] [8:42] Anatoly Levenchuk will have a 5 min slot at the Mar-27 session for Hackathon announcement/review (1 or 2 slides)
    • [action-PeterYim] [9:13] Peter P. Yim to post list of Advisors to the Ontology Summit 2014 page
    • [action-SimonSpero-AmandaVizedom] [9:16] Amanda Vizedom will help let Simon Spero know that we miss him at this (and the Monday psmw-dev) meeting, and are looking for his update
    • [action-AmandaVizedom] [n07-9:10] Amanda to continue work on sponsor invitations
  • next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.10 - Friday 2014.04.04 - 1.5-Hrs - 8:00am PDT / 11:00am EDT / 12:00 noon ART / 4:00pm BST / 5:00pm CEST / 11:00pm HKT / 1500 UTC
      • ***please pay special attention to the start-time in your time zone (both N.America and Europe are on Daylight Saving Time now; but some regions still stay on Standard Time ***
      • key agenda item will be to ...
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 9:15 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.03.21 11:35am PDT

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.08) - Fri 2014.03.07

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • virtual session planning - coordinate speaker invitation, etc.
    • Symposium planning - registration, speaker/panelist candidates, logistics, group dinner on 4/28, ...
    • stock items and outstanding issues
    • ... (add yours)
    • Any other business

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio archives of the meeting ] . ( 0:59:40 ; mp3 ; 10.25 MB )

[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
  • Symposium planning - registration, speaker/panelist candidates, logistics, group dinner on 4/28, ...
  • Any other business - none!
  • Decision, Consensus & Action items
    • [action-MichaelGruninger] [8:23] Michael Grüninger will be on point to deliver the next iteration of the communique table-of-content;
    • [action-ToddSchneider] [8:23] Todd Schneider will be on point to give a finer grain timeline to coordinate deliverables from all the tracks, and the overall communique process
    • [action-LeoObrst] [8:50] Leo Obrst will send candidate speaker/contact for Yarcdata to Ram & Tim
    • [action-AmandaVizedom] [8:47] Amanda Vizedom will get the word out about Symposium registration on social media
    • [action-AmandaVizedom] [n07-9:10] Amanda to continue work on sponsor invitations
    • [action-Hackathon-Project-Leads] [8:52] Anatoly Levenchuk: all Hackathon project leads to start planning on their project roll out (on the Mar-29 hackathon-day) and start populating details on their respective project pages - ref. links from: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014_Hackathon
    • [action-LeoObrst] [n07-9:12] Leo to to work on and send out advisor invitations asap
  • next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.09 - Friday 2014.03.21 - 1.5-Hrs - 11:00am EDT / 8:00am PDT / 4:00pm CET / 12:00noon ART / 11:00pm HKT / 1500 GMT/UTC ***please pay special attention to the start-time in your time zone***
      • key agenda item will be to ...
    • we will transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ... we will be subscribing all organizing committee members later today; if you don't get the confirmation of that in 4 hours (after this meeting), check your spam folder first, and then contact <peter.yim [at] cim3.com> if necessary

session adjourned: 9:06 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.03.07 9:38am PST

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.07) - Fri 2014.02.21

Conference call details:

  • Date / Start time: Fri 2014.02.21 - starting 11:00am EST / 8:00am PST / 5:00pm CET / 1:00pm ART / 0:00[+1] HKT / 1600 GMT/UTC
  • Dial-in:
    • Phone (US): +1 (206) 402-0100 ... (long distance cost may apply)
    • Skype: joinconference ... (generally free-of-charge, when connecting from your computer)
    • when prompted enter PIN: 141184#
  • Chat-room: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/ontology-summit-org
  • 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"
  • Expecting: all who are on the [ontology-summit-org] list; and other invitees of the organizing committee.
  • Attended:
  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • coordinate speaker invitation - enumerate suggested candidates; assign to session; assign person to contact (if specific champions don't know the candidate, and someone else does)
    • review status of Hackathon preparation, and make another drive for projects
    • Symposium planning
    • stock items and outstanding issues
    • ... (add yours)
    • Any other business

