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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Idea for a topic for future Ontolog session(s)
To: Mark Schildhauer <schild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Krishna Sinha <pitlab@xxxxxx>, "Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx>,
Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> (02)
No problem, Mark. We'll definitely keep you in the loop. Have a good trip! (03)
Regards. =ppy
-- (04)
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Mark Schildhauer <schild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Peter, Krishna and Leo--
>
> I'm sorry I won't be able to attend today's telecon as I'll be traveling.
> Will check out the notes on the website!
>
> cheers,
> Mark (05)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: Idea for a topic for future Ontolog session(s)
To: Krishna Sinha <pitlab@xxxxxx>, Mark Schildhauer
<schild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx>, Gary
Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx>, Krzysztof Janowicz
<jano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dalia Varanka <dvaranka@xxxxxxxx>, Nancy Wiegand
<wiegand@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Dean <mdean@xxxxxxx>, "Li, Naicong"
<naicong_li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pascal Hitzler
<pascal.hitzler@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> (06)
Good idea, Krishna ... I am adding Mark Schildhauer to this conversation now.
Will you be available to join us at the call tomorrow, Mark? (context
below in the thread.) =ppy (07)
Dear ALL, (08)
Thanks for prompt feedback from all who have responded, looks like our
planning session should best be done tomorrow. (09)
This is the call details for tomorrow's call: (010)
= Planning a mini-series at the Ontolog Forum on EarthCube related topics = (011)
Date/Time: Thu 2012.06.21 - starting 12:30pm EDT / 9:30am PDT
Duration: a 1.0 to1.5-hour telecon (012)
Dial-in:
Phone (US): +1 (206) 402-0100 ... PIN: 141184#
Skype: joinconference ... PIN: 141184#
(for Skype users: the Skype Dial pad can be found
under the "Call" dropdown menu as "Show Dial pad") (013)
Expecting: everyone on this message routing. ... (014)
RSVP (if you can't make it to this call, but would want to participate
in organizing this series of activities) ... otherwise talk to you
then! (015)
Regards. =ppy (016)
Peter P. Yim
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PeterYim
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Krishna Sinha <pitlab@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I can manage an hour at 12.30 tomorrow. I would suggest adding Mark
> Schildhauer <schild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to this list of participants as many of
> the eco-informatics ontologies they are working with are very relevant to
> the Geosciences.
> Krishna
> ---
> A.Krishna Sinha
> Professor of Geology
> 4044 Derring Hall
> Virginia Tech
> Blacksburg, VA 24060
> USA
>
> *** *** office
> *** *** cell
> *** *** fax (018)
> At 09:26 AM 6/20/2012, Peter Yim wrote:
>
> Dear Krishna, Leo and All,
>
>
> Sounds great! ... Maybe we can have a planning-session (say, a 1.0 to
> 1.5-hour telecon) some time soon, to put a working plan together for
> this potential collaboration.
>
> How about, options:
>
> (a) tomorrow Thu 2012.06.21 - starting 12:30pm EDT / 9:30am PDT, or
>
> (b) Thursday week 2012.06.28 - starting 12:30pm EDT / 9:30am PDT
>
> All on this message routing are invited. I have added Naicong and
> Pascal to the conversation as well (believe all names of individuals
> mentioned earlier are now in the routing.)
>
> ALL: Please indicate your availability for the two slots above (or
> suggest a couple, if neither one works) so we can decide on a time.
>
> I look forward to the collaboration.
>
>
> Best regards. =ppy
> -- (019)
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Krishna Sinha <pitlab@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Leo,
>> Thanks for including me in the thread. The point you make of highlighting
>> geoscience related ontologies is critical in developing a partnership
>> between Ontolog and EarthCube. As was stated many times at the recent
>> EarthCube meeting, the application of ontologies/semantics for building
>> and
>> supporting the infrastructure is a necessary goal for the future. Many of
>> my
>> Geoscience colleagues and I will be pleased to participate, and support
>> the
>> development of geoscience-oriented ontologies.
>> Let me know if I can help,
>> Krishna (020)
>> At 02:16 AM 6/20/2012, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:
>>
>> Sure, I think it would be a great idea, maybe to have a joint
>> Ontolog/EarthCube set of talks, since Ontolog is an open collaborative
>> community and EarthCube is an emerging one. And efforts such as SOCoP and
>> OOR make have some impact. I've cc-ed Krishna Sinha on this thread too,
>> since Krishna is largely coordinating/organizing the Semantics and
>> Ontologies group of EarthCube.
