OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 10-Mar-2008

• This is the 4th conference call of the Ontology Summit 2008 organizing committee. The session is expected to be a ~1 Hour conference call.

• URL for this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_10

Conference Call Details

• Date: Thursday, March 10, 2008
• Start Time: 12:30am PDT / 3:30pm EDT / 19:30 UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: ~ 1.0 Hour
• Dial-in Number:
  • from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
    • Conference ID: "5823120#"
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120

• 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"

• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only)

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Leo Obrst
  • Barry Smith
  • Michelle Raymond
  • Steve Ray

• Expecting:
  • Mark Musen

• Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

• review status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
• status review and action plans for the online discourse
• status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
• preparation status for the 3 upcoming panel sessions - 3/27, 4/3 & 410
• status review on how we are getting the word out

... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

• Michelle Raymond took the chair and welcomed everyone

• Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting

• review and adopt agenda

• note that we have a hard stop at 1:30pm PDT / 4:30pm EDT as the Content Committee will be having their weekly call then. Which mean we have to finish this call in 1 hour or less.

2. Roll Call:

• see above

3. Status / Discussion of developing issues:

• Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call)
  • submit last year's communique to Applied Ontologies Journal [attn: Steve] - Steve contacted Michael Grüninger who will be working on it
    • question for Mark: when is the next AOJ issue out; do you have a deadline for the submission (to make it into the next issue)?
  • potential conflicting workshop in Toronto on 2008.04.28~30 (ref. Doug Lenat's input) - Steve responded that there isn't anything we need to worry about

• Discussions:

• reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
  • see latest update -
  • Status: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2008-03/msg00023.html
    • all invitations out, except for (f.2) & (f.3);
    • accepted - 23
    • declined - 3
    • discussing - 2
    • awaiting response - __
    • (f.3): Barry will have one Japan candidate; Peter to pursue a Hong Kong candidate; Steve to propose a Korean candidate; we'll ping Ivan (Peter) and Bruce (Leo) for suggestion for other Asian candidates;
    • Barry will also invite someone from Singapore and Australia
  • Peter will post list of Advisory Committee members who have confirmed so far. (--done/ppy/2008.03.11-07:56)
    • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008#nid199T

• status review online discourse
  • we need to step up the level of activities here
  • move the summary pages up ... under the Ontology Summit 2008: "What's New"
  • Michelle to prompt the champions to put out strawman positions and get the various main topic threads going
  • Content Committee will start doing weekly calls starting today, on Mondays, right after this organizing committee call

• status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
  • Steve: url for the NIST Interoperability Week will be available real soon,
    • and with that to the registration pages for each workshop, including ours.
  • Susan Turnbull will be hosting an Expedition Workshop on the third day of Interoperability Week (i.e. Apr-30) too; we'll try to invite our community to join her on that session as well.
  • Steve: there will be no "plenary session" this year for Interoperability Week
  • Steve to start setting up a preliminary time-table, and a draft agenda - to be out by next Monday
  • Steve: URL for Interoperability Week is now ready, Peter will post to the wiki
  • Steve will post Interoperability Week details to [ontolog-invitation]
  • Steve: will post a draft agenda to the organizing committee for review tomorrow
  • Keynote speaker:
    • candidates: Paul A via Mark G (is this the right setting?);
    • Barry & Steve: ask Leo and Peter to explore this with Mark

• preparation status for the 3 upcoming panel sessions - 3/27, 4/3 & 410
  • Two sessions planned for "Expectations and Requirements for an Open Ontology Repository" - 3/27 & 4/3
    • Title: "Expectations and Requirements for an Open Ontology Repository"
    • co-chairs: 3/27 - Leo Obrst & Fabian Neuhaus ; 4/3: Leo Obrst & Barry Smith
    • panelists: "Why We Need an Open Ontology Repository"
      • those on 3/27
      • those on 4/3
  • One session planned for "Developing an Ontology of Ontologies" - 4/10
    • Title: "Developing an Ontology of Ontologies"
    • co-chairs: Pat Hayes & ?
    • panelists:
  • Peter to work with the session chairs to develop the event and keep this committee posted

• status review on how we are getting the word out
  • Steve: will get the NIST public affairs office to continue to help us with getting the word out
    • Steve: will update everyone at the next call

• the OntologySummit2008_Communique
  • Leo Obrst and Mark Musen were elected as our co-editors for the Communique and we'll look to them to get an outline and a draft out some time soon
  • please do draft work at: OntologySummit2008_Communique/Draft

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

• next Organizing Committee conference call - Mon 2008.03.17 - 1Hr. starting 12:30pm PDT / 3:30pm EDT
  • see details (closer to the time) at: OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_10/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_17

• Call adjourned at: 1:30 pm PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.03.10-1:30pm PDT

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