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Dear Monica, (01)
Further to the earlier discussions at Ontolog conference calls, I would
like to thank you, on behalf of the community, for accepting our
invitation to speak at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday May 12, 2005, on a
relevant topics you feel appropriate for our membership. I am writing to
provide further details and some administrivia on the event (most of
which, you are already aware, anyway). (02)
This session will be a 1.5 to 2 hour virtual event. The session will
start with about 10~15 minutes for introductions and for getting
everyone settled in. Your virtual presentation of approximately 45
minutes will follow. After that, there will be an open discussion for
about 30 minutes (or more, if necessary, and as time permits). This
will be over a phone conference, augmented by online presentation
material. The time of the session will be scheduled for 11:30am to
1:00pm (quite possibly extending to 1:30pm) Mountain Daylight Time. (03)
The [ontolog] community engages in the learning, discourse and
development and application of domain ontologies (especially those
related to eBusiness), is trying to advance the development and
application of ontological engineering and semantic technologies (see
our charter at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB ), and is
facilitating their move into the mainstream standards. Your talking to
our group and affording us a chance to have an open dialog with you
along those lines will be most appreciated. (04)
I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your
earliest convenience (hopefully on/before Apr. 26): (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 the 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) the 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 (say, by May 3, although this is not a hard
deadline), please send me: (011)
(e) your presentation material* (in powerpoint, pdf, sxi, html, jpg, png
or some common electronic format) so that I can post it online for
access during the session. (012)
During the talk, you will be in control of a shared screen server (a VNC
server) that will allow you to run your presentation slides, a web
browser or even other applications (if you do need to run other
applications, please provide me with more details because we may need
some prior coordination to make it happen). The display screen from the
VNC server will be shared by all virtual attendees during the event. (013)
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
the one by Chris Welty on OntoClean (see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_11_18). They
should provide some clue as to the format of our monthly invited speaker
events. 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.) We will be
creating a wiki page for your session after we have received the above
((a) thru (d) input from you), at which point, you are encouraged to
post additional relevant resources (papers, links, references, ... etc.)
to support your presentation. (014)
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 archived audio file available online, along with
the presentation material. May I, on behalf of the Ontolog Forum,
request your permission to do so. Please refer to our IPR policy at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32 that will be
applicable. I will assume that is acceptable to you unless I hear from
you otherwise. (015)
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 to
your continued contribution to Ontolog in the future. Feel free to
contact the undersigned if there is any question. (016)
Sincerely,
PPY (017)
Peter P. Yim
[ontolog-forum], co-convener
http://ontolog.cim3.net
Phone: (650) 578-9998 (018)
P.S. *Please note that: in preparing your powerpoint (or other
presentation material), try to avoid using any animation or transitions,
as they do not work very well over the real-time shared-screen platform,
which we employ to allow the audience to be in sync with you on your
slide presentation. -ppy
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