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To: David Whitten <whitten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Richardson <rcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Richardson <rcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Whitten <david.whitten@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:53:03 -0700
Message-id: <4255575F.80106@xxxxxxxx>
Dear David and Chris,    (01)

Further to the earlier discussions at Ontolog conference calls, I would 
like to thank you both, on behalf of the community, for accepting our 
invitation to speak at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday June 16, 2005, on a 
relevant topics you feel appropriate for our membership. I am writing to 
provide further details and some administrivia on the event.    (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 10:30am to 
12:00noon (quite possibly extending to 12:30pm) Pacific Daylight Time.    (03)

The [ontolog] community engages in the learning, discourse and 
development and application of domain ontologies (eBusiness, health, ... 
etc.), 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. More recently, as 
you know, our community has pooled together an effort to try to 
contribute to the NHIN-RFI and related work. Your sharing the WorldVistA 
experience with us, especially where it will be relevant to the NHIN/EHR 
issues and to ontologies, will be a good candidate theme for your talk.    (04)

I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your 
earliest convenience (hopefully on/before May 31):    (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 June 8, 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. 
After I receive your presentation material, we will schedule a session 
so that I can walk you through the presentation controls and some of the 
relevant nuances that our virtual speaker(s) need to be aware of.    (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
--     (019)

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