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To: "Jeanne Holm" <jeanne.holm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: OKMDS Organizing Committee <okmds-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, olivam@xxxxxxxxx, charles.p.white@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Daria Topousis <daria.e.topousis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tomas Soderstrom <tomas.j.soderstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, jayne.dutra@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: "Peter Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:47:36 -0800
Message-id: <af8f58ac0801151147s51ed4f4r34eb6c990314972b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jeanne et al.,    (01)

Thank you very much.    (02)

Can I have all the slide deck by non tomorrow (2008.01.16-12:00pm PST), please.    (03)

Thanks & regards.  =ppy
--    (04)


On Jan 15, 2008 10:53 AM, Jeanne Holm <jeanne.holm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all--
>
>
> Here's how it's looking to shape up.   Jayne--would you be available to do a
> 30 minute presentation on the NASA Taxonomy?  If not, we could expand the SL
> piece with some speakers from GSFC or Ames.  Daria and Charley--can one of
> you provide SL in world support?
>
>
>
> Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge Sharing
>
>
> How does the way in which organizations organize and share their knowledge
> affect the way in which people have conversations and drive dialogue?
> Traditionally, architects design buildings that create spaces for
> conversation--meeting rooms, offices, conference centers.  This session
> explores how have these methods been translated into the information
> environment and how community physical spaces can be viewed to understand
> how knowledge flows within a city.  Understanding how that information space
> is created in an organization through ontologies and taxonomies that drive
> people in certain directions for decision making and discussion is the focus
> of another topic.  Bringing these two ideas together into the idea of
> creating virtual physical spaces that help citizens engage with government,
> participate in a rocket launch, and support the mission of NASA will be
> explored in looking at NASA's experience in Second Life over the last two
> years.
>
> "Reasoning on Dynamically Built Space Ontology with forms/shapes that
> support/expand ideas and collaboration:  A Form Space Driven Environment for
> Complex Adaptive System Architecture"--Dr. Marcela Oliva, Los Angeles Trade
> Technical College
>
>
> Understanding the NASA Taxonomy--Jayne Dutra, JPL TBD
>
>
> Creating Conversations in Virtual Worlds--Jeanne Holm and Tom Soderstrom,
> JPL
>
>
> Session Chair:  Jeanne Holm, NASA/JPL
>
>
> --Jeanne    (05)


> Hi all--
>
>
> Just FYI, I do need to try to put together a panel to replace our earlier
> Organizing Science Knowledge that has slipped to March 20.
>
>
> Marcela has offered (see below), and what I'd like to do is organize the
> topic around "Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge
> Sharing"
>
>
> Charlotte and Charley and Tom--I think you'd particularly have some
> interesting things to talk about here.  Charlotte--perhaps the work in
> Constellation?  Tom or Charley--how having virtual spaces creates
> conversation (I can help there as well)?  Jayne--how the organization of
> information drives knowledge sharing along certain lines?
>
>
> It would be for this Thursday from 10-12 PST.  Thanks for a quick RSVP one
> way or the other.  I'm also open to other suggestions if you have them!
>
>
> --Jeanne    (06)


> From: Oliva, Marcela
>  Sent: Tue 08/01/2008 03:13 PM
>  To: Jeanne Holm; Charlotte.Linde-1@xxxxxxxx; Richard.Keller@xxxxxxxx;
> jayne.dutra@xxxxxxxxxxxx; charles.p.white@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Tomas Soderstrom;
> Robert.G.Raskin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Cc: andrew.schain@xxxxxxxx
>  Subject: RE: Potential speaking opportunity for KM and Ontologies and
> Knowledge space
>
> Hi Jeanne:
>
> I will be happy to prepare a presentation for
>
> "Reasoning on Dynamically Built
>
> Space Ontology with forms/shapes that support/expand ideas and
> collaboration"
>
> A Form Space Driven Environment for Complex Adaptive System Architecture    (07)


> -----------------
> Hi--
>
>  I'd like to take you all up on your positive responses to make a
> presentation to this team.  We have three opportunities for speaking to the
> group:  January 17, February 21, and March 20
>
>  January 17:  Organizing Science Knowledge, Rich Keller and Rob Raskin....I
> had set this up tentatively, but it looks to be a bad date for Rich, so I'm
> open to another option for this date...
>
>  February 21:  Decisions within the Federal Government, Giora Hadar, Izja
> Lederhendler, from the Federal KM Working Group
>
>  Since the January 17 date is bad for Rich (and he's out of the office for a
> while), would it be possible to pull together a presentation for January 17
> and move Rich and Rob to March 20 (if that works)?  One option is to do the
> talk on virtual spaces that Charlotte and Marcela have been talking about.
> Any thoughts?
>
>  --Jeanne    (08)