>>
>> Perhaps even a couple of devoted sessions of panels on
>> ontologies/geo-science, and related topics. That way, the Ontolog
>> community
>> can learn more about EarthCube, and EarthCube can learn more about
>> Ontolog,
>> and its community of practice developed over the past 10+ years.
>>
>> Krishna, what do you think of the idea?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leo
>> _____________________________________________
>> Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics
>> lobrst@xxxxxxxxx Information Discovery & Understanding, Command &
>> Control Cntr
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: peter.yim@xxxxxxxxx [ mailto:peter.yim@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter
>> Yim
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 9:08 PM
>> To: Gary Berg-Cross; Krzysztof Janowicz
>> Cc: Obrst, Leo J.; Dalia Varanka; Nancy Wiegand; Mike Dean; Peter Yim
>> Subject: Re: Idea for a topi for future Ontolog session(s)
>>
>> Thank you, Gary and Krzysztof, I am always supportive of advancing
>> the state-of-the-art and the adoption of ontology and semantic
>> technologies (as outlined in the Ontolog Charter.)
>>
>> I've had previous communications with Naicong Li too (partly in regard
>> to the Ontolog-NASA/JPL collaboration back in early 2008 relating
>> Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support, when RobRaskin
>> was involved too, then.)
>>
>> Since Ontolog is somehow represented at EarthCube with LeoObrst's
>> involvement, let me pull Leo into this conversation (since his name
>> came to mind, being part of the Ontolog leadership.)
>>
>> I was at Cliff Jacob's EarthCube talk (at NITRD on earlier today;
>> DaliaVaranka was there too.) It does look like that NSF is very proud
>> of the "community driven" nature of the EarthCube activities and the
>> outcome that has transpired so far. I definite want to make sure
>> Ontolog will be seen as being a help to that, and I shall rely on Leo
>> (who straddles both communities) to point us in the right direction. I
>> am also copying NancyWiegand and MikeDean too, to sought their opinion
>> as well (since they are involved in EarthCube too, and they co-lead,
>> respectively, the SOCoP-INTEROP and the OOR initiatives, that are in
>> the picture as well.)
>>
>> Regards. =ppy
>> -- (022)
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Krzysztof Janowicz <jano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> She has a semantic-enabled and ontology-driven Web portal called the SDS
>>> Knowledge Portal.
>>>
>>>
>>> We have a paper about the system, see: Li, N., Raskin, R., Goodchild, M.,
>>> and Janowicz, K. (2012): An Ontology-Driven Framework and Web Portal for
>>> Spatial Decision Support. Transactions in GIS, 16(3), pp. 313-329.
>>>
>>> http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/SDSOntologiesAndPortalFinalDraft.pdf
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jano
>>> --
>>> Krzysztof Janowicz
>>>
>>> Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>> 5806 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
>>>
>>> Email: jano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Webpage: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/
>>> Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net (023)
>>> On 06/19/2012 01:26 PM, Gary Berg-Cross wrote:
>>>
>>> Peter,
>>>
>>> One of the ideas I had from the EarthCube workshop was to develop a
>>> series
>>> of talks on some of the ontology-related topics
>>> that came up. Between Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz and myself we
>>> might be able to come up with a series of talks that
>>> would be of interest to the Ontolg community and advance the ball for
>>> EarthCube.
>>>
>>> One specific one that could be in that series or could be done earlier is
>>> the work of Naicong Li at Redland University in CA.
>>>
>>> She presented tat EarthCube.
>>>
>>> She has a semantic-enabled and ontology-driven Web portal called the SDS
>>> Knowledge Portal.
>>> You can see it at the link: http://www.spatial.redlands.edu/sds/
>>>
>>> The SDS ontologies themsleves are the result of collaborative work of the
>>> group called the SDS Consortium
>>> with many good people attached
>>> see http://www.spatial.redlands.edu/sds/consortium/
>>> For the session Naicong and some of them might discuss how they went
>>> about
>>> developing the ontologies as well as demoing the Portal.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Below is Naicong's contact info. If this sounds interesting I'd be glad
>>> to
>>> help develop this into a session or at least get some chairs for it.
>>>
>>> ______________________________
>>>
>>> Naicong Li, Ph.D.
>>> Redlands Institute, University of Redlands
>>> 1200 East Colton Avenue, PO Box 3080, Redlands, CA 92373-0999
>>> Email: naicong_li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Phone: *** ***
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards--
>>> Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.
>>> gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GaryBergCross
>>> NSF INTEROP Project
>>> http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0955816
>>> SOCoP Executive Secretary
>>> Knowledge Strategies
>>> Potomac, MD
>>> *** *** (024)
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