OntologySummit2009: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 18-Dec-2008

• This is the 1st conference call of the OntologySummit2009 organizing committee. The session is expected to be a brief (45 min. to 1-Hr. conference call so organizing committee members can get to know each other and to set the stage for the community-wide brainstorming and planning meeting that follows.

• URL for this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2009_12_18

Conference Call Details

• Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008
• Start Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CET / 17:30 UTC
  • see world clock for other time zones
• 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"
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• 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.

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• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated.

• 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

• Attended:
  • Leo Obrst
  • Kurt Conrad
  • Robin Benjamins
  • Laurent Liscia
  • BillMcCarthy
  • Trish Whetzel
  • Nils Sandsmark
  • David Price
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Fabian Neuhaus
  • Peter Benson
  • Rex Brooks

Agenda Ideas

• Ontology Summits - Overview and what has come before
• getting ready for the OntologySummit2009 community-wide planning meeting today - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_12_18
• getting to know one another
• who are on our Organizing Committee and Advisory Committee?
• which organization are on our Co-Organizer and Co-Sponsor rosters?
• determine date/time of next call, and possibly institutionalizing that as a weekly call

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

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

• Leo Obrst took the chair and welcomed everyone

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

• review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

• see above

3. Discussions:

• getting to know one another - (go around) self-introductions

• Ontology Summits - Overview and what has come before
  • going over the summit theme and description - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009#nid1Q2F
  • meeting agrees the description looks fine, and suggest possibly tweaking with the following:
    • Peter P. Yim: could we slip in standards to be unstood by both humans and machine
    • Leo Obrst & Fabian Neuhaus: representing standards in a logical language allows for them to be expressed precisely, unambiguously and allow for automated consistency, validity checks etc.
    • Peter Benson: beware of the use of "information" - let's mull over this on the [ontology-summit-org] list
      • Peter Benson & Peter P. Yim: maybe the original tag line: "Ontologies as the Next Generation Standards" is actually better

• getting ready for the OntologySummit2009 community-wide planning meeting today - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_12_18

• who are on our Organizing Committee and Advisory Committee?
  • terms of reference explained
  • defer discussion to the next organizing committee call

• which organization are on our Co-Organizer and Co-Sponsor rosters?

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

• determine date/time of next call, and possibly institutionalizing that as a weekly call
  • Mondays 12 noon EST 1-Hr.

• Call adjourned at: 10:29 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.12.18-10:309 am PST

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