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[ontolog-admin] Re: Ontolog Invited Speaker - Patrick Cassidy - Thu 200

To: Pat Cassidy <pcassidy@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-admin]" <ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:33:24 -0700
Message-id: <447203F4.8090709@xxxxxxxx>
ERRATA: reference to the July 2006 Protégé Conference corrected 
below. Should read "9th International Protégé Conference" 
(instead of "7th".)   =ppy
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Peter P. Yim wrote Mon, 22 May 2006 10:29:56 -0700:
> Dear Dr. Cassidy,
> 
> 
> Further to our recent exchanges, I would like to thank you, on behalf of 
> the community, for accepting our invitation to speak at the 
> Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, July 13, 2006. As you know, Ontolog is 
> rolling out a series of events (talks and discussion sessions) between 
> April and July 2006 that revolve around the topic: "Ontologizing the 
> Ontolog Body of Knowledge" during which this community will explore the 
> "what's" and "how's" to the development of a semantically interoperable 
> application, using the improved access to the community knowledge of 
> Ontolog as a case in point. Your talk will be a part of this series, 
> which culminates in the 7/23/06 face-to-face workshop which we will be 
> organizing in Northern California (co-located with the 9th International 
> Protégé Conference at Stanford). I am writing here, to provide further 
> details and some administrivia on the event.
> 
> This session will be a 1.5 to 2 hour virtual event, scheduled for 
> 10:30am~12:30pm PDT / 1:30pm~3:30pm EDT / 17:30~19:30 UTC. Depending on 
> the number of participants, the session will probably start with about 
> 10~15 minutes for self-introductions by participants and for getting 
> everyone settled in. We 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.
> 
> 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.  Your giving us 
> this talk (as discussed) representing a formal ontologist's position in 
> our Ontologizing the Ontolog body of knowledge exercise (possibly 
> something along the line of: "From Controlled Vocabulary to Standard 
> Ontologies"), as well as affording members of our community the chance 
> to have an open dialog with you, will be truly valued and appreciated.
> 
> I need from you (hopefully before the end of May 2006):
> 
> (a) the title for your talk,
> 
> (b) an abstract of your talk,
> 
> (c) a recent picture of yours, and
> 
> (d) a short biographic sketch of yourself.
> 
> Upon receipt of the above, I will build out the session wiki page and 
> announce the event, so that people could mark their calendars and plan 
> to attend.
> 
> Closer to the time (say, a week before your talk, although this is not a 
> hard deadline), please send me:
> 
> (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.)
> 
> 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 another 
> applications (e.g. Protégé on our CODS setup), please let me know 
> 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.
> 
> (f) After I receive your presentation material (and if you choose to 
> control your slides or other applications 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 requested 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, which you can access under 
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ. 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.
> 
> 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 this 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 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.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> =PPY
> 
> Peter P. Yim
> [ontolog-forum], co-convener
> http://ontolog.cim3.net
> Phone: +1 (650) 578-9998
> 
> 
> P.S. *Please note that: in preparing your powerpoint (or other 
> presentation material), please (a) make sure you number the slides, and 
> (b) 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
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