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OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 31-Mar-2008
- This is the 7th 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_31
Conference Call Details
- Date: Thursday, March 31, 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
- from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
- 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
- Steve Ray
- Barry Smith
- Leo Obrst
- Michelle Raymond
- Mark Musen
- Expecting:
- Regrets:
Agenda Ideas
- review status of "Advisory Committee" and the 'welcome letter'
- postmortem on the 2/28 & 3/27 OOR-Panel sessions and review preparation status for the 2 upcoming ones - 4/3 & 4/10
- status review and action plans for the online discourse
- status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation - review agenda
- draft communique preparation status
- 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:
- Steve Ray 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
- Leo and Steve will try to provide input by tomorrow, suggest we give Michael a go ahead even if there is no input.
- Discussions:
- review status of "Advisory Committee" and the 'welcome letter'
- list of confirmed Advisory Committee members - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008#nid199T
- "Advisors Welcome Message" - a "publicity oriented - announcement e-mail" of the Summit F2F
- ask all advisors to help circulate this to "their friends"
- extend invitations to the overseas advisors to come join us at the F2F workshop
- Barry will take care of this "interaction with Advisors"
- Peter to provide Barry with a email address list of all advisors - done!
- Barry: 'welcome letter' has all been sent -- Thanks, Barry!
- postmortem on the 2/28 & 3/27 OOR-Panel sessions and review preparation status for the 2 upcoming ones - 4/3 & 4/10
- see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/JointPanelSession_Strawman
- 4/3 speaking order review
- we'll go with Doug, Deke, Marcia, Denise, Pat, Mala and Rob
- status review online discourse
- status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
- Steve: Registration Announcement and URL for Interoperability Week is now ready, Peter will post to the wiki
- Peter: done; see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008#nid1BRH
- Steve: draft agenda now at - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda
- it was agreed that we will not have a "plenary/keynote" speaker
- Barry: any chance of webcasting the F2F workshop? - Steve will find out
- Steve: it'll cost $3600 ... will pass, since we have audio recording, and slides. We can do a bit more on still pictures.
- structuring the discussion ... unifying plot through the communique
- distinction between the intellectual content and the pragmatics of the future OOR-team implementation effort
- OOR team may need to meet about funding (which would be totally independent of the summit agenda)
- informal gathering on Monday evening?
- Mark: how would time be spent at the F2F on each of the topics
- Michelle: (a) report on what has transpired, (b) possibly invited presentations from key player(s), (c) open discussion (which would be 50% of the total time alloted; or at least 30~45 min.)
- Mark to Steve: can we start at 8:00am .. .not so much for the start time, but rather, can we fit everything in
- Time allotment: architecture - 2:00Hrs; state-of-art, quality & gatekeeping and ontology of ontology - each 1:15; all time squeezed out goes to the breaks (because they are among the most important parts of the F2F)
- we could revisit the session order and time allotment again after the 4/10 ont-of-ont OOR-Panel (say, on our 4/14 organizing committee call.)
- idea: we could split the architecture session with lunch in between.
- Mark: we should have demos; if not at the sessions, maybe in the evenings, during the Tuesdays breaks, during lunch, etc.
- Steve will pursue this and bring back suggestions next week.
- Steve: Registration Announcement and URL for Interoperability Week is now ready, Peter will post to the wiki
- 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
- develop a narrative how these all connect:
- what is the state-of-the-art in ontology repositories
- where are ontologies and where are mappings of ontologies
- what the gateway folks can come up with (entry requirement) -- criteria, validation, certification, ...
- methodology
- requirements from content providers
- to make it serious, we need to develop an ontology of ontologies
- OOR roadmap to realization
- Barry: Mark & Leo should communicate what they expect from the content champions (Mark: we'll email)
- Leo: forthcoming ... hopefully this week.
- 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 have a draft of the Interoperability Week press release within the next couple of days - will circulate that to the organizing committee list.
- Steve: will get the NIST public affairs office to continue to help us with getting the word out
5. New Issues:
6. Any Other Business:
7. Action items:
8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:
- next Organizing Committee conference call - Mon 2008.04.07 - 1Hr. starting 12:30pm PDT / 3:30pm EDT
- see details (closer to the time) at: OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_31/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_04_07
- Call adjourned at: 1:33 pm PDT
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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.03.31-1:33 pm PDT
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.