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio archives of the meeting ] . ( 1:22:00 ; mp3 ; 9.39 MB )

[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
  • symposium plans
    • program
    • speakers-panelists invitations
    • AV and logistics support
    • symposium team (offline) meeting - next Fri 2014.02.28 - 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST - ok?
    • registration details
    • ...
  • Any other business
  • Decision, Consensus & Action items
    • [action-DanBrickley-AnatolyLevenchuk] Feb-27 session-07 details due by end-of-day Sunday 2014.02.23
    • [action-SimonSpero] [8:59] Simon Spero to report on any suggested hackathons arising out Triangle Open Data Day this weekend
    • [action-RamSriram] [9:02] Ram will arrange an offline meeting for the symposium team next Fri 2014.02.28 - 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST
    • [action-MichaelGruninger-LeoObrst] [9:08] Michael & Leo to publish a near-final Communique outline soon
    • [action-ALL-session-chairs] All session plan and details are due 2 weeks before session date, please!
    • [action-AmandaVizedom] [9:10] Amanda to work on and send out sponsor invitations asap
    • [action-LeoObrst] [9:12] Leo to to work on and send out advisor invitations asap
  • next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.08 - Friday 2014.03.07 - 1.5-Hrs - starting 8:00am PDT / 11:00am EDT / 1:00pm ART / 4:00pm CET / 11:00pm HKT / 15:00 GMT/UTC
      • key agenda item will be to tie down our symposium program and plan
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 9:29 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.02.21 11:22am PST

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.06) - Fri 2014.02.07

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • progress review - virtual sessions, online discourse, other forms of participation/contribution so far
    • upcoming session preparation/status review
      • mitigating overlaps and gaps - fostering coherence
        • coordinating speaker invitations
    • status review:
      • summary report from each track and team (~1 min. ea)
      • hackathon plans and support
      • action plans for sponsors, advisors relations, website, outreach & sponsor relations
      • symposium plans and speakers-panelists invitations
    • Any other business
    • ... (add yours)

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio archives of the meeting ] . ( 1:24:01 ; mp3 ; 9.62 MB )

[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
  • progress review - virtual sessions, online discourse, other forms of participation/contribution so far
    • Michael: excellent effort from track champions in identifying questions
      • All: a lot of energy this year ... but, a bit more noise
    • Michael / Leo: track champions should try to remind/direct some input to the wiki, as that could produce higher quality input
    • Michael: time management is good, and we are getting a full half-hour for discussion
    • Peter: the numbers on participation is very encouraging ... we might "sell out" our symposium "seats" quickly
    • note: expected behavior during interactions and discourse - ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid3LHV
  • Any other business
  • Decision, Consensus & Action items
    • [action-ALL-Content-Track-Champions] [8:16] track champions to try to improve on the signal-to-noise on the mailing list, and direct input to the wiki to get higher quality input
    • [action-MichaelGruninger] [8:18] Leo and I will send out a note that draws attention to the Community Input pages
    • [action-MarcelaVegetti] [8:51] to add a hackathon page and link it from the main page of the public facing website
    • [action-DanBrickley] [8:56] Dan Brickley will advise his available dates to speak (at one of the sessions) ... (hope Mar-27 for the Track-D-II session) would work for you, Dan) ... also please post other speaker suggestions too, both from Google and from other people you interact with that is relevant to the Summit goals
    • [action-AnatolyLevenchuk-DanBrickley] [8:50/8:51] Track-E will take 5 minutes at the next (Feb-13) Track D session to make a short "presentation/call" to jumpstart the hackathons
    • [consensus-ALL] [8:49] Swapping dates for the Synthesis-I and Hackathon session
      • Thu 2014.02.20 - session-06 - Synthesis-I; development of Communique table-of-content
      • Thu 2014.02.27 - session-07 - Track E: Hackathon Launch
    • [consensus-ALL] [9:26] we will keep the North American time schedule for the virtual sessions ... there will be 3 weeks where we (esp. our EU friends) need to be doubly careful about time schedule
  • next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.07 - Friday 2014.02.21 - 1.5-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
      • key agenda item will be to coordinate speakers and make a drive on hackathon projects
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 9:30 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.02.07 6:58pm PST

