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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