Dear all, (01)
I apologize for the delay and am now back in Muenster, ready to move
the summer school forward. Thanks to everybody for their support of a
joint IAOA-Vespucci event. I hope we can quickly settle the most
important issues and then proceed to advertise. (02)
I am addressing this message to the iaoa-education mailing list plus
the individuals who participated in the discussions so far. Those who
would like to be on the subcommittee organizing the summer school,
please let me know. Organizational emails will then be limited to this
subcommittee. I took the liberty to add John Bateman to the list, who
has previously expressed interest. (03)
The first issue to resolve is the following: The European Commission
(through its Joint Research Center) has supported Vespucci summer
institutes for many years and is ready to do so again in 2011.
Essentially, they pay for the site, which may or may not include
lunches (an issue to be discussed later). This is a great deal, though
there are two strings attached:
1. a lengthy process to pick the site (in Tuscany, as proposed),
requiring bids from multiple competitors
2. a preference for a topic that links to JRC research (which is
mainly targeting INSPIRE, the European infrastructure for spatial
information). (04)
With (1), we have nothing to do, except to tell them our preferred
dates. Thus, I suggest we first and foremost discuss the length and
timing of the school. (05)
With (2), we may not be too constrained after all, as long as we find
a twist to the topic that is relevant to environmental information.
This could simply be "Environmental Ontology" (a topic that is dear to
non-geographic communities as well, for example biologists or
physicists). Or it could be "Process Ontology" or anything else. (06)
Of course, we can opt out of JRC support, though they have the money
in their budget already. If we go for it, my questions to you all are: (07)
ad 1: what weeks should be avoided in the previously discussed
June-July window? On my list are, so far:
- June 6-11 (the other Vespucci week in 2011, on Volunteered
Geographic Information)
- June 13-18 (the week following Whitsunday, also the week of the
Geoinformatics conference at Muenster)
- June 27 - July 2nd (the planned dates for the EC INSPIRE conference) (08)
ad 2: would "environmental" or "process" be acceptable modifiers for
ontology? Are there better ideas? (09)
Finally, regarding length, I have taken note of (and share) the
concerns against 2 full weeks, but also of the option to add 2 or 3
days of basics before a more in-depth week. We have often run 8-9 day
events, where the weekend before a regular Vespucci institute was a
"specialist meeting" on the topic (that is, even more in depth). It
would be an interesting idea to use the weekend for establishing
basics instead. So, my third question is whether this is desirable or
whether we go only Sunday night to Saturday morning. (010)
So much for today. I still owe you some background on Vespucci and its
style, which I will provide in a separate mail. (011)
kind regards
Werner (012)
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Nicola Guarino <guarino@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I think that Leo's list of steps is pretty good. What's important
>now is to start working, aiming at having a concrete draft proposal by mid
>October, I would say. I think we should plan for an early announcement to the
>world in early November, followed by an official call for participation around
>the end of January. Let's put the approval of this plan in today's agenda,
>especially concerning:
>
> - the school's name: IAOA Summer School in Applied Ontology
> - the organizational chair: Werner Kuhn
> - the program chairs: Fabian Neuhaus and Antony Galton
>
> Best,
>
> Nicola
>
> On 14 Sep 2010, at 23:08, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:
>
>> Antony,
>>
>> I think our window is just June-July 2011, at this point.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leo
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Galton, Antony [mailto:A.P.Galton@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:23 PM
>> To: Obrst, Leo J.; IAOA Executive Council; Stefano Borgo
>> Cc: Fabian Neuhaus; Robert Hoehndorf (leechuck@xxxxxxxxxxx); Antony Galton
>(apgalton@xxxxxxxx); Werner Kuhn
>> Subject: RE: proposal about next steps: IAOA Summer School 2011
>>
>> Do we have dates for the summer school yet, or is this still to be decided?
