Dear Dr. Guarino, (01)
Further to your confirmation with Dr. Leo Obrst (Ontolog,
co-convener), I would like to thank you, on behalf of the
community, for accepting our invitation to speak at the
Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, February 2, 2006. I am writing here,
to provide further details and some administrivia on the event. (02)
This session will be a 1.5 to 2 hour virtual event, scheduled for
7:30~9:30pm CET / 10:30am~12:30pm PST / 1:30~3:30pm EST /
18:30~20:30 UTC. The session will start with about 10~15 minutes
for self-introductions by participants and for getting everyone
settled in. Dr. Obrst will then formally introduce you. Your
virtual presentation (of approximately 45~60 minutes) will then
follow. After which, there will be an open discussion for about
30~45 minutes. This will be over a phone conference, augmented
by online presentation material. (03)
The [ontolog] community engages in the learning, discourse and
development of 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
mentioned by Dr. Obrst, we are also in the process of
co-organizing an Upper Ontology Summit in March 2006 (which we
would definitely need your support and participation on). As the
custodian of one of leading established Upper Ontologies
available, your focusing this presentation on "DOLCE" will help
give our community a better understanding on that work, and
prepare us for the Upper Ontology Summit. Your sharing with us
the experience and insight based on your pioneering work, as well
as affording us the chance to have an open dialog with you will
be truly valued and appreciated.. (04)
I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your
earliest convenience (hopefully no later than Jan. 8, 2006): (05)
(a) the title for your talk, and (06)
(b) an abstract of your talk, anywhere from a few sentences to a
few paragraphs will do. (07)
(c) a recent picture of yours (about 180x180 pixels, in png, jpg
or gif format), (08)
(d) 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?NicolaGuarino -- your may
need to do a "Create Account" or "Login" for the user
"NicolaGuarino" before editing on the wiki (access is at the
upper right of wiki page)). (09)
Once I get the above, I will start building out the session wiki
page and announce the event, so that people could mark their
calendars and plan to attend. (010)
Closer to the time (say, by Jan. 26, 2006, although this is not a
hard deadline), please send me: (011)
(e) your presentation material* (in pdf, powerpoint, sxi, html,
png, jpg or some common electronic format) so that I can post it
online for access during the session. (Optionally, you may choose
to have that posted a week or so in advance of your talk, or
the morning of your 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 most of
the virtual attendees during the event. If you have trouble with
the VNC server access, I can always advance slides for you on
your prompt. (013)
(f) After I receive your presentation material (and if you choose
to control your only slides during the session), 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 should do this while you are
at the venue where you plan to be presenting from (e.g. your
office, your home, ... etc. because each may present different
connectivity issues we would need to tackle). 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 (014)
For your reference, please feel free to check out the wiki pages
of similar recent presentations, which you can access under
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ, or,
more specifically, the one by Chris Welty on OntoClean, where he
actually made the presentation from your office (see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_11_18).
They should provide some clues 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. (015)
Additionally, we will be 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. (016)
Once again, we've been honored to have you as an Ontolog member.
Thank you very much for agreeing to speak, and to having a dialog
with the rest of the Ontolog 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. (017)
Sincerely,
=PPY (018)
Peter P. Yim
[ontolog-forum], co-convener
http://ontolog.cim3.net
Phone: +1 (650) 578-9998 (019)
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 service which we employ to allow the audience to be
in sync with you on your slide presentation. =ppy
-- (020)
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