OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2007 03 20

Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 27-Mar-2007

• This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 27-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC

• Session Chair:

Conference Call Details

• Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007
• Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm 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:
  • Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, NIH)
  • Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
  • LeoObrst* (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 (at the dentist)

Agenda Ideas

• finalize on the speaker invitations for the 4/23 & 24 F2F sessions
• follow-up on the survey
• 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

... (Final 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:

• Peter: survey reminder/follow-up messages clustering various constituencies are out

• finalize on the speaker invitations for the 4/23 & 24 F2F sessions
  • ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit-org/2007-03/msg00045.html
  • still have no news from Nicola if he could possibly change his mind
  • Leo: 'Framework' session: suggested speakers - Leo Obrst, Michael Grüninger, DeborahMcGuinness, Michael Uschold, Chris Welty, Barry Smith, Denise Bedford, Tom Gruber
  • 'Populating / categorizing' session: suggested speakers - Chris Welty, Tom Gruber, Bill Andersen, Conrad Bock, Evan Wallace, Elisa Kendall, Pat Hayes, Chris Menzel, John F. Sowa, Mark Musen, Olivier Bodenreider, Denise Bedford, DanGillman, Christiane Fellbaum, Doug Lenat, RobinMcEntire, Charlynn Clayton (Amgen), Bill Bug (BIRN, Drexel) / Maryann Martone (BIRN, UCSD), W3C Semantic Web

HCLS interest group co-chairs: Eric Neumann, Tonya Hongsermeier; Susie Stephens (BioRDF taskforce), Vipul Kashyap (BioONT taskforce); also need to engage more European folks

• • 'Communique' session: suggested speakers - Olivier Bodenreider, Frank Olken, Charles Turnitsa, Kurt Conrad, Bob Smith, Ken Baclawski, Steve Ray, Alan Rector, Chris Chute, need to engage more European folks
  • Symposium session: suggested speakers - Steve Ray, Nicola Guarino, Tom Gruber, chairs representing the workshop deliberation, someone from Europe, PeterBrown? ...
  • Leo and Olivier will forward our survey message to some of the folks listed above who are new to the initiative (today); copy [ontology-summit-org] for follow-up
  • Co-chairs should finalize their list and invite speakers ASAP (so that these speakers can make plans to join us and prepare their briefings.)

• Steve Ray: just emerged work priorities have now impacted my ability to devote more time to helping the summit synthesis work, please note.

• how can we effectively use the rest of the open Thursdays (Ontolog time slot) to help with the summit prep work before the f2f?

• 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
    • deadline extension / reminder posted: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00052.html
    • Peter: survey reminder/follow-up messages clustering various constituencies are out
    • Ken Baclawski to help with analysis afterwards
    • hopefully, constituency champions will help drive a dialog to clarify issues related to particular constituencies (and thus help the immediate next bullet)

• 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

• 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?

• 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-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it

4. Outstanding Issues:

• Session Planing:
  • 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) - Co-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.

(we are trying to come to conslusions even BEFORE the face-to-face)

• drafting the communique - Olivier will try to get started with Frank on this. Issue, obviously is that the content has yet to emerge.

• solicitng "co-sponsorship" - please endorse the initiative; they have to choose on the conclusion - Peter to do it - Peter will continue to work on this

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 03-Apr-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC. (ref: world clock)
  • Steve Ray: can make the next one, but will be missing the Apr-10 call also.

• Call adjourned at: 9:16 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.03.27-09:20 PDT

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