>  Hi--
>
>  Andy Schain and I are working with Peter Yim (Ontolog Group) to create a
> series of talks on using KM and ontologies collaboratively for decision
> support, with NASA as the case study at the center of the conversation.
> We're taking a future oriented approach, concurrently holding meetings in
> Second Life for maximum participation and including the idea of "space"
> (physical, virtual, or information space) shaping the conversations that
> arise.  I wanted to give you all a sneak peak at our draft charter and see
> if you'd be interested in participating and help me identify others who
> would be interested.
>
>  The meetings are Thursdays from 10-11 PST, and you could attend those that
> are of interest.  Also, I think each of you would have something to share in
> a specific presentation to the group over the 6 months of the series.
>
>  The audience comprises two very large groups, the Federal KM Working Group
> (>500 people) and the Ontolog group (very large as well).  It will be an
> open forum though, and I'll include the NASA KM and IDM teams as well.  This
> will give us a broader audience to bounce ideas for the IDM and Knowledge
> Architecture activities as well.
>
>  Let me know if you are interested (time permitting for at least occasional
> participation) and who else might be good to invite.  Also, if you have
> feedback on the charter, let me know.
>
>  --Jeanne
>
>  P.S.  Marcela and Charlotte--note you are both copied on this message :-)    (09)

>  -----------------------
>  DRAFT CHARTER
>
>  Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKDMS): Making
>  Better Decisions
>
>   This six month virtual mini-series will open up dialogue and discovery at
>   the promising intersection of Ontology and Knowledge Development and the
>  role of both in decision support.
>
>   The NASA Mission of "Space Exploration" applied in its most expansive
>  form, serves as the inspiration for this series.  The need to effectively
>  administer "knowledge space" to yield meaningful connections that are
>  scalable and sustainable is a strategic challenge of all institutions,
>   whether that knowledge resides primarily within, outside, or across an
>  institution's span of control. Furthermore, the knowledge space must be
>  integrated with institutional
>  processes for policy making and development so that their effect on
>  decisions is fundamental rather than incidental.
>
>   As the famed architect, Louis Kahn noted, "Architecture is the thoughtful
>  making of space."
>
>   In this series, we'll explore how Enterprise Architecture (using Ontology
>  and Knowledge Management) is the thoughtful making of space...a space with
>  the tensile integrity needed by disparate institutions to create conducive
>  conditions for emergence of the collective scientific and engineering
>   knowledge needed for future space... where all humanity can thrive.
>
>  We'll explore how Ontology and Knowledge Management, working in concert,
> "make space" to accommodate difference at multiple levels and contexts. In
>  this emerging  space, both individuals and institutions can more easily
>   distill knowledge from complexity and make policies and decisions using
>  knowledge based processes.
>
>   In addition, we'll explore how to combine at least three scaffolding
>  approaches for the integrated and agile "build-out" of knowledge needed:
>  community (structured bottom-up), folksonomy (unstructured bottom-up) and
>   ontology (structured top-down).
>
>   The virtual seminar and panel discussion events will be offered
>  concurrently in a real world "space" as augmented conference calls and a
>  virtual world "space, Second Life.
>   NASA will provide orientation to Second Life as the mini-series gets
>  underway.   The announcement and online discourse will be cross-posted to
>  [ontolog-forum] <ontolog-forum-at-ontolog.cim3.net and
>  [kmgov]<kmgov-at-list.jpl.nasa.gov.
>
>   Questions:
>   1.How can we explore the intersection of Ontology and Knowledge
>  Management and Decision Support to define  promising collaborations among
>  them?
>   2. How do we help people working with our organization o discover useful
>  knowledge?
>  3. How can we structure information for decision support (both known and
>  serendipitious inquiry)?  Conversely, how can we structure decision making
> processes to take maximum
>  advantage of knowledge?
>   4. What are the ontologies to prioritize for scientific exchange?
>   5. How does the use of semantic technologies draw these fields closer and
>  support better knowledge discovery and better decision and policy making?
>   6.How could "simulation-scripting" exercises in virtual worlds accelerate
>  the development and sustained use of ontologies in the real world?
>   7. How might these "simulation-scaffold" ontologies, in turn, improve the
>  pace and complexity of learning associated with large-scale "modeling
>  event" scenarios that are anticipated in virtual world settings?
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>  --
>
>
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