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= Input to the 2004-01-08 Planning Session by [[PeterYim]]  =

* Ontolog Forum Planning 

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** Articulate Goals (1 to 3 years) 

Task: Draft at least two goals (projects, to do items) & 2 measurable objectives (deliverables) for each goal
Time: 7 minutes to work independently & 3 minutes to review 

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*** Goals 
**** Be the foremost international open forum on Business Domain ontology -- attracting, retaining, [and invigorating] the best minds in this field as members of the community 
**** be running major projects in collaboration with other organizations in the business ontology domain 

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*** Deliverables 
**** have at least 5 to 10 active participants in all of the key facets of a community of practice 
**** number of projects going in 1 year - 3 ; 2 years - 10 ; 3 years - 30 

(ran out of time) ... moving on 

* UBL Ontology Project Planning 
** What timeframe? 
*** be able to release a first ubl-ontology (alpha-1) by May 2004 
*** be at beta stage by end Dec. 2004 
** 2 goals 
*** get funded so we actually have resources to get this work done 
*** team up with others -- standards group (UBL, UN/CEFACT, NIST, ...) and users organizations, so that our deliverables can be validated and applied 
** deliverables 
*** SBIR proposal by January 15 
*** get awarded at least 1 SBIR grant by Jun 2004 
*** start 3 pilot implementations after alpha is available 
*** have a demo for each of our 3 use cases 

* Constraints - top 4 
** not properly organized 
** don't have an action plan 
** not yet funded 
** not properly trained to implement the methodology adopted 

* Strategy 
** get organized 
*** form a proper team, with committed leadership 
** put together an action plan 
*** do KIF training (core player should all know how, even if not proficient) 
*** then assemble pairs of ontologist+domain experts and then formalize in natural language first 
*** get funded (and hire students to code after the process above) 
*** post a project plan / gantt chart ... (the whole works) ... and keep that refreshed 

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** also, we should have started with core components, not documents (like purchase order or invoice) 

* 3 issues under [Gap Analysis] - description, resolution strategy & 2 measurable objectives each: (session: 2004.02.05) 

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** (1) Lack of solid project plan -- as a project, maybe because this is a distributed ad hoc working group, we still lack the very basic organization and project life-cycle planning and management processes that ordinary projects of this sort would have started out with. 
*** Strategies -- 
**** what we are doing now ([[OntologPlanning]] 2004) is good, let's keep that up, and get more people involved 
**** appoint project managers and start to manage the [[UblOntology]] project like a "real" project, with regular and structured meetings (virtual or f2f), deliverables and deadlines. 
**** alloting one weekly session per month to do planning (as we are doing now) is great! 
**** before doing that, I think we need to get some sponsorship or funding, so that core people can make this part of their "job" and a priority to get things done on time. 

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** (2) Not properly trained to implement the methodology which has been adopted -- participating members should all be brought up to speed on the basics of formalizing a concept (say, something in UBL) and representing that in SUO-KIF. 
*** Strategies -- 
**** do structured tutorials and have them documented for future reference and re-use 

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** (3) Not adequately funded -- if we were to develop any sort of serious standards work, we need the resources to get things done properly. 
*** Strategies -- 
**** form a fund-raising sub- task force 
**** get commercial and government sponsors