Dear Professor Rector, (01)
Further to our recent discussion, I would like to thank you, on
behalf of the community, for accepting our invitation to speak at
the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, 14th September, 2006. As you may
already be aware, the Ontolog community engages in the learning,
discourse and development of ontologies, and 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 ). Your
giving us a talk in "Terminologies and Ontologies," and sharing
your experience/insight on that topic would definitely be of
great interest to the community. 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 to
start at 17:30 UTC / 6:30pm BST / 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT.
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 minutes. The session
will be held over a phone conference, augmented by online
presentation material. (03)
I need from you (a month before the talk, i.e. on/before
14-Aug-2006): (04)
(a) the title for your talk (already received), (05)
(b) an abstract on your talk, (06)
(c) a recent picture of yours, and (07)
(d) a short biographic sketch of yourself (already received). (08)
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. (09)
Closer to the time (say, a week before your talk, although this
is not a hard deadline), please send me: (010)
(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. (011)
During the talk, you will need to prompt the audience to advance
the slides (and call out the slide number, every time you change
slides). I will be in control of a shared-screen server (a VNC
server) and will advance the slides for you. If you need to run
another applications (say, a web browser or some demo
application) and share the screen, 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 (although
participants who are behind tight corporate firewalls may have to
download your slides and run them on their own desktop.) (012)
You are requested to take a look at the hints we have for
sessions like this at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpeakerSessionTips (013)
For your reference, please take a look at the wiki session pages
of similar recent presentations, which you can access under
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ (for
example, Dr. Pat Cassidy's recent session at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_13).
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.) After the wiki page for your session has
been created, you are encouraged to post additional relevant
resources (papers, links, references, ... etc.) to support your
presentation. (014)
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 have also subscribe you to the
[ontolog-forum] mailing list so that you will be kept abreast of
the exchanges prior to, and following your presentation. I will
assume that these are acceptable to you unless I hear from you
otherwise. (015)
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. Please acknowledge this message now (so
that I can be sure it did get delivered properly.) (016)
Sincerely,
=PPY (017)
Peter P. Yim
[ontolog-forum], co-convener
http://ontolog.cim3.net
Phone: +1 (650) 578-9998 (018)
P.S. *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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