Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Meeting - Fri 2007-01-26

• Topic: First Meeting of the full Organizing Committee for OntologySummit2007

• Session Chair: LeoObrst (NIST)

Conference Call Details

• Date: Thursday, January 26, 2007
• Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 8:00pm CET / 19:00 GMT/UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours
• Dial-in Number:
  • from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
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  • 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.

Attendees

• Attended
  • Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, NIH)
  • Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
  • Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
  • David Weinberger (Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
  • Barry Smith (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)

• Expecting
  • Ivan Herman (W3C)
  • Frank Olken (NSF)
  • Mark Musen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
  • Steve Ray (NIST)
  • Chris Welty (IBM Research)

• Regrets:
  • Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR.IT)
  • DeborahMcGuinness (Stanford KSL)

Agenda Ideas

• ... (please post here; indentify 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

2. Roll Call:

• see above

3. Urgent Issues:

4. Outstanding Issues:

• introductions among the members
• aligning everyone's expectations as well as their understanding of our objectives

5. New Issues:

• 2007.01.18 Launch Meeting postmortem
• Organizing Committee Membership
  • missing responses / confirmations
  • more web 2.0 representation - maybe as convener; ping other organizing committee members for suggestion
    • David suggests: Peter Morville, Peter Merholv, Jesse James Garrett (informtion architecture institute)
      • David will try to engage these people on our behalf (or see who else they would suggest)
• discussion: our deliverables
  • 3 months of virtual discourse
  • 3 half-day face-to-face technical workshop
    • (a) ...
    • (b) ...
    • (c) ...
  • a half-day open public meeting (with press)
  • a written communique
  • new: how about a poster? (--suggested: ppy / 2007.01.22)
• discussion: our approach & process
• Assessment of current progress
  • seeding the discussion?
  • assigning / self-selecting thread moderators?
  • co-editor volunteers solicitation?
• distributing the organizing chore
  • engaging participants from specific target communties
  • drafting the communique
  • ...
  • Leo: 10 dimensions (see 1/25/07 post); get people to post under an appropriate subject line
  • Olivier: take advantage of the wiki; list the things that we don't want to discussed
  • Peter: as Steve mentioned, I'll "garden" the wiki, but I'll need help

6. Any Other Business:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

• since we were not able to get close to a full organizing committee meeting together, most of the agenda is now deferred to the next call, which is now agreed to be a 1-hour call starting at Tue 30-Jan-2007 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET.
  • we will schedule this "first" call for 1-hour, and hope that subsequent sync-up calls will only last 30 minutes each week (with most of our transactions done via the [ontology-summit-org] e-mail list.

• Next Meeting:
  • choice of regular weekly sync-up call time slot -
    • Nicola's preference Monday through Thursday 1:30~2:30pm EST / 10:30~11:30am PST / 7:30~8:30pm CET -- Thursdays are out because of a conflict with regularly scheduled Ontolog events
  • Deborah's suggested: Mon, Tue or Wednesdays, 11:30am~12:30pm EST / 8:30~9:30am PST / 5:30~6:30pm CET; sometimes i could make 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET on friday
  • Steve: The one day I can't meet is Wednesdays after 1:30pm EST / 10:30am PST / 7:30pm CET
  • Ivan: Tuesday evening would be *ideal* for me at those times. Mondays and Wednesdays are not

possible *at all* at those times.

• • Peter: on Tuesdays, I can only be available after 12:30am EST / 9:30am PST / 6:30pm CET; and will probably have to miss a few meeting (like once a month). Mon, Wed & Fridays work better for me.

• Call adjourned at: 8:49am PST / 11:49am EST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.01.26-09:08am PST

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