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From: "MacPherson, Deborah" <dmacpherson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:49:20 -0400
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Great - glad they were helpful
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[ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael F Uschold 
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Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Official Communique Feedback Thread    (01)

Thanks very much, excellent feedback. I made virtually all your suggested 
changes.    (02)

Michael    (03)

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:44 PM, MacPherson, Deborah 
<dmacpherson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:dmacpherson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Comments    (04)

There are two periods at 
(2S6D)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S6D>    (05)

__________________    (06)

making the case to a variety of stakeholders.    
(2S6F)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S6F>    (07)

and several sentences below that also refer to stakeholders -    (08)

If the pitch is being given these are not stakeholders yet, they have not 
invested anything yet. However, they could benefit and become stakeholders in 
the future.  Could the first sentence change to "....potential beneficiaries 
and future stakeholders".    (09)

There are a number of sentences below where "stakeholder" is not always 
necessary    (010)

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They provide a set of common problems that ontologies can be used to solve and 
value propositions.    (011)

in 
(2S6X)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S6X>    (012)

__________________    (013)

A fourth track was devoted to exploring longer term idea that may require 
further research, but which is feasible nevertheless. This was the Grand 
Challenges<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_GrandChallenges_Synthesis>
 track (led by RamSriram<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RamSriram>, 
ErnieLucier<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ErnieLucier> and 
AldenDima<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AldenDima>).    
(2S70)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S70>    (014)

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Finally, there was an over-arching track for 
Strategy<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_MakingTheCase_Synthesis>
 (championed by 
MatthewWest<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MatthewWest> and 
PeterYim<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PeterYim>). How to put 
together all the materials gathered and present them in the most effective way 
to the appropriate stakeholder? I highlight Two of the results can be 
highlighted that emerged from this track. First, the realization that....    (015)

in 
(2S71)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S71>    (016)

__________________    (017)

"Ontology does for machines what the World Wide Web did for people." 
SteveRay<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SteveRay>    
(2S73)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S73>
And a few other quotes below should all be italic and attributed    (018)

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In summary there were 5 tracks: Case Studies, Ontology Usage Framework, Value 
Metrics, Strategy and Grand Challenges.
Needs to match the order of the 5 tracks as listed above with Strategy last (or 
reorder above)    (019)

__________________    (020)

In the rest of the communique, we will highlight some of the more important 
conclusions from the tracks and email discussions. This will also elaborate a 
bit more on the four main themes above. In doing so, some of the tracks will be 
touched on more than others. Please refer to the track links for further 
information.    
(2S7A)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S7A>
Either strike "four main" and just say themes, or change to five tracks    (021)

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 *   Apply machine-learning, data-mining and other scale-based automatic 
techniques for the semantic document processing and advanced analytics in 
fields such as law, medicine, science, defense, and intelligence    
(2S7I)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S7I>
Listing the fields may be limiting.
Or, can healthcare or something in the humanities be added for a broader 
spectrum?    (023)

__________________    (024)

Fundamentally, ontology is about reaching agreements on what things mean in 
machine processable form.    (025)

in 
(2S7U)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S7U>    (026)

__________________    (027)

When no-one knows on what anything means and there are so many systems that are 
in production,    (028)

the key to enabling a company an organization of any size to do the same things 
more efficiently    (029)

in    
(2S7V)<http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft#nid2S7V>    (030)

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Finally, attached is from a separate thread about whether or not the fire 
fighters case study is using ontologies    (031)


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 On Behalf Of Michael F Uschold
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:26 AM    (038)

To: Ontology Summit
Subject: [ontology-summit] Official Communique Feedback Thread    (039)

Everyone,    (040)

Please use this email thread for all feedback on the communique.  Anything 
submitted elsewhere risks not being addressed.  If you have already submitted 
feedback, I will greatly appreciate if you can take a moment and re-send it on 
this thread using the subject.    (041)

Many thanks.    (042)

DETAILS:
There is now a snapshot of the draft Communique on the wiki for public review 
and comment.    (043)

See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Communique/Draft    (044)

The evolving draft Communique is 
at:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z1oyuFxRfhJrzaEcORPT5hWfQqP36uzz7mn8GG-sxDM/edit?hl=en&authkey=CO-n3oEN    (045)

Please refer to the process described in:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2011-04/msg00092.html to progress 
this document to its final release.
Michael    (046)


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