Kurt, (01)
I've removed Tony from this response. (02)
I've also been talking with Mills Davis about this conference, and in
his last message dated 2/2, he cc-ed Tony Shaw. He invited me to
present and participate in a session, which tentatively they've
entitled "Spectrum of Reasoning and Semantic Applications", suggesting
that this session could be a panel featuring me, Mike Uschold, and John
Sowa, though he is open to other suggestions. But my actual attendance
may be problematic. (03)
In addition, Mike Uschold and I have a tutorial proposal into the
organizers. At the time, I told Mike that it was rather doubtful that I
could attend, given my travel constraints, but that I would certainly
contribute to this. (04)
I think that it would be excellent for Ontolog to participate and it
will certainly help our members to get a discount to attend. And "What
is an Ontology?" is a very good topic for us to address, as is or as
part of this, a look-ahead to the typing of ontologies that we are
intending for the Ontology Summit. But perhaps the latter topic
extension is something we don't want to address until the Ontology
Summit. (05)
So, I am all in favor of participating! It will be good for Ontolog,
its members, and the larger community. (06)
Thanks,
Leo (07)
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Subject: [ontolog-admin] Possible plans for Semantic Technology
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All, (010)
I talked with Tony Shaw, this week, about plans for the upcoming
Semantic Technology conference. He again offered Ontolog a meeting
room, if we desire one. I told him that were thinking more along the
lines of an informal community dinner, assuming we can find someone
to organize it. (011)
He reiterated his offer for Ontolog member discounts, suggesting that
we be considered a "community partner", which would give Ontolog
members a 50% cut. (012)
Finally, he asked if we would want to contribute to / sponsor a
keynote on the topic: "What is an Ontology?" Dave McComb had
informed him of Ontolog's recent discussions on that topic. I told
him that we were trying to find individuals to consolidate the
discussions down to something like a digest. Tony offered the
possibility that his company could provide small writing stipends for
graduate students to do some of the work. His goal is to create a
conference take-away with Ontolog holding the copyright. (013)
Tony would prefer a response by Wednesday, so that the conference
brochures could reflect our decisions, but we don't need to respond
that quickly. (014)
In any event I suggest that we invite Tony to Thursday's 10:30
planning session to reach agreement on the particulars. (015)
Thoughts and suggestions? (016)
/s/ kwc 2007.02.11 11:35 (017)
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