All,
I think it boils down to the question that I asked at the end of my last email: (01)
> 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. (02)
I did not quite get the reaction to my last email that I was hoping for. So let
me again encourage all of you: Please consider volunteering. If you can't,
contact people who you think might want to volunteer. If we don't find
somebody, I don't think we should go forward. (03)
Best wishes (and happy Hanukkah)
Fabian (04)
On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Galton, Antony wrote: (05)
> Leo,
>
> 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.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Antony
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[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
>
> Thanks, Fabian, Antony, and Stefano.
>
> The following are some thoughts, suggestions only.
>
> I suggest at least some of our next steps are, in priority order:
>
> 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.
>
> If you are considering a theme, would be good to briefly suggest that now.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.)?
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[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
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> ________________________________________
>
> 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.
> ________________________________________
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Best
> Fabian
>
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Stefano Borgo wrote:
>
>> 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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