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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