OntologySummit2007: OntologySummit2007_Process proposal-1 (draft) (U5D)
First proposed: PeterYim / 2007.02.14 (U5E)
A 4-Step Process (U5H)
- 1. Summit participants ("conveners") are dispersed into 'teams' (constituencies [1]), each representing major communities within the broader ontology community space (U5I)
- we can use a survey[2] to help identify which team an individual participant is affiliated with (U5J)
- an analysis of the survey results can also provide clues as to whether we have balanced representation in different constituencies, and if not, remedial 'recruitment' actions may be taken (U5K)
- a participant can choose to be in more than one team (U5L)
- each team is encourage to elect a champion to help coordinate and track progress (this is optional, though) (U5M)
- 2. Each constituency will: (U5N)
- identify the context (vantage point) from which their inputs are derived; there may be needs to create further subdivisions. (For example: if "Biomedical informatics practitioners" is one such constituency, and it turns out that that the "bio-informaticists" and the medical-informaticists" don't share the same vocabularies, then they may want to subdivide and collect inputs for each of these sub-teams. (U5O)
- (each team) or each sub-team will come up with the gloss for what do they mean when they use the term "ontology" (U5P)
- identify other ontology-related terms that is in their constituency's common vocabulary, (U5Q)
- identify conspicuous ontology (or ontology-like) artifacts [3] within their constituency (U5U)
- the above is discovered through dialog over the [ontology-summit] discussion forum, aided (where necessary) by the survey [2] and continuously summarized and synthesized and posted to the wiki to keep all participants in sync. (U5V)
- 3. (U5W)