I underscore Peter's message: we really want to stir interaction among
the upper ontology custodians. (01)
We want you to interact to work toward some agreement or consensus
prior to the UO Summit. Or even to state that such is impossible. But
if the latter, why? If the former, how? (02)
Thanks,
Leo (03)
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[mailto:uos-convene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter P. Yim
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:17 PM
To: Upper Ontology Summit convention
Subject: Re: [uos-convene] What needs done here (05)
All, (06)
I'd like to highlight an observation ... (07)
One of the key purposes of the UOS (and hence the conversation on
the [uos-convene] forum) is to have the 'custodians' of key
public upper ontologies to come to some consensus. ... Those
custodians include: (08)
Dr. John Bateman - Spatial Cognition
Dr. Aldo Gangemi - DOLCE-D&S (Description & Situation extensions)
Dr. Michael Gruninger - PSL / ISO 18629
Dr. Nicola Guarino - DOLCE
Dr. Douglas Lenat - OpenCyc
Mr. Adam Pease - SUMO
Dr. Barry Smith - BFO
Dr. Matthew West - ISO 15926-2 (09)
(Source :
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2006-02/msg00043.html#nid04
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where I have removed the speakers who are involved to help make
things happen, as our other key participants are too.) (010)
It is obvious that we need more participation from most of these
'custodians' on the list now ... or, coming to any sort of
consensus will be even more of a challenge. (011)
Our goal is to have come to some consensus with this virtual
discussion, and use the 3/14~15 face-to-face meetings to tie up
loose ends and get our joint message out to the public. (012)
We definitely need to hear from each and everyone named above ...
Please. (013)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
-- (014)
Peter P. Yim wrote:
> All,
>
>
> Since we are only less than 3 weeks to our March 15 Upper Ontology
> Summit, and that we are trying to get all (most, at least) loose ends (015)
> tied, before we even land at Gaithersburg, let me recap (from the
> 2006.02.16 organizing committee conference call) what we hope/need to (016)
> get done through the use of this ([uos-convene]) discussion
workspace:
>
> Discussions on [uos-convene] to start urgently - three goals:
>
> * (i) get a technical solution that all would agree on - Pat to
> facilitate
>
> * (ii) get the joint communique drafted - Pat & Leo to facilitate
>
> * (iii) get the agenda for the three meetings laid out - chair of
each
> meeting will facilitate that (attn: Leo, Brand & Steve)
>
> Ref:
>
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingC
ommitteeMeeting_2006_02_16#nidK6J
>
>
> By the way, the three meeting are namely:
>
> (1) Mar. 14, 2005 - 8:30~10:00am and then 1~5 pm EST
>
> Session title: "Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation
Meeting"
>
> Session Chair: Dr. Leo Obrst, Ontolog co-convener, MITRE
>
> Session Description: (tentative) A small group consisting of upper
> ontology custodians, the invited key participants, and the organizing (017)
> committee gets together to work out the final technical details of
what
> they agreed to in light of the purpose of the UOS, and to finalize
the
> "Joint Communique" that all are expected to signed at the 3/15 pm
public
> panel session.
>
>
> (2) Mar. 15, 2006 - 9 am ~ 12 noon EST
>
> Session title: "Upper Ontology Application Dialog"
>
> Session Chair: Dr. Brand Niemann, SICoP Chair, EPA
>
> Session Description: (tentative) In addition to the panelists,
> organizers, and key participants, early adopters, potential users and (018)
> potential funders of ontology development will be invited to discuss
> mutual concerns.
>
>
> (3) Mar. 15, 2006 - 1 pm ~ 5 pm EST
>
> Session title: The "Upper Ontology Summit" Panel Session
>
> Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray, NIST
>
> Session Description: There are a number of extensive upper ontologies
in
> existence today, including SUMO, OpenCyc Upper Ontology, DOLCE, BFO,
> PSL, ISO 15926 and many others emerging from the OWL community and
> application areas such as biomedical research. At this summit
workshop,
> following a series of discussions carried out among the "custodians"
of
> the leading existing upper ontologies and key practitioners, a
> communique will be delivered to the community that will articulate
the
> group's view of how these upper ontologies will be expected to
> interoperate in the future. It is our belief that a consolidation of (019)
> the technical community will lead to a more thriving marketplace for
> semantic technologies, with associated benefits of improved
> interoperability and productivity for participating customers.
Members
> of the public press will be invited to join us.
>
>
> Therefore, while the technical discussion is probably more fun, we'd
> need to move on multiple front quickly, guys!
>
>
> Cheers. =ppy
> --
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