Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 20-Mar-2007

• This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 20-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC

• Session Chair:

Conference Call Details

• Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007
• Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes
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• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated.

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, NIH)
  • Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
  • Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)

• Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
  • BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)
  • DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL)
  • FrankOlken* (NSF)
  • MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
  • NicolaGuarino* (LOA-CNR.IT)

• Regrets:
  • Chris Welty - standing regrets for the Tue time slot
  • Tom Gruber - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time
  • Ivan Herman - (on trip)
  • Steve Ray (on travel out-of-the-country)

Agenda Ideas

• follow-ups now that the survey is out?
• Discuss - what could ensure us that we are bringing "value" to the community-at-large, with this "Ontology Summit 2007" endeavor?
• organizing committee structure and protocol - distributing the workload
• getting organized to get dialogs from representatives of other constituencies (other than formal ontologists) going - review/add/comment on list of people who could represent various constituencies and contribute to providing their input and perspectives
• getting organized to summarize/synthesize the mailing list discussions on the wiki - devoting part of the 15-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it with Summit conveners
• ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

... (Agenda Coming ... what's captured here is mainly from last week)

1. Meeting called to order:

• Olivier Bodenreider took the chair and welcomed everyone

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

2. Roll Call:

• see above

3. Urgent Issues:

• follow-ups on the "Ontology Summit 2007 Survey"
  • cover-message/invitation at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html
    • survey form at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/summit72.html
  • please pass it along to related communities, post to other lists, blog about it, ... etc.
    • ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-03/msg00033.html
    • posted the invitation also to: KM-List (gsa.gov), [protege-discussion]
    • blog posts seen at:
      • by Robert David Steele of oss.net: http://www.citizens-party.org/?p=122

• Discussion:
  • What could ensure us that we are bringing "value" to the community-at-large (or even the world-at-large), with this "Ontology Summit 2007" endeavor? How do we keep conveners engaged?

• assigning wiki editors
  • volunteers: Charles Turnitsa, Kurt Conrad, Bob Smith, Ken Baclawski, Steve Ray, DeborahMcGuinness, Peter P. Yim ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions)
  • protocol & editor coordination - Peter: suggest we try to engage the conveners and devote some part of the 22-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it

4. Outstanding Issues:

• Completed Task Report:
  • the survey is now out - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html
  • Peter will ping the various community champions for their survey response, and to solicit their help to synthesize and elaborate on the input representing their constituencies
  • survey responses close on 25-Mar-2007 (or shortly thereafter). We will then:
    • post the raw collected data (with organizations, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and expertise self-assessment removed) for the conveners to view, discussion and make suggestions
    • we will analyse and synthesize the collected data (KenBaclawski has volunteered to work with Peter P. Yim on this, so far)

• Outstanding Issue Update:
  • Leo Obrst and Michael Grüninger will drive the "framework" (dimensions, typology, ...)
    • DeborahMcGuinness also volunteered to help write this up
  • Chris Welty & Tom Gruber to drive the categorization
  • Olivier Bodenreider & Frank Olken will drive the communique
  • ALL: please do all internal exchanges and discussions over the [ontology-summit-org] list (so everyone else is posted, as all these task are so interrelated)
  • ALL: we'll try to engage all conveners in the process by using the [ontology-summit] list (this will help the adoption of the proposed farmework, categorization & communique eventually, which we will need)
    • we need to try to come to conclusions (or at least very close to it) even BEFORE the face-to-face

• outstanding - (not discussed at this call)
  • organizing committee structure and protocol
  • pending responses
    • organizing committee / keynote: Dieter Fensel, TimBernersLee
    • conveners: Chiara F, Thomas B (pending - ref: "key participant" role confirmation)
  • Public Relations & The Press - Steve taking this on
    • Steve already working on a pre-event press release; hopefully one or two articles out before the F2F

• Reviewed:
  • scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium
    • Monday am: "The Framework" (Agreeing to the final picture) - Co-chairs: Leo Obrst / Michael Grüninger
    • Monday pm: "Populating the Framework" (Endorsing the picture) - Co-chairs: Chris Welty / Tom Gruber
    • (Tueday early am: NIST Interoperability Week Plenary)
    • Tueday am: Finalizing the Communique - Co-Chair: Olivier Bodenreider / Frank Olken
    • Tueday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Chair: Steve Ray / NicolaGuarino?
      • Keynote: Tom Gruber
      • Panel: ... (tbd)
        • ... we'll try to feature people who can represent the different perspectives of the various constituencies
        • also: a diverse representation (geographically)
        • and, most importantly, by merit ... based on quality and substantive contribution in the virtual discourse and synthesis phase.
    • travel funding - checking MITRE, NSF (for speaker travel)?

• Adopted at this meeting:
  • Steve Ray & Nicola Guarino will be invited to co-chair the 24-Mar-2007 Summit Symposium
  • the 6-step / draft-2 process is now formally adopted - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

• ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list

• Next Meeting: (candidate) unless otherwise re-scheduled (which we likely will) our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 27-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC. (ref: world clock)

• Call adjourned at: 9:11am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.03.20-09:33 PDT

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