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Ontolog Planning Session - Thu 2008-11-13

This is an Ontolog community events and strategic initiatives planning session - Alll members are welcome to join, especially if you want to get involved and/or help shape the future of Ontolog and its events. You don't have to be an Ontolog veteran or have participated at a previous planning session to come to this one.

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: Ontolog Community Operations Planning & Review Session - Upcoming Events and Strategic Initiatives
  • Facilitator: Kurt Conrad
  • Agenda: this session will be devoted to community planning, where "ongoing initiatives", "upcoming events", "strategic initiatives" and "action plans" will be examined and put up for discussion.
  • Date: Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST / 6:30 PM GMT / 7:30pm CEST / 18:30 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: ~1.5 hours
  • Dial-in Number:
    • from a US telephone (US): +1-218-486-3600 (domestic long distance cost will apply)
    • When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "4389979#"
    • from Europe, call:
      • Austria 0820-4000-1577
      • Belgium 070-35-9992
      • France 0826-100-280
      • Germany 01805-00-7642
      • Ireland 0818-270-037
      • Italy 0848-390-179
      • Spain 0902-886-056
      • Switzerland 0848-560-327 or 0848-414-110
      • UK 0870-738-0765
    • callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
  • 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"
    • if you plan to be logging into this shared-screen option (which the speaker may be navigating), and you are not familiar with the process, please try to call in 5 minutes before the start of the session so that we can work out the connection logistics. Help on this will generally not be available once the presentation starts.
    • people behind corporate firewalls may have difficulty accessing this. If that is the case, please download the [ slides] [ below] and running them locally. The speaker(s) will prompt you to advance the slides during the talk.
  • Discussions and Q & A:
    • (Unless the conference host has already muted everyone) Please mute your phone, by pressing "*2" on your phone keypad, when the talk is in progress. To un-mute, press "*3"
    • (when everyone is muted) If you want to speak or have questions or remarks to make, please "raise your hand (virtually)" by pressing "11" on your phone keypad. You may speak when acknowledged by the speaker or the session moderator. Test your voice and introduce yourself first before proceeding with your remarks, please.
    • You can also type in your questions or comments through the browser based chat session by:
    • or point your browser to: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/ontolog_20081113
      • instructions: once you got access to the page, click on the "settings" button, and identify yourself (by modifying the Name field). 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) ontolog_20081113@soaphub.org ... Handy for mobile devices!
  • For those who cannot join us, or who have further questions or remarks on the topic, please post them to the [ontology-forum] listserv so that everyone in the community can benefit from the discourse.
  • Please note that this session will be recorded, and the audio archive is expected to be made available as open content to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy.

Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • (please add yourself to the list or rsvp to <peter.yim@cim3.com>)

Agenda Ideas

Resources

  • an Inventory of Planned and Candidate Ontolog Events & Projects - ConferenceCall_2008_11_13/WhatsInStore
  • our last Inventory of Planned and Candidate Ontolog Events & Projects - ConferenceCall_2008_08_21/WhatsInStore
  • Our 2008-S3 Planning Session proceedings - see: ConferenceCall_2008_09_04
  • Our 2008-S2 Planning Session proceedings - see: ConferenceCall_2008_08_28
  • Our 2008-S1 Planning Session proceedings - see: ConferenceCall_2008_08_21
  • Our 2006 Planning Session(s) proceedings - see: ConferenceCall_2006_10_05
  • Our 2005 Planning Session(s) proceedings - see: ConferenceCall_2005_03_03 & OntologPlanning_2005
  • Our 2004 Planning Session proceedings - see: OntologPlanning_2004
  • Our 2003 Planning Session proceedings - see: OntologWorkshop_Nov_2003/AttendeeContribution

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

  • Kurt Conrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.
  • Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes for this meeting.
  • Roll-call of participants
  • review and adopt agenda

2) Brief reports on what transpired from ISWC-2008 & FOIS-2008 that could be relevant to us

  • Peter: on ISWC-2008
  • Michael: on FOIS-2008

3) Ongoing activities:

  • Review: ongoing projects, mini-series' and other institutional collaborations
  • Ontolog Invited Speaker series
  • joint OOR-Ontolog panel series
  • (candidate) "Ontolog Usability" project - proposed: Kurt Conrad
  • OntologySummit2009
    • candidate theme: "Ontolgy as the Next Generation of Information Standards" [ proposed: Steve Ray / Peter P. Yim / Leo Obrst / Barry Smith / Laurent Liscia (OASIS)]
    • Peter now contacting Simon Frechette of NIST to coordinate the logistics
    • soliciting support from Ontolog members who are involved with standards development organizations
    • Barry is requesting Fabian to help coordinate NCOR efforts and contributions (since he straddles between NCOR and NIST)
    • Rex: try making sure sure the OASIS Symposium and the Ontology Summit dates don't clash (as they did before)
    • we will soon be rolling out: planning meeting, launch session, virtual discourse (forum & virtal panel sessions) which culminates in a F2F workshop at NIST in Spring 2009 ... stay tuned!
    • Looking forward to Steve chairing this next Ontology Summit again!
  • other ideas, thoughts and programs

4) Follow-up Activities & Action Plan:

5) Any other business

  • we welcome the emerging (I)AOA - (International) Association for Ontology and Its Applications - the initiative for a professional society, spearheaded by Nicola Guarino, the FOIS community (been around 10 years now) and the Applied Ontology Journal folks. ... stay tuned!

6) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • we will be having on 2008_11_20 - Thursday: SemanticWiki mini-series session 2: "Semantic Wiki Technology (1): An introduction to some of the Semantic Wiki Engines and Related Technologies" - Chair: Mr. Harold Solbrig - Panelists: Dr. Sebastian Schaffert & Professor Peter Dolog (IkeWiki / KiWi), Mr. TobiasKuhn (AceWiki), Mr. Christoph Lange (SWiM), Professor Martin Hepp (myOntology), Dr. Soeren Auer & Mr. SebastianDietzold (OntoWiki) & Professor Daniel Schwabe (HDEWiki) - ConferenceCall_2008_11_20    ... see you all there next week!
  • this planning session was adjourned 11:28 am PST

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proceedings captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2008.11.13-11:30am PST

Attendees are requested to review the notes above, help clean it up, and make amendments and edits to better

reflect the proceedings of the session as they see fit (particularly where they are personally involved). =ppy

Audio archive of this 2008.11.13 Ontolog Planning Session

  • To download the audio recording of the session, click here
    • the playback of the audio files require the proper setup, and an MP3 compatible player on your computer.
  • Conference Date and Time: 13-Nov-2008 10:35am~10:28am PST
  • Duration of Recording: 0 Hour 51 Minutes
  • Recording File Size: 5.8 MB (in mp3 format)
  • Take a look, also, at the rich body of knowledge that this community has built together, over the years, by going through the archives of noteworthy past Ontolog events. (References on how to subscribe to our podcast of noteworthy past events can be found there too.)



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