OntologySummit2008 - Content Planning Meeting - Fri 2008-02-01 (18KR)
Summit Theme: "Toward an Open Ontology Repository" (18MZ)
The key purpose of this meeting is for the pre-launch planning of the OntologySummit2008 content and the process to assure that the community can effectively explore, debate, deliberate and capture that content through our online discourse, between the Feb-27 Launch Event and the Apr-28 & 29 (2008) face-to-face workshop. (18N0)
Conference Call Details (18KS)
- Date: Friday, February 1, 2008 (18O6)
- Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 7:30pm CET / 18:30 UTC (18O7)
- ref: World Clock (18O8)
- Expected Call Duration: ~1.5 hours (18O9)
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- This session, like all other Ontolog events, is open to the public. Information relating to this session is shared on this wiki page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_02_01 (18NL)
- Please note that this session may possibly be recorded, and the audio archive is expected to be made available as open content to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy. (18NM)
Attendees (18KU)
- Attended: (18KV)
- Expecting: (18KW)
- GerryCreager (Texas A&M University) (18L1)
- Regrets (*Apologies for not being able to schedule this at the time slot that works for you. --Steve) : (18KX)
Agenda Ideas (18LE)
- (please add your suggestions below, kindly identify yourself.) (18LF)
- ... (18LG)
- while MichelleRaymond's proposed list of topics is very comprehensive, I suspect that the 11 weeks we have (between the Feb-7 launch and the Apr-28 face-to-face workshop) may not allow us to fully tackle them thoroughly. I suggest we decide what we want to drop out as deliverable(s) - vis-a-vis what we want to see in a joint communiqué from the summit conveners - and then work backwards on identifying the appropriate sub-teams to tackle the key facets that need to be covered to allow the communiqué to be meaningful and representative of the expertise and effort that this community has put into it. (--comment from PeterYim / 2008.01.31) (18MS)
- we might want to discuss a bit on how best to get the best synergy between the summit online discourse and the work by the OOR initiative. (--comment from PeterYim / 2008.02.01) (18O4)
Resources (18MT)
- MichelleRaymond's proposed Topic Structure and Potential starting point of discussion. (18NN)
- OntologySummit2008/Idea (18MU)
- 2008_01_22 - Tuesday: OntologySummit2008 Planning Meeting - ConferenceCall_2008_01_22 T (18MV)
- OntologySummit2008 (18MW)
- OntologySummit2007 (18MX)
- UpperOntologySummit (2006) (18MY)
Agenda & Proceedings (18LH)
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda (18LI)
- MichelleRaymond took the chair and welcomed everyone. (18NO)
2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes (18NP)
- RaviSharma volunteered (18NQ)
3) Roll-call of participants (18NR)
- Welcome to new Ontolog community members (18NT)
4)Review and adopt agenda (18NU)
5) Key Issues discussion: (18NV)
- Content: (18NW)
The "deliverable" from this meeting is a set of main topics that support the theme of the OntologySummit2008 and possible champions for each of the main topics. (18VI)
The champions for each main topic can facilitate keeping discussion threads active in that area. They also play the lead role in keeping the associated Synopsis pages updated for the main topic and its discussion threads. (18VJ)
Synopsis pages contain an information overview of the topic threads and external links related to the topics. This allows user's to see the main points of a discussion and drill into the discussion threads or to reference resources cited here from the discussion threads. (18VK)
- Process: (18NX)
In support of this meeting's purpose: (18VL)
I. Review topics given the following criteria: (18VM)
1) The topic has been expressed to be of interest (.i.e. somebody cares about this topic enough to participate in its discussion and perhaps enough to be the champion of a synopsis page covering the topic.) (18VN)
2) The topic is important in moving us toward an open ontology repository. (18VO)
II. Group topics into 3 to 5 main subject areas. (18VP)
III. Rally champions for the main subject areas. (18VQ)
- Discussion: (18NY)
- What's out there now? (18VR)
- (BarrySmith) Any OWL or DAML listing ontologies that meet some minimal standard? (18VT)
- (PatHayes) Look at the need for verification of ontologies. [We need a] clear notion of what ontology is. (18VV)
- (FrankOlken) [Look at] current practices and approaches in Ontology Repositories and Registries. - Standards work. - Current implementation. (18VX)
- (SteveRay) Standards, issues, lessons learned. (18VZ)
- (FrankOlken) All repositories and standards are not ontologies (18WF)
- Topics for Focus (18W0)
- Stemming from the What's out there now? discussion (18WE)
- (PeterYim) "State of the Art" as a [Main Topic] (18WC)
- FrankOlken agreed to champion "State of the Art". (18WD)
- (PeterYim) Architecture and implementation out of picture. Defer Architecture and Applications to the Open Ontology Repository (OOR) group. (18W2)
- (PeterYim) Pick [focus] topics by who will champion the topic. (18W4)
- (PeterYim) [Consider the] Communiqué. (18W6)
- () What is the relationship between Ontologies in a repository? (18WB)
- Stemming from the What's out there now? discussion (18WE)
Results of the topic selection and restructuring done during this meeting are here. (18SQ)
- Next Steps: (18SX)
1. Topic Area Champions revise thread topic structure for each Main Topic (18SR)
Communiqué and Mission Statement champions to come from Organizing Group (18SS)
Ontology Repository Architecture championed by MichelleRaymond and RaviSharma (18ST)
Ontology of Ontologies championed by MichaelGruninger and PatHayes (18SU)
Quality Metrics championed by BarrySmith (18SV)
State of the Art Repository Work championed by FrankOlken (18SY)
2. Initialize Topic Area Synopsis pages (PeterYim will provide pages with initial templating) (18SZ)
3. Create Topic Area kickoff threads (18T0)
4. Announce Topic Areas at the OntologySummit2008 Launch Event. (18SW)
- Feb 7, 2008 Ontolog Forum Thursday meeting. (18WL)
- Present 5 pages and explain that champions will post and introduce and capture discussions etc and traffic in discussion groups on the Synopsis Pages. Peter to template the pages. (18WM)
- 5 Topic areas champions - Steve will lead and call on Champions. (18WN)
- To separate main threads use hyphenated words in email subjects. Michelle to choose words. example - Subject:[state-of-art]DAML Ontology list (18WO)
6) Any Other business. (18NZ)
7) Next meeting date and adjourn (18O0)
- Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2008.02.07 OntologySummit2008 Launch Event. Details will be posted on its session page at ConferenceCall_2008_02_07 ... see you all then! (18O1)
- this call session was adjourned at 12:27 pm PST (18O2)
8) Audio archive of the session: click here (mp3) [ 1 Hr. 52 min. / 12.8 MB ] {nid 18OQ} (18WP)
-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by MichelleRaymond & RaviSharma / 2008.02.01-_____ PST Attendees are requested to review the notes above, help clean it up, and make amendments and edits to better reflect the proceedings of the session as they see fit (particularly where they are personally involved). (18O3)