OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2007 03 27

Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 03-Apr-2007

• This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 03-Apr-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC

• Session Chair: Olivier Bodenreider

Conference Call Details

• Date: Tuesday, April 3, 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)
  • DeborahMcGuinness (Stanford KSL)
  • Steve Ray (NIST)
  • Frank Olken (NSF)

• Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
  • BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)
  • 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
  • Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)

Agenda Ideas

• finalize on the speaker invitations for the 4/23 & 24 F2F sessions and get the invitations out
• discuss the processing of the OntologySummit2007_Survey and forum discussion inputs, and to coordinate on the preparation for the Apr-23 & 24 Summit face-to-face workshops. - devoting part of the 05-Apr-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it with Summit conveners
• Discuss - what could ensure us that we are bringing "value" to the community-at-large, with this "Ontology Summit 2007" endeavor?
• getting organized to summarize/synthesize the mailing list discussions on the wiki
• ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

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:

• 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.

we need to come to some virtual consensus even BEFORE the face-to-face

• finalize on the speaker invitations for the 4/23 & 24 F2F sessions and GET THE INVITATIONS OUT!
  • 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, 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 / Robert Stevens (Manchester), Chris Chute
  • Symposium session: suggested speakers - Steve Ray, Nicola Guarino, Tom Gruber,

session co-chairs will make the call on how they will be running their session, but whatever it is, please communicate that with everyone, and get the 'invitations' out (where applicable) ASAP!

• discuss the processing of the OntologySummit2007_Survey and forum discussion inputs, and to coordinate on the preparation for the Apr-23 & 24 Summit face-to-face workshops.
  • Peter: devoting part of the 05-Apr-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it with Summit conveners. Please come, if possible.
  • Deborah: distribute the work and get various people to summarize for the rest of the community
    • Peter / Steve: various people already assign (especially, session co-chairs and volunteered wiki editors)

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

• 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?
    • Steve: focus on the deliverables - and what will 'last' (even after all the discussions and the meetings) - that, possibly, could be the 'framework' that everyone could use in the future

• volunteered/assigned wiki editors
  • volunteers: Charles Turnitsa, Kurt Conrad, Bob Smith, Ken Baclawski, Steve Ray, DeborahMcGuinness, Peter P. Yim ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions), plus F2F session co-chairs
  • 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:

• Outstanding Issue Update:
  • organizing committee structure and protocol
  • 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
  • "co-sponsorship" - those who confirmed via the survey has been updated to the wiki already.

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

• Action Items:
  • Deborah, Leo & Michael to get in touch and start drafting the "framework"
  • Tom and Chris to get in touch with each other (if you haven't alerady) and get started on "populating"
  • Olivier & Frank are in touch now and will get started on drafting the "communique"
  • Peter to roll up the survey database and send it to Ken Baclawski for analysis,; also post it (for open access) so that the session co-chairs sice-and-dice the collected data and make use of them too
  • Since we only have 2 more organizing committee calls (Apr-10 & 17) and two available slots on the Ontolog Thursday conference call (Apr-5 & 19) where we can involve others in the community, please pitch in some ideas on how we could optimally use these time slots to advance the process in preparation for the Apr-23 & 24 face-to-face meetings.
    • note that we'll be devoting part of this Thursday's (05-Apr-2007) Ontolog weekly call to discuss the processing of the OntologySummit2007_Survey and forum discussion inputs, and, hopefully, engage others in the community, to coordinate on the preparation for the Apr-23 & 24 Summit face-to-face workshops. (see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidYTV) ... come if you can.
  • Asked where should one start (to catch up) - Peter answered, from the top of the Ontology Summit 2007 project home page - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007

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 10-Apr-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC. (ref: world clock)
  • Steve Ray expects that he'll be missing the Apr-10 call.
  • Peter P. Yim expects to be missing the Apr-17 call

• Call adjourned at: 9:08 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.04.03-09:27 PDT

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