Leo, (01)
I think the main priority is to determine who is going to take the overall lead
on this. As Fabian reiterated in his last email, neither he nor I are going to
be in a position to take this on. I can't speak for Fabian, but I have a very
busy teaching term next term and also have a substantial load as Director of
Education for Maths and Computer Science at Exeter, on top of which there are
several papers I want to write - including two which I am already committed to,
with firm deadlines ... I don't think I would be in a position to take the lead
on the Summer School, even with plenty of support from the local organisers
etc. I would be happy to have some involvement with the process, it's just
that I need to be able to bow out when the pressure of all this other work
dictates. (02)
Best wishes (03)
Antony (04)
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[mailto:iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Obrst, Leo J.
Sent: 18 December 2011 23:51
To: IAOA Education Committee; Stefano Borgo
Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento: first
considerations (05)
Thanks, Fabian, Antony, and Stefano. (06)
The following are some thoughts, suggestions only. (07)
I suggest at least some of our next steps are, in priority order: (08)
1) Frame an announcement, which will describe roughly what the Summer School
will be about, i.e., the broad outlines of topics, tentative structure (as you
have), proposed registration opening and closing dates, requirements for
registering (i.e., not administrative, but geared toward which audiences,
prerequisites if any, etc.), potential for students and other scholars to
receive grants (if IAOA can provide this: Laure?), and differentiating points
(i.e., to distinguish the IAOA Summer School in Applied Onotology from say, the
ontology engineering/Semantic Web summer school, and others (ESSLLI or NASSLI
2012), etc. These are just suggestions; do what you think is good. (09)
If you are considering a theme, would be good to briefly suggest that now. (010)
2) Designate one or more folks who will be publicity people to get this and
subsequent announcements out. Which distribution lists should these go to?
Might be one of you or others. (011)
3) Direct the local arrangements folks in Trento as to what facilities,
schedule, accommodations, etc., you think you will need. This is a dialog. My
guess is that the Trento folks (Stefano, Nicola, others) will already know the
answers to most questions, and will make suggestions. Draw on the entire IAOA
EC experience to help you. (012)
4) Plan a rough schedule: when should announcements go out (initial, 2nd, 3rd
Call for Partipation/registration; when applications should be received [What
info?] and whether grant or travel support is needed, etc. What is the deadline
for applications? (013)
5) Identify tutorial teachers, how do you want them to frame the content, and
so ask them to provide? If there is a theme, suggest informally how the theme
could be addressed, etc. (014)
6) Get commitments from the tutorial teachers. Will they teach? Can they
provide their material by a particular date, in a particular format (for
printing, electronic forms, etc.)? (015)
I'm sure I've missed others. These are just suggestions. However, another
suggestion is that a first Call For Participation is made very soon, i.e.,
this month or very early Jan, 2012. (016)
Thanks,
Leo (017)
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[mailto:iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fabian Neuhaus
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 1:09 AM
To: IAOA Education Committee; Stefano Borgo
Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento: first
considerations (018)
Stefano, thank you very much for helping out with the local organization of the
summer school. This is great! From my perspective July 16-20 is fine.
Unfortunately, I personally might not be able to leave the US because of
immigration issues. (019)
All, Antony and I have exchanged ideas over the weekend. One of the things we
need to do asap is to nail down the content of the summer school. Antony and I
came up with an outline of a schedule. Following the results of the Ontology
Summit on Education, we assumed that even a summer school for novices should
involve a lot of hands on experience. So, we (roughly) split each day into a
morning session where new content is presented and an afternoon session where
the knowledge is applied. Since one result of the Summit was that many people
feel they lack the formal logic background to understand the semantics of KR
languages, so we dedicated two session on the introduction KR languages. We
further suggest that the students spend days 3-4 mainly in teams with the task
of developing some small ontology on some topic to determined by the teachers. (020)
________________________________________ (021)
Outline:
July 16th: Morning: (a) What is an ontology? (b) introduction to KR
language(s) I (e.g., FOL)
Afternoon: students practice the use of the KR language(s) by formalizing toy
examples
July 17th: Morning: Lecture: (a) KR languages II (e.g., OWL) (b)
How to go about building an ontology?
Afternoon: exercises that involve the building of toy ontologies July 18th:
Morning: Background information and general directions that the students need
to create their ontology.
If more than one KB language was introduced, then students need to decide
which language they want to use.
Afternoon: Students develop their own ontology (in groups).
July 19th: Morning: Group discussion: problems encountered during development /
lessons learned / teachers might need to provide extra information
Afternoon: Students continue to develop their own ontology July 20th: Morning:
Students present their results. Conclusions.
Afternoon: Travel.
________________________________________ (022)
What do you think? Note that Antony and I did not try to go into details,
because we think that the people who are actually going to make the summer
school happen will have to change it anyhow to meet their needs. (023)
Which brings me to the other point. As you all know, Werner did a great job
at organizing the summer school this year. (Thank you again,
Werner!) Since organizing such an event is a lot of work, he understandably
does not want to be actively involved this year.
Unfortunately, neither Antony nor I will have the necessary time to take on the
leadership. So the question is whether either of you would be willing to do so,
or know somebody who would be interested. (024)
Best
Fabian (025)
On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Stefano Borgo wrote: (026)
> Dear all,
>
> in Trento we have gathered information about the organization of the
> IAOA summer school with a target of about 50 students.
> We did not find particular problems and identified the period July
> 16-20 as most suitable.
>
> Here are some options to reach Graz by train traveling on Fri 20 / Sat
> 21
>
> Trento-Graz (about 10 hrs)
> Fr, 20.07.12 dep 18:00 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 07:00 Sa, 21.07.12 dep 08:05
> Sa, 21.07.12 arr 18:33 Sa, 21.07.12 dep 11:52 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 21:45
> Sa, 21.07.12 dep 12:00 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 22:23
>
> Pls, let us know if the period is ok and if we should proceed with the
> organization.
>
> Cheers
> -Stefano
>
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