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.05) - Fri 2014.01.24

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • progress review - session-02, online discourse, other forms of participation/contribution from Summit participants so far
    • finalize track/team champions
    • review preparation on session-03(B), -04(C), -05(D) & -06(E-Hackathon)
    • tie down action plans for sponsors, advisors, website, public relations and advisor relations
    • ... (add yours)
    • Any other business

Agenda & Proceedings

[ Audio archives of the meeting ] . ( 1:38:02 ; mp3 ; 11.22 MB )

[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Progress review - how is the summit coming along, so far?
    • postmortem: session-02 -
      • see solictation for help on chat-transcript below. (in Any other business)
    • online discourse
      • [action] each track should appoint one of co-champions to facilitate the forum discussion and wiki inputs
      • [action] if the discussion is off-focus, one can lift that to move the conversation to [ontolog-forum] ... try to circumvent noise and disrespectful demeanors
    • other forms of participation/contribution from Summit participants
  • Progress report from all other Tracks, Teams & endeavors (as needed)
    • Amanda: Oliver Kutz soliciting help with some debugging work
  • Any Other Business
    • Peter P. Yim: (while I, and hopefully, other on Team-M will still want to do it for everyone) please help make the editing of session chat-transcripts a little easier by: Champions, please help set an example for others
      • please use WikiWord names
      • always provide context
      • citing people's full WikiWord names *and* the timestamp (in PST) of his/her post that you are responding to
      • use fully qualified url's (include http:// ) without symbols (like punctuations or parentheses, etc. right next to it)
      • session chairs should review (afterwards and possibly make one more edit iteration - in the interest of timeliness, we will not hold up the first release for this round of edits, though)
    • Michael Grüninger: IAOA is offering a prize for the Hackathon again this year
  • next meeting & wrap-up
    • Meeting n.06 - Friday 2014.02.07 - 1.5-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
      • key agenda item will be to totally tie down any other loose ends and focus effort to roll out a coherent summit program
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 9:39 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.01.24 00:31 [+1]am PST

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.04) - Fri 2014.01.17

Conference call details:

  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • postmortem on the Jan-16 Launch Event
    • review/finalize track/team champions, mission statements, work plans and deliverables
    • finalize Master Event Calendar
      • share session planning template
      • review preparation for sessions-01, thru session-07
    • tie down work plans for Hackathon and Community Resources
    • tie down action plans for sponsors, advisors, website, public relations and advisor relations
    • ... (add yours)
    • Any other business

