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[ontolog-admin] Re: Ontolog Invited Speaker - Professor James Hendler -

To: Jim Hendler <hendler@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Musen <musen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-admin]" <ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:24:06 -0700
Message-id: <42B82306.7070608@xxxxxxxx>
Jim,    (01)

Marvelous idea! Look forward to that.    (02)

As soon as I get items (a) thru (d) from you, I will be set up 
the session page on our wiki, and start circulating this among 
the community. I'm sure people will be excited about the session.    (03)

Thanks & regards.  =ppy
--    (04)


Jim Hendler wrote Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:09:02 -0400:
> Peter - first let me confirm date and time are fine - I'll look forward 
> to it.
> 
> Second, a number of your members have seen my talks at egov and Swans, 
> or will attend JCIS or XML 2005 where I'll be speaking, and also I think 
> there are some questions of interest to people in your community (What 
> to do with FEA DRM, the role of upper ontologies, etc.) that I am often 
> asked, so it seems like my giving a 45 min "talk" at the beginning might 
> not be the best use of time -- how about if I prepared just some simple 
> opening statements, and we made it primarily a Q/A session (Sort of like 
> a panel, but with only one panelist :-)) - my instinct people would get 
> more out of this, and it might draw more people to an August meeting...  
> If that works, we could bill this as something like "Semantic Web Q & A" 
> and I'll write an "abstract" to fit
>  what do you think?
>  JH    (05)


> At 21:32 -0700 6/20/05, Peter P. Yim wrote:
> 
>> Dear Professor Hendler,
>>
>> Further to your confirmation with Professor Mark Musen, I would like 
>> to thank you, on behalf of the community, for accepting our invitation 
>> to speak at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday August 11, 2005, on a 
>> relevant topics you feel appropriate for our membership. I am writing 
>> to provide further details and some administrivia on the event.
>>
>> 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 
>> 12:00pm (quite possibly extending to 12:30pm) Pacific Daylight Time.
>>
>> The [ontolog] community engages in the learning, discourse and 
>> development of domain ontologies, is trying to advance the adoption 
>> and application of ontological engineering approaches 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. As we are 
>> trying to get our community to get more familiar with OWL and other 
>> related W3C 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.
>>
>> I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your 
>> earliest convenience (hopefully on/before July 11):
>>
>> (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.) Feel free to update your namesake page on the 
>> Ontolog wiki too (at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JimHendler)
>>
>> (b) a recent picture of yours (about 150x150 pixels, in png, jpg or 
>> gif format),
>>
>> (c) the title of your talk, and
>>
>> (d) an abstract of your talk (anywhere from a few sentences to a 
>> couple of paragraphs will do).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Closer to the time (say, by August 2, although this is not a hard 
>> deadline), please send me:
>>
>> (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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> (f) After I receive your presentation material, we will schedule a 
>> phone 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. We need to do this while you are at the venue when you 
>> plan to be presenting from (e.g. your office, your home, ... etc.). 
>> You are also invited to take a look at the hints we have for sessions 
>> like this at: 
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpeakerSessionTips
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Additionally, we have been recording 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> =PPY
>>
>> Peter P. Yim
>> [ontolog-forum], co-convener
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net
>> Phone: (650) 578-9998
>>
>> 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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