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Re: [uos-convene] UOS co-sponsorship - NEED ANSWER

To: Upper Ontology Summit convention <uos-convene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Upper Ontology Summit Organizing Committee <uos-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:30:47 -0800
Message-id: <440755F7.7090006@xxxxxxxx>
Thank you, Mike.    (01)

I'll bring this up at the UOS Organizing Committee conference 
call this afternoon for a disposition.    (02)

Regards.  =ppy
--    (03)


Uschold, Michael F wrote Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:00:09 -0800:
> May I suggest a much simpler definition:
> 
> Replace:
>     "'Co-sponsors' are organizations who would provide technical or
> funding support (which all of you are already doing), and/or endorsing
> the purpose of this Upper Ontology Summit effort."
> 
> With:
> 
>    "'Co-sponsors' are organizations who that provide technical or
> funding support."    (04)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Ray [mailto:ray@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:28 AM
> To: 'Upper Ontology Summit convention'
> Subject: RE: [uos-convene] UOS co-sponsorship - NEED ANSWER
> 
> Peter,
>       Even though we're also listed as co-organizers, why don't you go
> ahead and list NIST as a co-sponsor as well. It may turn out to be a
> who's who list, and I'd hate to be absent!     (05)


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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:08:23 -0800
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
To: Upper Ontology Summit convention <uos-convene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [uos-convene] UOS co-sponsorship - NEED ANSWER    (06)

Re-stating the definition again (didn't clean it up enough in my
last message):    (07)

"'Co-sponsors' are organizations who are providing technical or
funding support, and/or endorsing the purpose of this Upper
Ontology Summit effort."    (08)