Agenda & Proceedings

{{{ [ Audio archives of the meeting ] . ( 1:59:50 ; mp3 ; 13.72 MB ) }}}

[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
    • welcome to new organizing committee members and candidates members
  • 2014_01_16 Launch Event Postmortem - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2014_01_16
    • the good:
      • quality and timely preparation work from all teams ... Kudos!
      • record crowd (over 100 attendees+registrants; with over 80 on the call, over 70 on the chat most of the time)
      • the session was very coherent ... everyone's hard work shows
      • got us off to a great start ... Best Ever!
    • the bad:
      • missed the "open Q&A and discussion" item all together
      • 5-minute time allotment not properly observed by all
      • unable to finish on time
    • to-do: ... (nothing in particular)
      • Amanda: we are still not sounding "cross field" enough (still sounds like we are running from "applied ontology")
      • more balance in folks from: Big Data, Semantic Web, Applied Ontology
  • Finalize Master Event Calendar:
    • Fri 2013.11.01 - First Organizers Meeting [done]
    • Thu 2013.12.05 - Pre-launch Community Brainstorm [done]
    • Fri 2013.12.06 - First Organizing Committee Meeting [done]
    • Thu 2014.01.16 - Launch Event [done]
    • Thu 2014.01.23 - session-02 - Track A: I
    • Thu 2014.01.30 - session-03 - Track B: I
    • Thu 2014.02.06 - session-04 - Track C: I
    • Thu 2014.02.13 - session-05 - Track D: I
    • Thu 2014.02.20 - session-06 - Synthesis-I; Communique discussion-I
    • Thu 2014.02.27 - session-07 - Track E: Hackathon Launch
    • Thu 2014.03.06 - session-08 - Track A: II
    • Thu 2014.03.13 - session-09 - Track B: II
    • Thu 2014.03.20 - session-10 - Track C: II
    • Thu 2014.03.27 - session-11 - Track D: II
    • Sat 2014.03.29 - Round-the-clock Hackathon
    • Thu 2014.04.03 - session-12 - Synthesis-II - Technical Tracks and Hackathon
    • Thu 2014.04.10 - session-13 - Communique Review
    • Thu 2014.04.17 - session-14 - Communique Finalization
    • Thu 2014.04.24 - session-15 - final symposium prep and logistics
    • Mon & Tue 2014.04.28 & 29 - Symposium
    • Thu 2014.05.15 - Postmortem
    • Published calendar is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014#nid426O
  • Review and finalize session plans for session-01 thru session-07 ... for each session:
    • Session# / date:
    • Co-chairs:
    • Session Title (Topic):
    • Session obejctives, goals, abstract
    • candidate speakers/panelists
      • panelists: titles/abstracts/bios
    • Remarks:
  • Tie down work plans for Hackathon and Community Resources
    • announcements during session-02 or -03?
  • tie down action plans for sponsors, advisors, website, public relations and advisor relations
  • Any other business
  • Decision and Action items
    • [action-Gruninger] get another co-champion for Track-B ... Michael Grüninger will try to ping Olivier Bodenreider
    • [action-Sriram] Track D need another co-champion ... Ram D. Sriram will look into possibility of recruiting someone from NIST
    • [action-Baclawski] Ken Baclawski will invite Anne Thessen to co-champion Track D
    • [action-Obrst] Leo will ping Frank Olken to (more actively) participate in the organizing committee.
    • [action-Brickley-Levenchuk-Baclawski] Track E to make sure Ken Baclawski is involved in the planning as well (since Ken is already a track co-champion, he will have more of an advisory role on this team)
    • [action-ALL-Track-Champions] all tracks should post one opening email to the [ontology-summit] list, just to start a conversation ... write something that would provoke responses ... needed by end-of-day Mon 1/20
    • [action-Vizedom-Kutz] Track G will make two opening posts to the summit discussion list, one each for the library and the repository, respectively. The post for each will re-articulate what should be going in to the collection and what people are encouraged to do & when. We should also include some further info about how to go about it and/or get help.
    • [action-??] suggestion to ping Francesca Quattri if she would help with Team-R on social network presence
    • [confirmed] Simon Spero joining Team-R as a co-champion to work on the PSMW ... He will work offline with Peter P. Yim, Ken Baclawski and the CIM3-NEU PSMW-DEV team on the details
    • [confirmed] Christi Kapp joining Team-M as a co-champion ... Peter and Christine will work offline on the details
    • [action-ALL-Track-champions] All track champions to immediately starting using the Track planning worksheet (google-doc) at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqDJq_V-ifUQdFlRbWxlOHVuY1ZQblV0amNwZ091b3c&usp=sharing
    • [confirmed] Master Calendar adopted [10:05] - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014/GettingOrganized#nid43RU
    • [action] all champions should review master calendar, bring bring up schedule swap proposals by end of day Mon Jan-20, past that the scheduled session dates will be locked so invitations can go out.
  • next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.05 - Friday 2014.01.24 - 1.5-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
      • key agenda item will be to totally tie down organization structure and co-champions, and establish a master calendar
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 10:09 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.01.17 10:51am PST

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.03) - Fri 2014.01.10

Conference call details:

