With appreciations to EdBarkmeyer, FrankOlken, HowardMason & SteveRay
who put further effort into getting things organized, we are about
ready to roll out the subject session. (01)
Ontolog Panel Discussion Session: "Towards a Quantities and Units of
Measure Ontology-based Standard" (02)
Again, this will be in our usual augmented conference call panel
discussion format:
(note that this will be on a Friday, not our usual Thursday event time slot) (03)
* Date: Friday, June 19, 2009
* Start Time: 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 6:00pm CEST / 5:00pm BST / 16:00 UTC
* * ref: World Clock -
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=19&year=2009&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=224
* Expected Call Duration: 2.0~2.5 hours (04)
The developing session page is
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2009_06_19 (05)
Please sign yourself up on that page to register your attendance (or
rsvp by emailing me <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline.) (06)
These events, like all other Ontolog virtual events, are open and free
of charge. Anyone who is interested, or (better still) who may have
something to contribute, is welcome. Please refer to event details on
the session page, to which the hyperlink is given above, where you
will find session agenda, conference call dial-in, slides and other
pertinent information. Feel free to pass this invitation along to
colleagues who may also find these sessions to be of interest. (07)
The sessions will be recorded and made available in a publicly
accessible archive. Therefore, before participating, please make sure
you are cognizant of our IPR policy (ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32). (08)
Thanks & regards. =ppy (09)
P.S. I need all panelists to be aware that the titles and abstracts
of their briefing are due *now* ... and slides are due by end-of-day
Wednesday 17-Jun-2009.
-- (010)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Ray <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Subject: Next steps in preparation for the UoM teleconference on June 19th
To: edbark@xxxxxxxx, folken@xxxxxxx, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>,
"Mason, Howard (UK)" <Howard.Mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (011)
Thanks for participating in yesterday’s call. My perception of the
next steps is as follows. (012)
It is important that we get a critical mass of representatives at the
call, from each of the following constituencies: (013)
1. The acknowledged authorities who maintain governance over the
system of measures. Primarily that would seem to be BIPM, along with
various national NMIs (National Measurement Institutes) who
collectively maintain key documents such as the GUM (Guidelinefor
Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement
Results), the VIM (International Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms
in Metrology), UCUM (Unified Code for Units of Measure), and the like.
Other related organizations would be IEC, IFCC, ISO, IUPAC, IUPAP and
OIML (014)
2. The community who believes there is a requirement to have a
harmonized ontology for units and measures. That would primarily be
people like us. (015)
3. The individuals and teams who believe they have an ontology,
or a piece of an ontology, that formally describes some or all of such
a universe of discourse. (016)
4. The community of ontologists who have the necessary skills to
be able to create a rigorous, well-posed ontology, or to evaluate the
quality of existing ontologies or structures (017)
So, the first order of business is to see if we can invite a minimum
number of people from each category to attend the call. My
understanding is the following: (018)
1. Ed and Howard will each follow their own connections (through
NIST and ISO/IEC respectively) to reach representatives at places such
as BIPM, or at national bodies that engage with BIPM. (019)
2. Peter will be advertising the call to the Ontolog community,
plus the current Ontolog conversation contains people who have
self-identified. (020)
3. Steve will talk to NASA/TopQuadrant. Also could contact Tom
Gruber and Elisa Kendall. Others are already engaged through Ontolog.
Any other suggestions? (021)
4. We should ensure that people like Pat Hayes are engaged at
the right time. Is the 19th the right time? (022)
- Steve (023)
Steven R. Ray, Ph.D.
Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (650) 587-3780 (CA)
(202) 362-5059 (DC)
Cell: (202) 316-6481 (024)
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