First [ontolog] Face-to-Face Meeting & Workshop (A8V)
Description (A8W)
This is the first face-to-face meeting and workshop of the [ontolog] community since its re-constitution in September 2002. We are pleased to be colocating our workshop with the face-to-face meeting of the OASIS UBL Technical Committee, and is grateful to Sun Microsystems for hosting us at their San Francisco (CA) office. (A8X)
Dates / Location / Venue (A8Y)
- Date / Time: Wed ~ Fri, Nov. 5~7, 2003 (A8Z)
- Location: (colocated with the OASIS UBL TC Meeting) (A90)
Sun Microsystems (San Francisco drop-in Center) 631 Howard Ave. San Francisco, California, USA. (A91)
- Logistics: see JonBosak's UBL posts - UBL meeting agenda & logistics, "Geek Hotels". (A92)
Who (A93)
- Who should be coming? (A94)
- All members of the ontolog community, active members as well as observers. (A95)
- those who are thinking of joining the [ontolog-forum] of finding out what it is doing. (A96)
- individuals and corporate personnel interested in the research & development of E-Business standards through the use of ontological engineering methodologies. (A97)
- Attendance, in person: (A98)
- PeterYim (A99)
- KurtConrad (A9A)
- AdamPease (A9B)
- BillMcCarthy (A9C)
- BobSmith (A9D)
- JonBosak (UBL) (A9E)
- SueProbert (UBL-Ontolog; UN/CEFACT) (A9F)
- TimMcGrath (UBL-Ontolog) (A9G)
- MarionRoyal (UBL-Ontolog; GSA) (A9H)
- EduardoGutentag (UBL-Ontolog) (A9I)
- Arofan Gregory (UBL) (A9J)
- Stephen Green (UBL; Seventh Project-UK) (A9K)
- Even Thorbergsen (UBL; Norway) (A9L)
- Per Myrseth (UBL; IBM-Norway) (A9M)
- Mikkel Hippe Brun (UBL; SchemaWorks-Denmark) (A9N)
- CHIN Chee Kai (UBL; SoftML-Singapore) (A9O)
- Attendance, via phone conference: -- see below for call-in details (A9P)
- PatCassidy -- I won't be able to attend, but will try to be available by telephone if there is any reason to do so. (A9Q)
- MonicaMartin -- will try to call in, at least on the ontolog-ubl joint plenary (A9R)
- JohnYunker -- something came up; attended vitually instead of being onsite as planned (A9S)
- LeoObrst -- I'll be at CIKM in New Orleans that week, i.e., 2003.11.05 - 2003.11.08, but could call in for some. (A9T)
- Material presented at the workshop (and relevant resources): http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/workshop/nov-2003/ (A9U)
- Meeting Proceedings and Notes (A9X)
- Other recommended resources dicussed/mentioned during the workshop (besides the speakers' presentations, which can be linked to from the workshop program below, where available.) (AA0)
- MichaelDaconta, LeoObrst and Kevin Smith's book "The Semantic Web : A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management" --recommended by BobSmith (AA1)
- Eve Maler's (previous Chair of UBL Naming & Design Rule Subcommittee) presentation on UBL: "XML for e-Business" (summer, 2003) --recommended by Marion Royal. (AA2)
- Standard Upper Ontology Knowledge Interchange Format (SUO-KIF) --recommended by AdamPease, as being the "reader digest" version of the KIF language manual; should be a prerequisite to commencing formalization work converting UBL to SUO-KIF by extending SUMO. (AA3)
- Jeffrey Parsons & Yair Wand's "Emancipating Instances from the Tyranny of Classes in Information Modeling" --recommended by KurtConrad (AA4)
- Terry Winograd, Nancy Newman & Peter Yim's 1991 paper: "Including People in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Designs" --recommended by PeterYim, in that we should challenge our assumptions and expectations once "people" are involved as an integral part of our systems. And that, actually, applies to all human-computer system designs; not just manufacturing systems. (AA5)
Workshop Program (AA6)
(posted 2003.10.14 -kwc) (last updated: ppy / 2003.11.06) (AA7)
2003.11.04 (Tuesday) (AA8)
- 19:00 - 21:30 - - Reception at DougEngelbart's House, Atherton CA (AA9)
- See picture. (unretouched original) (AAA)
2003.11.05 (Wednesday) (AAB)
- 09:00 - 09:30 - - Set up room and mingle (AAC)
- 09:30 - 10:00 - - Welcome / Review agenda (AAD)
- 10:15 - 11:30 - - JonBosak -- Chair, OASIS UBL Technical Committee -- "UBL: EDI for the Masses" (AAE)
- 11:30 - 12:15 - - Brief introductions (AAF)
- 12:15 - 13:15 - - PeterYim -- "The "ontolog" Collaborative Work Environment: an introduction to the community platform and tool-suite" (see also: screen shots from the cwe) (AAG)
- 13:15 - 14:00 - - LUNCH (AAH)
- 14:00 - 15:50 - - Preparation & Dry run of presentations to UBL Committee (AAI)
- 15:00 - 17:00 - - Joint session with UBL Committee (AAJ)
- 15:00-15:45 - - KurtConrad -- "Ontolog Project Report" (AAK)
