Yes, I am happy for us to proceed in this way.
Antony
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Same here. Thanks a lot to Stefano and Claudio!
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On 29.12.2011, at 05:22, Fabian Neuhaus <fneuhaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: (04)
>
> I agree with all four points.
> Fabian
>
>
> On Dec 28, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:
>
>> Additional considerations:
>>
>> For future Summer Schools, let us think about actually having a Call
>> for Proposals for Hosting the IAOA Summer School. We might lean on
>> the mechanisms FOIS has evolved, to do this.
>>
>> Typically, at least in my experience, there is a General Chair, who
>> assists in the overall organization, etc. However, this is open for
>> discussion.
>>
>> But let's consider what our options are for the future. This is a
>> topic for both the EC and the Education Committee.
>>
>> For now, however, let us assist Stefano and Claudio as much as we can.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Leo
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ] On Behalf Of Obrst, Leo J.
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:36 PM
>> To: Stefano Borgo; IAOA Education Committee
>> Cc: Claudio Masolo; Nicola Guarino
>> Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento:
>> first considerations
>>
>> Stefano,
>>
>> I agree to this. Thanks to you and Claudio for taking this on.
>>
>> Let's hear from the Education Committee chairs.
>>
>> Best regards and Happy New Year,
>> Leo
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stefano Borgo [mailto:stefano.borgo@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:21 PM
>> To: IAOA Education Committee; Obrst, Leo J.
>> Cc: Claudio Masolo; Nicola Guarino
>> Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento:
>> first considerations
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Claudio and I discussed a bit the overall situation. We concluded
>> that things do not look good at all.
>> Several decisions need to be taken quickly and we do not have
>> experience about this kind of events.
>>
>> Said that, we are available to take charge of the organization, by
>> this we include both logistics and content (since the Ed. Committee
>> is asking for volunteers on both these aspects).
>> More precisely, we are willing to work out a first (rough) proposal
>> about the local organization, the budget and the school format with
>> suggestions about courses/lecturers (at least to some extent).
>> The Ed. Committee should then meet to discuss the proposal and
>> suggest adjustments/alternatives.
>> Discussing everything together from scratch would be ideal but we
>> are afraid it would take too much time...
>>
>> If the Ed. Committee agrees on the two of us taking up these roles
>> and on this way to proceed, then Claudio and I will start working on
>> it.
>>
>> Cheers
>> -Stefano and Claudio
>>
>>
>> On 23 Dec 2011, at 04:48, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Fabian and Antony. You've made your circumstances clear,
>>> and we understand your desire but lack of time to help organize the
>>> Summer School.
>>>
>>> To quickly resolve this issues, I think we should try to have a
>>> joint conversation in email, and possibly a telecon soon with
>>> Stefano and Claudio Masolo, the Trento local arrangements folks,
>>> and the Education Committee (Fabian, Antony, Werner, Robert,
>>> Michael, me) and any interested other EC members to hash out what
>>> is required to organize and support the IAOA Summer School 2012,
>>> and who can do it. We truly do need to publicize the Summer School
>>> very soon, if we are going to have one in 2012.
>>>
>>> Perhaps Stefano and Claudio are willing to take on the entire
>>> organization of the Summer School, i.e., act as both "conference"/
>>> general chairs and local arrangement chairs, much as Werner did
>>> this past year (with Vespucci organizational support). Stefano and
>>> Claudio, what are your thoughts about this?
>>>
>>> I can pledge my auxiliary support to assist as much as possible,
>>> but as the others, I have very limited time to devote to this. In
>>> addition, I cannot be physically present at the Summer School,
>>> unfortunately. And really, the general chairs of the Summer School
>>> should be physically present.
>>>
>>> All, please let us know your thoughts about these issues.
>>>
>>> Also, if we cannot resolve these issues in email, please suggest
>>> possible candidate days/times for a joint telecon (probably via
>>> Skype) soon, next week if possible, at which we might resolve these
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> Thanks much,
>>> Leo
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> ] On Behalf Of Fabian Neuhaus
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:34 PM
>>> To: IAOA Education Committee
>>> Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento:
>>> first considerations
>>>
>>> All,
>>> I think it boils down to the question that I asked at the end of my
>>> last email:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Best wishes (and happy Hanukkah)
>>> Fabian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Galton, Antony wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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