Re: [ontology-summit] Communique: makign the case, or summaizing our res

[uschold <uschold@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK - I think that practically speaking, it may be our only option. And also, it is good to concisely summarize the background work we have done.

I would like for us to have as a stretch goal, to at least have a shot at "making the case" in a few paragraphs at the end, say.   An elevator case?

Michael 

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Obrst, Leo J. <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree: option 1 is the way to go, but with each of the track sections understanding that they need to direct their material toward the strategy and the overall goal of "making the case." Probably an Introduction that describes the overall intent of Ontology Summit 2011 and general issues, with the individual track section lead-in paragraphs emphasizing how they view "making the case" in their section, describing their contribution, then summarizing. Then the Strategy section could pull these together, and in effect act as summary about how to make the case.

The more concrete, the better.

Thanks,
Leo

 

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From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fabian Neuhaus
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Communique: makign the case, or summaizing our results?

Michael
I believe there is much consensus that it is hard to make the case for
ontology in the abstract, in particular since the presentation needs to
vary depending on the audience. Thus, I would suggest to follow option
1. The resulting document maybe not more than "solid background material
for writing a document focused on making the case", but in my opinion
that would be a valuable resource to have.
Fabian

On 3/3/2011 12:13 PM, Michael F Uschold wrote:
> There are two very different ways to write a communique.
> 1. summarize the results of our 5 tracks, tied together in some nice way
> 2. make the case for ontology
> If the former, we can talk about case studies, and the application
> framework etc, and the makign the case part will be discussed in the
> strategy section.
> If the latter, we make no attempt to summarize the tracks per se, we
> just take our best shot at making the caes for ontology, period. This
> is probably more useful, and we can point to output of each track, to
> the extent that they exist.  This approach may also be much harder to
> organize, meaning and produce.  Having each track lead produce a
> summary of their results is not really much more than solid background
> material for writing a document focused  on making the case.
>
> Your thoughts?
> Michael
>
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>    Skype, Twitter: UscholdM
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