  • Date / Start time: Fri 2014.01.10 - starting 11:00am EST / 8:00am PST / 5:00pm CET / 0:00[+1] HKT / 1600 GMT/UTC
  • Dial-in:
    • Phone (US): +1 (206) 402-0100 ... (long distance cost may apply)
    • Skype: joinconference ... (generally free-of-charge, when connecting from your computer)
    • when prompted enter PIN: 141184#
  • Chat-room: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/ontology-summit-org
  • 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"
  • Expecting: all who are on the [ontology-summit-org] list; and other invitees of the organizing committee. Observers welcome.
    • if you want to get involved, and is volunteering to help (and have not had a chance to do so at earlier sessions,) please email the general co-chairs: <gruninger-at-mie.utoronto.ca>, <lobrst-at-mitre.org> with a copy to <peter.yim-at-cim3.com> ASAP, as the organizing committee is being formed now! While we welcome observers at this first call,there will be no observers on this committee or future meetings (observers are welcome to follow our progress from the notes on this wiki), volunteers for this organizing committee are expected to be making fairly serious commitments in terms of time and effort, while the Summit is in session (Jan~Apr, 2014.)
  • Attended: Leo Obrst (co-chair), Michael Grüninger (co-chair), Amanda Vizedom, Anatoly Levenchuk, Andrea Westerinen, Christoph Lange, Dan Brickley, Francesca Quattri, Krzysztof Janowicz, Matthew West, Mike Bennett, Pascal Hitzler, Peter P. Yim (scribe), Ram D. Sriram, ToddSchneider.
  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • finalize appointment of organizing committee members and champions
    • review Track and Team Mission Statements and Work Plans
    • confirm Master Event Calendar
    • review preparation for sessions-01, -02 & -03
    • ...
    • Any other business
    • Other items to be discussed:
      • I still suggest that the General Co-chairs be responsible for Advisor engagement, as the former is responsible for the overall discourse (content, outcome, quality, etc.) and the latter is uniquely qualified to inform and provide support/guidance to that. --PeterYim/2014.01.06
      • determine whether "website construction" should be under an independent team, or put under "Track F: Communique and Publications" or "Team P: Public Relations" .... this depends on who is championing these, I suppose. --PeterYim/2014.01.06

Agenda & Proceedings

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[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
  • Review and finalize session plans for -01, -02 & -03
    • Thu 2014.01.16 - Launch Event - ConferenceCall_2014_01_16
      • ref. last summit's Launch Event program - ConferenceCall_2013_01_17
    • Thu 2014.01.23 - session-02 - Track A: ___ ([co-champion action]: need title, abstract, session plan, speaker name/talk-title/bio-sketch,by Jan-16, talk-abstracts to follow before end-of-week)
    • Thu 2014.01.30 - session-03 - Track B: ___ ([co-champion action]: need title, abstract, session plan by Jan-16)
  • Preview plans for session-04, -05 & -06
    • Thu 2014.02.06 - session-04 - Track C: ___ ([co-champion action]: need title, abstract, session plan by Jan-23)
    • Thu 2014.02.13 - session-05 - Track D: ___ ([co-champion action]: need title, abstract, session plan by Jan-30)
    • Thu 2014.02.20 - session-06 - Track E: Hackathon Launch ([co-champion action]: need work plan by Jan-23)
    • Thu 2014.02.27 - session-07 - Synthesis-I; development of Communique table-of-content
  • Invitations for Co-sponsors & Advisors
  • Action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.04 - Friday 2014.01.17 or 24 - 2-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
      • key agenda item will be to totally tie down organization structure and co-champions, and establish a master calendar
    • Meeting n.05 - Friday 2014.01.31 or 2014.02.07 - 2-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 10:08 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2014.01.10-10:08 am PST

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

Ontology Summit 2014 Organizing Committee conference call (n.02) - Fri 2013.12.13

Conference call details:

