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= [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday | = [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 13-Mar-2007 = | ||
* This session will a | * This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 13-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC | ||
* Session Chair: [[ | * Session Chair: [[OlivierBodenreider|Olivier Bodenreider]] | ||
=== [[MeetingsCalls|Conference Call]] Details === | === [[MeetingsCalls|Conference Call]] Details === | ||
* Date: Tuesday, March | * Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 | ||
* Start Time: 8: | * Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC | ||
** ref: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day= | ** ref: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=13&year=2007&hour=8&min=30&sec=0&p1=224 World Clock] | ||
* Expected Call Duration: | * Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes | ||
* Dial-in Number: | * Dial-in Number: | ||
** from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA) | ** from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA) | ||
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* Attended: | * Attended: | ||
** | ** OlivierBodenreider* (NLM, NIH) | ||
** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] (Ontolog, CIM3) | ** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] (Ontolog, CIM3) | ||
** | ** BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo) | ||
* Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in) | * Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in) | ||
** FrankOlken* (NSF) | ** FrankOlken* (NSF) | ||
** MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI) | |||
** NicolaGuarino* (LOA-CNR.IT) | |||
* Regrets: | * Regrets: | ||
** [[ChrisWelty|Chris Welty]] (IBM Research) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot | ** [[ChrisWelty|Chris Welty]] (IBM Research) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot | ||
** Tom Gruber (Tomgruber.org) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time | ** Tom Gruber (Tomgruber.org) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time | ||
** | ** [[IvanHerman|Ivan Herman]] (W3C) - can't make it this week | ||
** [[ | ** [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] (NIST) | ||
** | ** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] (Ontolog, MITRE) | ||
** [[DeborahMcGuinness]] (Stanford KSL) | |||
=== Agenda Ideas === | === Agenda Ideas === | ||
* 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 | * 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 get dialogs from representatives of other constituencies (other than formal ontologists) going | * getting organized to summarize/synthesize the mailing list discussions on the wiki - devoting part of the 15-Mar-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it with Summit conveners | ||
* getting organized to summarize/synthesize the mailing list discussions on the wiki - devoting part of the 15- | * Deborah: I suggest that in this and in near term meetings we try to get very tight scope; | ||
* '' ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)'' | * '' ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)'' | ||
== Agenda & Proceedings == | == Agenda & Proceedings == | ||
... ''(Agenda Coming)'' | |||
1. Meeting called to order: | 1. Meeting called to order: | ||
* [[ | * [[OlivierBodenreider|Olivier Bodenreider]] took the chair and welcomed everyone | ||
* [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] volunteered to take minutes of the meeting | * [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] volunteered to take minutes of the meeting | ||
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2. Roll Call: | 2. Roll Call: | ||
* see [http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/ | * see [http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_03_13#nidUW0 above] | ||
3. Urgent Issues: | |||
* Having a 'framework' ready, when inputs are returned on our survey. | |||
* getting the community-specific discussions going: | * getting the community-specific discussions going: | ||
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*** Peter: ask various communities to put together a glossary of their ontology (or ontology-related) vocabulary | *** Peter: ask various communities to put together a glossary of their ontology (or ontology-related) vocabulary | ||
*** Steve / Nicola: ask various community representative to where they think they fit in | *** Steve / Nicola: ask various community representative to where they think they fit in | ||
*** try getting Tom Gruber to present his view some time soon, that is going to help | *** try getting Tom Gruber to present his view some time soon, that is going to help - Tom has posted, both [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00029.html on 'ontology'] and [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00031.html on 'folksonomy']. Thanks, Tom! | ||
*** Steve: steer away from the word 'ontology' and just ask other communities how they define their 'structures' | |||
*** Olivier / Steve: we should be the USGS (cartographers) rather than the UN (peacekeepers) of 'ontologies' here. | |||
*** Steve / Leo: start putting something up (a draft) so that people have something to talk about | |||
**** cadidates to drive the drafting: [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]], [[MichaelGruninger|Michael Grüninger]], ... with support from Steve, Olivier | |||
**** start from the draft communique wiki page ... and have anyone contribute even small chunks (without major time commitments) | |||
**** maybe someone could start by drafting a table-of-content - Steve? | |||
**** when ready for another round of reviews, someone makes a post to [ontology-summit] list | |||
**** use combination of wiki, spreadsheet (google spreadsheet for collaborative editing, and excel for the purpose) | |||
*** thanks to [[DeborahMcGuinness]], she has [http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-03/msg00017.html#nid01 volunteered] to co-lead the ontology spectrum discussion and writeup. | |||
* Discussion: | * Discussion: | ||
** | ** Good News! - Olivier advises that NLM has officially confirmed that we may list them as a 'co-sponsor'. (Thank you, Olivier!) | ||
** 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? | |||
** | |||
* assigning wiki editors | * assigning wiki editors | ||
** volunteers: [[CharlesTurnitsa|Charles Turnitsa]], [[KurtConrad|Kurt Conrad]], [[BobSmith|Bob Smith]], [[User:KennethBaclawski|Ken Baclawski]], ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions) | ** volunteers: [[CharlesTurnitsa|Charles Turnitsa]], [[KurtConrad|Kurt Conrad]], [[BobSmith|Bob Smith]], [[User:KennethBaclawski|Ken Baclawski]], [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]], [[DeborahMcGuinness]], [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions) | ||
** protocol & editor coordination - Peter: suggest we try to engage the conveners and devote a good part of the 15- | ** protocol & editor coordination - Peter: suggest we try to engage the conveners and devote a good part of the 15-Mar-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it | ||
4. Outstanding Issues: | 4. Outstanding Issues: | ||
