Dear Jason, (01)
Further to our recent meeting and e-mail exchanges, I would like
to thank you, on behalf of the community, for accepting our
invitation to speak at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, August 23,
2007. As you may already be aware, the Ontolog community engages
in the learning, discourse and development of ontologies, and are
are 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 ).
Given your vision, experience and insight in the importance of
semantic search and other improvements in e-recordkeeping and
e-discovery for your profession, I am convinced that you are in a
unique position to make a compelling case to our community, and
help sharpen our focus in developing the technology and standards
that will be useful to the communities you are associated with. (02)
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 to start at 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT /
17:30 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 would usually skip the self-introduction part if
there are more than 20 attendees). Your virtual presentation (of
approximately 60 minutes) will 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 will need from you: (04)
(a) the title for your talk (done), (05)
(b) an abstract on your talk (done), (06)
(c) a short biographic sketch of yourself (done), (07)
(d) a recent picture of yours (or the link to one, kindly suuply
at your earliest convenience), and (08)
Upon receipt of the above, I will build out the session wiki page
(to be at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_08_23
) and announce the event, so that people could mark their
calendars and plan to attend. (09)
Closer to the time (say, 3~7 days 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)
For the best experience to all, you are cordially requested to go
over the information for speakers at our virtual sessions at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpeakerSessionTips#nidBMG (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. Tom Gruber's session at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_03_01).
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 and to get your audience prepared and engaged. (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. We will also encourage participants to
post any further question about your session to the
[ontolog-forum] mailing list so that so that the rest of the
community can benefit from the subsequent discourse too. 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, as you have in the past. Feel free to
contact the undersigned if there is any question. (016)
Please acknowledge this message now (so that I can be sure it did
get delivered properly.) (017)
Sincerely, =PPY (018)
Peter P. Yim
Ontolog, co-convener
http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/
Phone: +1 (650) 578-9998 (019)
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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