  • Date / Start time: Fri 2013.12.13 - starting 11:00am EST / 8:00am PST / 5:00pm CET / 0:00[+1] HKT / 1600 GMT/UTC
  • Dial-in:
    • Phone (US): +1 (206) 402-0100 ... (long distance cost may apply)
    • Skype: joinconference ... (generally free-of-charge, when connecting from your computer)
    • when prompted enter PIN: 141184#
  • Chat-room: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/ontology-summit-org
  • 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"
  • Add your Agenda Ideas and anything you want discussed at this meeting below:
    • confirm key members of the organizing committee
    • adopt summit & tracks: titles, objectives/goals, scope, write-up, ...
    • confirm co-champions and roles
      • mitigate availability issues (as required)
    • establish Master Event Calendar (and major milestones)
    • tie down plans for: (a) Thu 2014.01.16 Launch Event; (b) Thu 2014.01.23 virtual panel session-01; (c) Thu 2014.01.30 virtual panel session-02.
    • ... add yours!

Agenda & Proceedings

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  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda
  • Summit title, objectives/goals, scope, writeup - review and adopt
    • Michael: still working on the writeup ... will post by Monday Dec-16
    • Summit title adopted: "Big Data and Semantic Web Meets Applied Ontology"
      • "Society" was suggested during the Dec-5 community session, but not taken up
    • symposium co-chair: status update ... still pending
  • Tracks & Activities / Confirm co-champions
    • where do we stand on invitees to candidate co-champions ... ?
    • Track champions roles - scope out the track, organize panel session; invite top experts as panelists, moderate panel discussion; moderate online discussion (mailing-list & wiki); synthesize panelists and community input; draft section in communique; ...
    • Track: Titles, Scope, Co-champions
      • Track A: Common Reusable Semantic Content
      • Track B: Making use of Ontologies: Tools, Services, and Techniques
      • Track C: Overcoming Ontology Engineering Bottlenecks
      • Track D: Tackling the Variety Problem in Big Data
        • Co-champions: Ken Baclawski, PeterFox? (proposed: KrzysztofJanowicz), MarkGahegan? (proposed: KrzysztofJanowicz)
      • Track E: Hackathon
      • Track F: Data Collection, Community Library, Surveys, Ontology Repository, ...
        • Co-champions: AmandaVizedom?, OliverKutz? (proposed: PeterYim),
      • Team-P: Communique & Publication
      • Team-R: Public Relations ... Matthew West: how about "Public, Sponsor & Advisor Relations ... including Website development"'
        • Co-champions: SteveRay? (proposed: MatthewWest), ... Matthew West will help on the side, ... still need nominations for the PR and website roles
      • Team-M: Program management, operations, logistics
        • Co-champions: Peter P. Yim, ... need nominations
          • [action] Peter to come up with a task list for roles in this team; especially on how the tasks can be divided up
    • follow-up actions:
      • [All] contact your nominees and confirm to the mailing list
      • [All] Track champions to write-up their track mission statements, and post to mailing list, and then to the wiki (Peter to create two wiki pages for each track - one for community input
  • Invitations for Co-sponsors & Advisors ... discussion postponed!
  • Session Plans
    • Thu 2014_01_16 Launch Event - Agenda:
      • Co-chairs Opening
      • Organizers Remarks
      • Track Co-champions Brief on track scope and goals
      • Open Discussion
      • Calls for ...
      • Wrap-up; follow-up actions, ...
    • Thu 2014_01_23 Panel session-01 - Track A session-1
    • Thu 2014_01_30 Panel session-02 - Track B session-1
  • Master Event Calendar (obsolete version - see working version here)
    • Fri 2013.11.01 - First Organizers Meeting
    • Thu 2013.12.05 - Pre-launch Community Brainstorm
    • Fri 2013.12.06 - First Organizing Committee Meeting
    • Thu 2014.01.16 - Launch Event
    • Thu 2014.01.23 - session-02 - Track A: ___
    • Thu 2014.01.30 - session-03 - Track B: ___
    • Thu 2014.02.06 - session-04 - Track C: ___
    • Thu 2014.02.13 - session-05 - Track D: ___
    • Thu 2014.02.20 - session-06 - Track E: Hackathon Launch
    • Thu 2014.02.27 - session-07 - Synthesis-I; development of Communique table-of-content
    • Thu 2014.03.06 - session-08 - Track _: ___
    • Thu 2014.03.13 - session-09 - Track _: ___
    • Thu 2014.03.20 - session-10 - Track _: ___
    • Thu 2014.03.27 - session-11 - Track _: ___
    • Thu 2014.04.03 - session-12 - Synthesis-II
    • Thu 2014.04.10 - session-13 - Communique Review
    • Thu 2014.04.17 - session-14 - Communique Finalization
    • Thu 2014.04.24 - session-15 - Pre-symposium prep session
    • Mon & Tue 2014.04.28 & 29 - Symposium
    • Thu 2014.05.15 - Postmortem
  • Action items
    • Track champions to post their track mission statements
  • next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.03 - Friday 2014.01.10 - 2-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 0:00[+1] HKT / 16:00 GMT/UTC
    • Meeting n.04 - Friday 2014.01.17 - 2-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 0:00[+1] HKT / 16:00 GMT/UTC
      • key agenda item will be to totally tie down Jan-16 Launch Event details, and plans for first virtual two panel sessions (Jan-23 & 30)
    • we will continue to transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ...