>> Antony
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Obrst, Leo J. [lobrst@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 14 September 2010 19:58
>> To: IAOA Executive Council; Stefano Borgo
>> Cc: Fabian Neuhaus; Robert Hoehndorf (leechuck@xxxxxxxxxxx); Antony Galton
>(apgalton@xxxxxxxx); Werner Kuhn
>> Subject: proposal about next steps: IAOA Summer School 2011
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I think this is a good idea too, i.e., first 2 days of intro tutorials,
>second 3 days of advanced Vespucci-style courses. Do we think that relative
>beginners who take the tutorials will have enough of a background for the
>final 3 days? Perhaps this is not so important.
>>
>> Werner, are there any issues with making this a 2-part structure, with part
>1 optional? It means that there will two different costs.
>>
>> For next steps, I would suggest that we:
>> 1) Establish that the initial IAOA Summer School in Applied Ontology (or
>some other name -- suggestions?) will be at the Vespucci location in 2011, and
>invite participation from the membership in the organization/content of the
>summer school.
>> 2) Compose a description about IAOA summer schools, i.e., that they occur
>every 2 years, alternate with FOIS, and will be "traveling" events, meaning
>that they will be hosted at different locations across the world.
>> 3) Establish Werner as overall Summer School 2011 Organizational Chair (this
>is in addition to his more general role as Summer School sub-committee chair
>of the Education Committee). First steps probably will be to investigate
>further Vespucci requirements, set dates, and invite others to help organize.
>But Werner will provide guidance on these.
>> 4) Establish a Summer School 2011 Content Chair, possibly with Fabian and
>Antony as co-Chairs. First step probably will be to develop an initial list of
>content (both introductory and advanced), perhaps using the Ontology Summit
>2010 as a basis. But Fabian, Antony, and Werner will provide guidance on this.
>> 5) Establish a dedicated mailing list for the summer school, and perhaps
>establish periodic telecons -- dependent on the view of the organizational
>chair Werner, who will organize these.
>> 6) Once these details are established, develop a brief
>description/announcement about the summer school, and disseminate it to the
>IAOA and other email lists. This is probably decided and best done by the
>Summer School 2011 chairs, in collaboration with the IAOA EC.
>>
>> Also, initially, Stefano and I will participate as additional members of the
>Summer School 2011 committee. Also I invite others to participate. Once we
>settle on (1-5), we should open participation up to the membership, as soon as
>possible.
>>
>> Does this proposal sound reasonable to you all?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leo
>>
>> _____________________________________________
>> Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics
>> lobrst@xxxxxxxxx Information Discovery & Understanding, Command &
>Control Center
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: iaoa-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:iaoa-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Galton, Antony
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 5:29 AM
>> To: Stefano Borgo; IAOA Executive Council
>> Cc: Fabian Neuhaus; Robert Hoehndorf (leechuck@xxxxxxxxxxx); Antony Galton
>(apgalton@xxxxxxxx); Werner Kuhn
>> Subject: Re: [iaoa-council] Welcome, IAOA Education Committee chairs, and
>organization of IAOA Summer School 2011
>>
>> I quite like that idea.
>> Antony
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stefano Borgo [mailto:borgo@xxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 08 September 2010 10:16
>> To: IAOA Executive Council
>> Cc: Fabian Neuhaus; Werner Kuhn; Antony Galton (apgalton@xxxxxxxx); Robert
>Hoehndorf (leechuck@xxxxxxxxxxx)
>> Subject: Re: [iaoa-council] Welcome, IAOA Education Committee chairs, and
>organization of IAOA Summer School 2011
>>
>> ...
>>
>> What do you think about having the first 2 days for real beginners (intro to
>logic, definition of ontology, the notion of class, property, inheritance,
>instance-of, parthood, typical use cases and other initial stuff) and the real
>Vespucci style from the 3rd day?
>> Students may join the school from the first day or from the third day
>depending on their knowledge/interest...
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> (013)
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University of Muenster
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