* Completed Task Report: | * Completed Task Report: | ||
** ... | ** "tag line" for the "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative announced. see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00028.html | ||
* Surveying participants & getting constituency champions' perspectives | |||
* Surveying participants | |||
** Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2): | ** Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2): | ||
*** draft-2 questionnaire: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2#nidUFO | *** draft-2 questionnaire: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2#nidUFO | ||
*** Peter to move ahead and release the survey; personal contact to targeted champions to get their inputs | *** Peter is [http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-03/msg00022.html posted] to the [ontology-summit-org] list on 2007.03.12, a list of folks who could represent perspectives of various constituencies. Input solicited from organizing committee members. | ||
*** | *** Peter is still working on the survey; he will move ahead and release the survey; and then personal contact to targeted champions to get their inputs. Help to spread this workload appreciated. | ||
** Peter: we'll give people 7~10 days to respond | |||
** Barry / Olivier: if people provide elaborate answers, we'll request them to summarize it in bullet points | |||
* Outstanding Issue Update: | * Outstanding Issue Update: | ||
** organizing committee structure and protocol | ** organizing committee structure and protocol | ||
*** Barry: splitting the championship role - suggestions/candidates: | |||
**** Folksonomy: Tom Gruber | |||
**** Taxonomy: [[DeniseBedford|Denise Bedford]] | |||
**** Metadata: [[FrankOlken|Frank Olken]] | |||
**** Semantic Web: [[IvanHerman|Ivan Herman]] | |||
**** Information Models: ? | |||
***** Peter: e.g. the UML people | |||
***** Barry: e.g. Oil & Gas work Matthew West is doing should be in this category | |||
****** Peter our objective is to develop a typology (rather than telling people how they should use the word "ontology") | |||
******* Barry suggested we still consider establishing a "controlled vocabulary" | |||
**** Olivier / Barry: try to engage [[FrankHartel|Frank Hartel]] (Peter suggest Olivier contacts Frank as a champion), also [[ChristopherChute|Christopher Chute]]; Peter re-iterates the solicitation for suggestions to his constituency/champion [http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-03/msg00022.html post] | |||
* | |||
** pending responses | ** pending responses | ||
*** organizing committee / keynote: [[DieterFensel|Dieter Fensel]], [[TimBernersLee]] | *** organizing committee / keynote: [[DieterFensel|Dieter Fensel]], [[TimBernersLee]] | ||
*** conveners: Chiara F, Thomas B (pending - ref: "key participant" role confirmation) | *** 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 | |||
** 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: [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] / MichaelGruninger? | |||
*** Monday pm: "Populating the Framework" (Endorsing the picture) - Co-chairs: [[ChrisWelty|Chris Welty]] / Tom Gruber | |||
*** (Tueday early am: NIST Interoperability Week Plenary) | |||
*** Tueday am: Finalizing the Communique - Co-Chair: [[OlivierBodenreider|Olivier Bodenreider]] / FrankOlken? | |||
*** Tueday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Chair: [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] | |||
**** Keynote: Tom Gruber | |||
**** Panel: ... (tbd) | |||
***** ... we'll try to feature people who can represent the different perspectives of the various constituencies and those who made substantive contribution in the discourse. | |||
:::(we are trying to come to conslusions even BEFORE the face-to-face) | |||
5. New Issues: | 5. New Issues: | ||
* drafting the communique | * drafting the communique | ||
* solicitng "co-sponsorship" - please endorse the initiative; they have to choose on the conclusion - Peter to do it. | * solicitng "co-sponsorship" - please endorse the initiative; they have to choose on the conclusion - Peter to do it. | ||
: | 6. Any Other Business: | ||
7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: | 7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: | ||
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* ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list | * ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list | ||
* Next Meeting: our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue | * Next Meeting: (candidate) unless otherwise re-scheduled (which we likely will) our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 20-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC. (ref: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=20&year=2007&hour=8&min=30&sec=0&p1=224 world clock]) | ||
* Call adjourned at: | * Call adjourned at: 8:00 am PDT | ||
-- | -- | ||
notes taken by: [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / 2007.03. | notes taken by: [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / 2007.03.13-8:05 PDT | ||
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. | All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:50, 9 January 2016
Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 13-Mar-2007
- This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 13-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC
- Session Chair: Olivier Bodenreider
Conference Call Details
- Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007
- Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC
- ref: World Clock
- Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes
- Dial-in Number:
- from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
- from Europe, call:
- Belgium 070-35-9989
- France 0826-100-277
- Germany 01805-00-7649
- Ireland 0818-270-034
- Italy 0848-390-175
- Switzerland 0848-560-195
- UK 0870-738-0763
- callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
- 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:
- OlivierBodenreider* (NLM, NIH)
- Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
- BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)
- Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
- FrankOlken* (NSF)
- MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
- NicolaGuarino* (LOA-CNR.IT)
- Regrets:
- Chris Welty (IBM Research) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot
- Tom Gruber (Tomgruber.org) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time
- Ivan Herman (W3C) - can't make it this week
- Steve Ray (NIST)
- Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
- DeborahMcGuinness (Stanford KSL)
Agenda Ideas
- 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-Mar-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it with Summit conveners
- Deborah: I suggest that in this and in near term meetings we try to get very tight scope;
- ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)
Agenda & Proceedings
... (Agenda Coming)
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:
- Having a 'framework' ready, when inputs are returned on our survey.