session adjourned: 9:54 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2013.12.13 am PST

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

Ontology Summit 2014 First Organizing Committee conference call (n.01) - Fri 2013.12.06

Conference call details:

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

Agenda & Proceedings

[ slides ]

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[ chat transcript (edited) ] ... (raw)

  • Opening, roll call, adopt agenda, quick self-intros.
    • team members intro (1~2 min. ea.): name; affiliation; affinity/expertise in (ordered) semantic web, linked data, big data, formal ontology, applied ontology, software engineering, systems engineering, ... unique/relevant skillset you can bring to this organizational effort
    • (capture on chat or email to <peter.yim[at]cim3.com>) contact info: email, IM, mobile
    • adopt: basics, logistics and some ground rules of engagement - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014/GettingOrganized#nid42AA
  • Identify / Confirming General Co-Chairs, Symposium Co-Chairs, Communique Co-lead Editors (10~15 min.)
    • General Co-Chairs: Michael Grüninger & Leo Obrst (confirmed)
    • Symposium Co-Chairs: Ram D. Sriram & ___ (nominate candidates; decision later)
    • Communique Co-lead Editors: ___ & ___ (nominate candidates; decision later)
  • Confirming Tracks structure and Track Titles / Scope: - see: slides
    • Track A: Common Reusable Semantic Content ... candidate titles - Leo: "harvesting existing semantic resources" ... Andrea: "Creating and evolving ontologies from available semantics"
      • Identifying ontology patterns in Semantic Web problems
      • What ontologies are required by the Semantic Web applications?
      • If these ontologies are not available in any current ontology repository, how can we engage the applied ontology community to develop them?
      • Can we apply existing analysis techniques to ontologies that are being widely used within the Semantic Web community?
    • Track B: Making use of Ontologies: Tools, Services, and Techniques (was: Reasoning Tools and Techniques)
      • How can reasoning tools being developed within the Semantic Web community be applied to the ontologies that are being developed by the applied ontology community?
      • Knowledge acquisition tools.
    • Track C: Overcoming Ontology Engineering Bottlenecks
      • Scaling up the design of reusable and exible ontologies
      • Lowering the hurdles for domain experts to use ontologies to publish, retrieve, and integrate data.
    • Track D: Tackling the Variety Problem in Big Data
      • Problems that require the integration of data from many sources.
      • Techniques that (semi-) automatically map a given data set into a semantic representation using a given ontology.
      • (added) semantic techniques for data analytics
      • (Amanda: I see this as including these issues multi-lingualism/cross-lingualism/localization; what Jim Hendler calls #broaddata, and issues of provenance specification and tracking.)
  • Identify / Confirming Track Champions, Lead Editors, and other pertinent leads and champions
    • Track A: Mike Bennett, Andrea Westerinen, GaryBergCross
    • Track B: Christoph Lange, ... also, GiancarloGuizzardi? (proposed: Krzysztof ... will contact), HaroldBoley? (proposed: Leo), BenjaminGrosof? (proposed: Leo), AlanRector? (proposed: Peter ... confirmed), IanEmmons? (proposed: Todd ... no response yet), TomHeath? (proposed: Krzysztof ... no response yet),
    • Track C: Krzysztof Janowicz, Pascal Hitzler,
    • Track D: TimFinin?, ... also Ken Baclawski (proposed: Peter), PeterFox (proposed: Krzysztof), Mark Fox (proposed: Michael ... declined), MarkGahegan (proposed: Krzysztof), Soeren Auer (proposed: Christoph ... declined), Malcolm Chisholm (proposed: MikeBennett) ... [additional candidates: MatthewWest?, ]
    • Hackathon (Hackathon-Clinic): Dan Brickley,
