Dear Dr. Musen, (01)
Further to our discussion on 8/13/04, I thank you for your acceptance to
our invitation to speak at the Ontolog-Forum in the coming December. I
am writing to provide further details and some administrivia on the event. (02)
The date we both agreed on is the 2nd Thursday of December, which would
be Dec. 9, 2004 (please let me know quickly in case there is a problem
with this date). This will be a 1.5 to 2 hour event conducted in the
form of a virtual presentation of approx. 45 min. This will be over a
phone conference that is augmented by online presentation material. The
presentation will be followed by an open discussion of about 30 min.
This will be scheduled during our our regular weekly call on Thursdays,
1:30pm to 3:00pm (quite possibly extending to 3:30pm) Eastern Time (03)
As mentioned, the other [ontolog] co-conveners and I are looking towards
bringing some of our activities at [ontolog] to more closely align with
the activities of standards groups and R&D communities in the semantic
technology space. Your talking to the group and affording us a chance to
have an open dialog would be most helpful towards that end. (04)
I shall look forward to receiving from you, at your convenience
(hopefully between now and one month before the event): (05)
(a) a short biographic sketch of yourself. In addition, if you can
provide (links to) slightly more extended bio/intro of you and your
work, that would be even better. It would be fine if you just supply the
URL's to these material (if something appropriate is already available
online), (06)
(b) a recent picture of yours (about 150x150 pixels, in png, jpg or gif
format), (07)
(c) a title of your talk, and (08)
(d) an abstract of your talk (anywhere from a few sentences to a couple
of paragraphs will do). (09)
Once I get the above, I will start circulating the information among the
community, so that people could mark their calendars and plan to attend. (010)
Closer to the time, I will coordinate with you on getting your
powerpoint or other presentation material online, so that they could be
accessed virtually during the talk. During the talk, you will be in
control of a shared screen server (a VNC server) that will allow you to
run powerpoint, a web browser or even other applications (e.g. you may
want to run Protégé during the talk; but we may need some prior
coordination if you need such support). The display screen from the VNC
server will be shared by all virtual attendees during the event. (011)
For your reference, please feel free to check out the wiki pages of
similar recent presentations, like the ones given by Steve Ray of NIST
(see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_02_12),
or one the by Brand Niemann on e-Government (see
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_04_22). They
should provide some clue to the format of our monthly invited speaker
event. However, do feel free to conduct your presentation any way you
feel like (let me know, though, if you expect it to be quite different,
so that I can work on providing the support you need.). (012)
Additionally, we have been recording (some, so far, since this is still
a volunteer effort; but the intent is to do it for all) our presentation
sessions and make the streaming audio available online, along with the
presentation material. May I, on behalf of ontolog, request your
permission to do so. Please refer to our IPR policy at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl#nid036 that will be applicable. (013)
Once again, thank you very much for agreeing to speak, and to having a
dialog with our community. I shall look forward to the event, and to
collaborating with you in the future. Feel free to contact the
undersigned if there is any question. (014)
Sincerely,
PPY (015)
Peter P. Yim (650-578-9998)
[ontolog] forum, co-convener
http://ontolog.cim3.net
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