- getting the community-specific discussions going:
- see (communities enumerated): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_DefinitionsOfOntology#nidTIS
- and (champions we have in mind): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_01_30#nidSZQ
- action: ...
- Ivan: consider asking people to identify what community they belong to
- Nicola: we catalog, and map out the framework
- Peter: ask various communities to put together a glossary of their ontology (or ontology-related) vocabulary
- Steve / Nicola: ask various community representative to where they think they fit in
- try getting Tom Gruber to present his view some time soon, that is going to help - Tom has posted, both on 'ontology' and on 'folksonomy'. Thanks, Tom!
- Steve: steer away from the word 'ontology' and just ask other communities how they define their 'structures'
- Olivier / Steve: we should be the USGS (cartographers) rather than the UN (peacekeepers) of 'ontologies' here.
- Steve / Leo: start putting something up (a draft) so that people have something to talk about
- cadidates to drive the drafting: Leo Obrst, Michael Grüninger, ... with support from Steve, Olivier
- start from the draft communique wiki page ... and have anyone contribute even small chunks (without major time commitments)
- maybe someone could start by drafting a table-of-content - Steve?
- when ready for another round of reviews, someone makes a post to [ontology-summit] list
- use combination of wiki, spreadsheet (google spreadsheet for collaborative editing, and excel for the purpose)
- thanks to DeborahMcGuinness, she has volunteered to co-lead the ontology spectrum discussion and writeup.
- Discussion:
- Good News! - Olivier advises that NLM has officially confirmed that we may list them as a 'co-sponsor'. (Thank you, Olivier!)
- 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?
- 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 a good part of the 15-Mar-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it
4. Outstanding Issues:
- Completed Task Report:
- "tag line" for the "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative announced. see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00028.html
- Surveying participants & getting constituency champions' perspectives
- Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2):
- draft-2 questionnaire: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2#nidUFO
- Peter is posted to the [ontology-summit-org] list on 2007.03.12, a list of folks who could represent perspectives of various constituencies. Input solicited from organizing committee members.
- Peter is still working on the survey; he will move ahead and release the survey; and then personal contact to targeted champions to get their inputs. Help to spread this workload appreciated.
- Peter: we'll give people 7~10 days to respond
- Barry / Olivier: if people provide elaborate answers, we'll request them to summarize it in bullet points
- Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2):
- Outstanding Issue Update:
- organizing committee structure and protocol
- Barry: splitting the championship role - suggestions/candidates:
- Folksonomy: Tom Gruber
- Taxonomy: Denise Bedford
- Metadata: Frank Olken
- Semantic Web: Ivan Herman
- Information Models: ?
- Peter: e.g. the UML people
- Barry: e.g. Oil & Gas work Matthew West is doing should be in this category
- Peter our objective is to develop a typology (rather than telling people how they should use the word "ontology")
- Barry suggested we still consider establishing a "controlled vocabulary"
- Peter our objective is to develop a typology (rather than telling people how they should use the word "ontology")
- Olivier / Barry: try to engage Frank Hartel (Peter suggest Olivier contacts Frank as a champion), also Christopher Chute; Peter re-iterates the solicitation for suggestions to his constituency/champion post
- Barry: splitting the championship role - suggestions/candidates:
- 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
- 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 / MichaelGruninger?
- 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 / FrankOlken?
- Tueday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Chair: Steve Ray
- Keynote: Tom Gruber
- Panel: ... (tbd)
- ... we'll try to feature people who can represent the different perspectives of the various constituencies and those who made substantive contribution in the discourse.
- pending responses
- (we are trying to come to conslusions even BEFORE the face-to-face)
5. New Issues:
- drafting the communique
- solicitng "co-sponsorship" - please endorse the initiative; they have to choose on the conclusion - Peter to do it.
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 20-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC. (ref: world clock)
- Call adjourned at: 8:00 am PDT
--
notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.03.13-8:05 PDT
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.