    • Survey(s): AmandaVizedom? (ref. Amanda's chat-comments [7:37]), KenBaclawski? (proposed: Peter),
    • Website / SemanticWiki:
    • Public Relations: AmandaVizedom? (not in the PR framework - ref. Amanda's chat-comments [7:37])
    • Communique: Todd Schneider, Francesca Quattri, ... Peter: I have other thoughts
    • anyone else we should really engage!?
      • Balance: Semantic Web / Big Data / Ontology; Research-Industry or Theory-Applied or Lab-Web; US / EU / International;
  • Identify Deliverables for each of the track chairs (as well as overall summit)
  • preview (mainly for the next meeting): prep for the Jan-16 Launch Event - review agenda and tasks
    • developing session page at: ConferenceCall_2014_01_16
    • draft agenda:
      • Intro - General Co-chairs
      • Opening - 5 min. each from the leads of each of the 6 co-organizers
      • Introducing/describing Ontology Summit 2014 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?
  • preview (mainly for the next meeting): thoughts/prep on Jan-23 and Jan-30 virtual sessions (so that we can start preparing, inviting panelists for these first three virtual sessions) ...
    • Thu Jan-23 session - Track A - co-chairs: ___ & ___ (will start prep)
    • Thu Jan-30 session - Track B - co-chairs: ___ & ___ (will start prep)
    • Thu Feb-6: (candidate:) ... identify topic
    • Thu Feb-13: (candidate:) ... identify topic
    • Thu Feb-20: (candidate:) ... identify topic
  • Action items, next meeting, wrap-up
    • Meeting n.02 - Friday 2013.12.13 - 2-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
      • key agenda item will be to totally tie down organization structure and co-champions, and establish a master calendar
    • Meeting n.03 - Friday 2014.01.10 - 2-Hrs - starting 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
    • we will transact via the [ontology-summit-org] mailing list in the mean time ... we will be subscribing all organizing committee members later today; if you don't get the confirmation of that in 4 hours (after this meeting), check your spam folder first, and then contact <peter.yim [at] cim3.com> if necessary

session adjourned: 8:00am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2013.12.06 am PST

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

Ontology Summit 2014 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 this year's summit theme - i.e. Ontology Summit 2014: "Big Data and Semantic Web Meet Applied Ontology"
    • make distinction between your "organizer" role and your "content expert" role, both are important - but at the ontology-summit-org organizing 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 (not the [ontology-summit-org] list), dedicated wiki "content pages" and at the Thursday virtual panel sessions.
  • we need to be a very agile team ... as such, 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 and as a courtesy to your teammate(s), at least provide an acknowledgment and an ETA for the full answer, or a release for the others to go ahead.)
    • past that limit, people might just choose to call or forge ahead if the response is still missing
    • 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)
    • all organizing committee members are committed to not missing more than 2 organizing committee meetings or community sessions; excessive unexcused absence may be cause for (or indicative of) withdrawal from the committee.
  • since things are so interrelated, please always discuss/transact on the mailing list, so that everyone is kept posted, and in sync
    • 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@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@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@cim3.com> with aliases (if you might post from that address); multiple subscription addresses too, if necessary.
  • note that the meetings will be recorded and contributions are subject to our nominal IPR Policy



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