- 15:45-17:00 - - AdamPease -- "Introduction to Ontology" Tutorial (AAL)
- 17:15 - 18:15 - - ad hoc meeting, ontolog and interested ubl member (AAM)
2003.11.06 (Thursday) (AAN)
- 09:30 - 12:10 - - Attendee Presentations (AAO)
- 09:30 - - BobSmith -- "The Semantic Web Services Landscape" (AAP)
- 10:30 - - BillMcCarthy -- "Modeling REA Business Patterns / ISO Open-EDI Accounting-Economic Ontology" (see also: UN/CEFACT - REA Overview) (AAQ)
- 11:30 - - PatCassidy - "Protege/KIF Filter Project" (sumo155k protege files) (download/install Protégé-2000 if you don't have it yet) (AAR)
- 12:30 - - KurtConrad (moderator) -- Use Cases, requirements & spec discussion (AAS)
- 13:30 - 14:00 - - LUNCH (AAT)
- 14:00 - 17:00 - - UBL Panel (AAU)
- 14:00 - - SueProbert -- Vice-Chair, UN/CEFACT TBG; Chair, ebXML-Core Component Committee -- "UN/CEFACT and ISO Semantic Harmonization Projects" (AAV)
- 15:00 - - MarionRoyal -- GSA CIO Council -- "E-Gov Status and Reference Model Developments" (AAW)
- 16:00 - - EduardoGutentag and Arofan Gregory -- "Context Methodology Vision for UBL" (AAX)
- 17:30 - 19:00 - - Joint Wine and Cheese Reception (bring a wine from your locale) (AAY)
2003.11.07 (Friday) (AAZ)
- 09:30 - 10:30 - - BoNewman -- "Alignment in the Virtual Project Space" (AB0)
- 10:30 - 12:00 - - KurtConrad (facilitator) -- Ontolog Planning Session (see proceedings) (AB1)
- 12:00 - 13:00 - - LUNCH (AB2)
- 13:00 - - - - - - End of UBL meeting (AB3)
- 13:00 - 14:00 - - AdamPease -- "SUO / KIF Tutorial" (UBL Formalization Methodology Walkthrough / Demonstration ) (see: formalized ubl example: JoineryInvoiceInstance1, snippet worked on during this session and SUO-KIF manual) (AB4)
- 14:00 - 15:00 - - LeoObrst -- "Ontologies For Semantically Interoperable Systems" (postponed to the http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2004-01-15 Jan. 15, 2004 conference call] session) (AB5)
- 15:00 - 16:00 - - TimMcGrath -- "Document Engineering and UBL" (note that the linked presentation material is in the Open Office .sxi format) (AB6)
- 16:00 - 17:00 - - Wrap-up (AB7)
2003.11.08 (Saturday) (AB8)
- No activities can be planned for Saturday unless meeting facilities are located (AB9)
- probably no session on Saturday (ABA)
- however, if we really want to do it, we can have an ad hoc session at one of the Le Boulanger cafe's where PeterYim has a hotspotzz wi-fi account. A small group (upto 6) can probably have lots of caffeine, good sandwiches, some fun and a fairly productive time; and even have internet access at the same time. (ABB)
Logistics (ABC)
- Speakers should be uploading their presentation material to: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/wip/temp-meeting-resource/for-nov03-f2f/ (See: upload details) (ABD)
- Attending Virtually (via voice conferencing) -- Call Information: (ABE)
- (ABF)
- Wed 2003-11-05 (ABG)
- 9:30am - 12:30pm -- Call-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada); Access Code: 031105# (ABH)
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm -- Call-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada); Access Code: 031105# (ABI)
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm -- Call-in Number: 1-866-839-8145 (toll free) or +1(865)524-6352 (international, paid call); Access Code: 5705229# (ABJ)
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm -- Call-in Number: 1-866-839-8145 (toll free) or +1(865)524-6352 (international, paid call); Access Code: 5705229# (ABK)
- Wed 2003-11-05 (ABG)
- (ABV)
- above times are in Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco time) (ABW)
- please refer to latest agenda updates. See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_Nov_2003#nid09 (ABX)
- Virtual attendees can view presentation material via the internet if the speakers/moderators have uploaded to the community shared workspace. One should be able to find them at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/wip/temp-meeting-resource/for-nov03-f2f/ (ABY)
- please call Peter Yim at 650-678-9308 if there is a problem with the connection (it is possible that I may shut down the conference line temporaily, if there is no one online; and will re-open it only when I get a call request on the phone. -ppy) (ABZ)
-- Please post your additions, thoughts, suggestions directly to the above. (kindly identify yourself for follow-up purposes) (AC0)
- init: PeterYim / 2003-08-28_1020 PDT - draft plan with UBL: KurtConrad / 2003-09-09 - concretize draft plan: PeterYim / KurtConrad 2003-10-09 - updated after the workshop: PeterYim / 2003-11-08 (AC1)