=ppy
=======    (09)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: uos-convene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:uos-convene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter P. Yim
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:36 PM
> To: Upper Ontology Summit convention
> Subject: Re: [uos-convene] UOS co-sponsorship - NEED ANSWER
> 
> All,
> 
> Further to our uos-conveners telephone conversation today, we agreed
> that this 'co-sponsorship' exercise needs everyone to opt-in before we
> will be moving them from the "candidate" to the "confirmed" list.
> 
> We also committed to state clearly how we define 'co-sponsors' 
> whenever we cite that list. Therefore, let me re-state the definition
> again,
> here:
> 
>    "'Co-sponsors' are organizations who would provide technical or
> funding support (which all of you are already doing), and/or endorsing
> the purpose of this Upper Ontology Summit effort."
> 
> Ref: 
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIOJ
> 
> So far, I have the following on the "confirmed" list:
> 
> # the Applied Ontology journal    (KLW)
> # Aritculate Software (AdamPease)    (KDL)
> # Boeing (MichaelUschold)    (KDO)
> # EPISTLE (European Process Industries STEP Technical Liaison 
> Executive)    (KLS)
> # CIM3 (PeterYim)    (KIX)
> # ECOR - European Centre for Ontological Research (NicolaGuarino) 
>     (KDH)
> # IEEE Standard Upper Ontology Working Group - 
> http://suo.ieee.org (JimSchoening)    (KDZ)
> # NCOR - (US) National Center for Ontological Research 
> (BarrySmith & MarkMusen)    (IOY)
> # Shell (MatthewWest)    (KDM)
> # University of Maryland College of Information Studies 
> (DagobertSoergel)    (KDS)
> 
> and I still have the following organizations on the "candidate" list:
> 
> # MITRE (LeoObrst)    (KDI)
> # CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies / Laboratory of
> Applied Ontology (Trento & Rome) (NicolaGuarino & 
> AldoGangemi)    (KDJ)
> # Cycorp (DougLenat)    (KDK)
> # IBM (ChrisWelty)    (KDN)
> # ISO 18629 Working Group (MichaelGruninger)    (KE1)
> # Ontology Works (BillAndersen)    (KDP)
> # University of Bremen (JohnBateman)    (KDQ)
> # University of Toronto (MichaelGruninger)    (KDR)
> # Texas A&M University (ChrisMenzel)    (KDT)
> # University at Buffalo (BarrySmith)    (KDU)
> # Stanford University (MarkMusen)    (KDV)
> # EPA (BrandNiemann)    (KDW)
> # National Center for Biomedical Ontology [cBio] (MarkMusen)    (KDX)
> # DERI ? (DieterFensel .. Leo, please help confirm) # USC and/or ISI ?
> (JerryHobbs) # UMBC ? (SergeiNirenberg) # NSF ? (MariaZemankova ...
> please help confirm) # HITOP (MarcWine ... BrandNiemann please help
> confirm) # FEA-DRM ? (BrandNiemann please help confirm) # NIH and/or NCI
> and/or UMLS ?
> (MarkMusen please help confirm) # UBL ? (PeterYim please help confirm) #
> OASIS ?  (PeterYim please help confirm)
> 
> If you see your name in parenthesis against an organization, I need your
> help and support. Kindly get back to me (hopefully, before the end of
> this
> week):
> 
> 1. if your organization can be listed as a 'co-sponsor' for UOS. 
> I need either a "yes" (I hope) or a "no" answer to bring this to
> closure.
> 
> 2. if the answer is "yes", please provide the exact way you want your
> organization's name worded -- this may possibly be broader or narrower
> than what we have listed now. (e.g. Mark might want "Stanford Medical
> Informatics" instead of "Stanford University" 
> because the latter would probably take too  long to clear, ... etc.)
> 
> 3. if there are more institutional support that you can help round up,
> please help by seeking the same and providing their name. (e.g. Nicola
> and Mark came back and said we could list the "Applied Ontology" journal
> as a co-sponsor too, and that's just
> wonderful!)
> 
> We need as many co-sponsors as we can! Your support will be really
> valuable and will be appreciated by all here.
> 
> Thanks & regards.  =ppy
> --
> 
> 
> Peter P. Yim wrote Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:33:31 -0800:
>> As promoting the use and publicizing "upper ontologies" is one of the 
>> main goals of this Upper Ontology Summit, we are hoping to get as many
> 
>> organizations to endorse the effort as we can.
>>
>> To this end, the UOS Organizing Committee has designated the label of 
>> 'Co-sponsors' for enlisting institutional support. 'Co-sponsors' are 
>> organizations who would provide technical or funding support (which 
>> all of you are already doing), and/or endorsing the purpose of this 
>> Upper Ontology Summit effort. No other 'cost' or requirement are 
>> involved
> ...
>> other than everyone's good intentions.
>>
>> We are hoping we can include all the relevant organizations each and 
>> everyone of us (here on this [uos-convene] list) are directly involved
> 
>> with to be a co-sponsor.
>>
>> I have compiled a draft list as follows (no particular order):
>>
>> # NCOR (BarrySmith & MarkMusen)
>> # ECOR (WernerCeusters & BarrySmith)
>> # MITRE (LeoObrst & PatCassidy)
>> # CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies / Laboratory 
>> of Applied Ontology (Trento & Rome) (NicolaGuarino & AldoGangemi) # 
>> Cycorp (DougLenat) # Aritculate Software (AdamPease) # Shell
>> (MatthewWest) # IBM (ChrisWelty) # Boeing (MichaelUschold) # Ontology 
>> Works (BillAndersen) # University of Bremen (JohnBateman) # University
> 
>> of Toronto (MichaelGruninger) # University of Maryland
>> (DagobertSoergel) # Texas A&M University (ChrisMenzel) # University at
> 
>> Buffalo (BarrySmith) # Stanford University (MarkMusen) # EPA
>> (BrandNiemann) # National Center for Biomedical Ontology [cBio]
>> (MarkMusen) # IEEE P1600.1 SUO-WG (JimSchoening) # ISO 15926 Working 
>> Group (MatthewWest) # ISO 18629 Working Group (MichaelGruninger) # 
>> DERI ? (DieterFensel) # USC and/or ISI ? (JerryHobbs) # UMBC ?
>> (SergeiNirenberg) # NSF ? (MariaZemankova ... please help confirm) # 
>> HITOP (MarcWine ... BrandNiemann please help confirm) # FEA-DRM ?
>> (BrandNiemann please help confirm) # NIH and/or NCI and/or UMLS ? 
>> (MarkMusen please help confirm) # UBL ? (PeterYim please help confirm)
> 
>> # OASIS ?  (PeterYim please help confirm)
>>
>> So far, I've got every organization there as a 'candidate' for now, 
>> and will hope to move them to the 'confirmed' co-sponsor list quickly 
>> ... a latest version of this list will be updated and posted under:
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIOJ
>>
>> Also, I have a few names with "?" behind them ... there are some 
>> dependencies in these cases. Will the people cited with these names 
>> please help and work on them.
>>
>>
>> I would need to know, from everyone:
>>
>> 1. if they can't be or don't want to be listed as a 'co-sponsor', or 
>> would need some time to get clearance to do so.
>>
>> 2. if they want the co-sponsorship to be worded in a particular way, 
>> say to a broader or narrower organizational designation. (e.g. Mark 
>> might want "Stanford Medical Informatics" instead of "Stanford
> University"
>> because the latter would probably take too  long to clear, ... etc.)
>>
>> 3. if there are more institutional support that you can help round up,
> 
>> please help by seeking the same and providing their name. (e.g. Nicola
> 
>> and/or Mark may help get the Journal of Applied Ontology as a 
>> co-sponsor, ... etc.)
>>
>> 4. Other comments or suggestions regarding this matter, and more 
>> broadly on how we can improve on the promotional effort.
>>
>> Let's try to hear from everyone by end-of-day Tuesday 2/28 or by the 
>> time of our conference call (which Steve Ray is calling.) We need to 
>> get the list compiled as quickly as we can, so we could incorporate 
>> them into press releases, etc.
>>
>>
>> Thanks & regards.  =ppy
>> --
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