OKMDS: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 30-Oct-2007 (15G3)
- This is the 5th conference call of the organizing committee for the joint NASA-Ontolog "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support" initiative. The session is expected to be a 1-hour conference call. (15G4)
Conference Call Details (15G5)
- Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 (15G6)
- Start Time: 9:45am PDT / 12:45pm EDT / 16:45 UTC (15G7)
- ref: World Clock (15G8)
- Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes (15G9)
- Dial-in Number: (15GA)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (15GE)
- view-only password: "ontolog" (15GF)
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only) (15GG)
Attendees: (15GH)
- Attended: (15GI)
- Expecting: (15GJ)
- Regrets: (15GR)
Agenda Ideas (15GV)
- postmortem of the 25-Oct-2007 session (15GW)
- Tie down details of the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event (15GX)
- suggest program content for the next 2~3 months or even the entire 6 months of the mini-series (15GY)
- identify "discussion moderators" to champion/focus on particular questions we want to investigate/explore (15GZ)
- also, the logistics and mechanics of cross-posting to [KMgov] and [okmds-convene] (15H0)
- define (ultimate) deliverables of this entire mini-series (15H1)
- ... (15H2)
... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes) (15H3)
Agenda & Proceedings (15H4)
1. Meeting called to order: (15H5)
- SusanTurnbull took the chair and welcomed everyone (15H6)
- review and adopt agenda (15H8)
2. Roll Call: (15H9)
3. Issues brought forward: (15HB)
- postmortem of the 25-Oct-2007 session - ConferenceCall_2007_10_25 (15IM)
- what worked well? (15IN)
- what didn't? (15IO)
- everyone appears under their alias in Second Life ... what can we do to improve on the 'networking' when people actually don't know each other by their aliases (15IV)
- the gaming world which SL was probably first designed for, is probably not exactly for us (15J0)
- we need some sort of convention about naming people (15J1)
- the "JamieB Tomorrow" example (which JamieClark (James Bryce Clarke) used as his alias) was easy to recognize (15J2)
- the NASA Guest "label" should work well too (15J3)
- everyone appears under their alias in Second Life ... what can we do to improve on the 'networking' when people actually don't know each other by their aliases (15IV)
- what are we going to do differently? (15IP)
- need to clarify to people that they can get the full OKMDS series programming/content either way ('real life' or 'second life'), people just being on augmented conference call are not at all penalized (15IW)
- question: are sessions being archived (or links to the archive available) at the NASA/JPL Second Life site? Would be nice if we can implement that. (15IX)
- we need some sort of convention about naming people so as to help the networking (15J4)
4. Status of developing issues: (15HC)
- Outstanding Issue Update: (15HD)
- Tie down details of the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event (15HE)
- ref. last week's discussion (Oct-25): (15IS)
- (suggested) general agenda for the Nov-8 launch event: (15HG)
- Opening and welcome -- Peter (15HH)
- Andrew and Jeanne will set out the agenda and the questions to be discussed to maintain focus as people get used to the environment (15HI)
- 5 minutes for pre-brief. This will establish the context and set the focus. (15HJ)
- 15 to 20 minutes to go around the room asking each person to give a short introduction (NOT a presentation!) about themselves. (15HK)
- 30 to 45 minutes for the main presentation done by Andrew and Jeanne. (15HL)
- 30 minutes. Open discussion. Issues that were not addressed can be registered with the chat window. (15HM)
- Conclusion / Follow-up - ask people to subscribe to discussion list, and actively discuss/debate the issues (15HN)
- Agreed that the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event would consist of three parts (15HO)
- 1. Initiative Overview (15HP)
- 2. First presentation of the series by Andrew and Jeanne (15HQ)
- 3. Review of organizing process and communication options to ensure full participation by interested individuals - how to join discussion forum, listserv cross-posting?, RSS feeds, podcasts of sessions (15HR)
- suggest program content for the next 2~3 months or even the entire 6 months of the mini-series (15HS)
- speaker sessions - candidate speaker, topic, date (for each) (15HT)
- panel discussions - topic, chair/moderator, candidate panelists (for each) (15HU)
- Suggestions: (15J5)
- Peter: SOFI panel - Gordon, Glenn, Yim, Baclawski, Cassidy (15J6)
- Peter: Dialog mapping - Conklin, Shum, Park et al. (15J7)
- Susan: Morrison on IARPA funded research IC use of knowledge/decision environments (15JA)
- Ken: "Living with Uncertainty" - panel on probabilistic reasoning and decision support (15JB)
- Ken: ontology-based Dialog Planning for Relational Medicine (15JC)
- Jeanne / Andy should probably have some great stuff at NASA we can draw upon (15JD)
- General consensus (from participants at this call): (15JE)
- stay focused on our mission - ref. mission statement: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS#nid152K (15JF)
- may need to reiterate between our mission statement and the programing to make sure they align (15JG)
- identify who can be speakers at the intersections (not just the domain experts) (15JH)
- have people from different community vantage points comment on the experts' presentations (15JI)
- identify "discussion moderators" to champion/focus on particular questions we want to investigate/explore (15HV)
- online discourse - topic, moderator, candidate (invited) experts to help lead & contribute to the discussion (15HW)
- Online discourse - need to clarify on the logistics and mechanics of cross-posting to [KMgov] and [okmds-convene] (15HX)
- define (ultimate) deliverables of this entire mini-series (15HY)
- Discussed at the last (Oct-25) call: (15I2)
- Agreed that focus area champions would be conducive to fruitful discussions within and across the many pathways of exploration anticipated; the questions will also help frame the discussions (15I3)
- Need to determine our deliverables and the form(s) of the anticipated outcome of this mini-seminar series ... candidates include: (15I4)
- A Communique similar to what was developed by UpperOntologySummit (2006) or OntologySummit2007 (15I5)
- Scaffold for anticipated emergence of a Community of Practice (15I6)
- [3 additional ideas added by SusanTurnbull when completing session notes] (15I7)
- Partial answers to initial questions with associated community "confidence/ consensus / validation" ratings associated with each question -> precipitating a more refined set of questions to launch a future mini-seminar series (15I8)
- Initial "start-up" scenario sketches valued by cross-boundary organizations seeking to lightly organize around shared purpose and uncertain how to proceed - Best Gleanings from the Series as a Primer (15I9)
- from J. Seely Brown - Beginnings and Endings are always the most difficult. (15IA)
- example from Judith Olson's decade long research summarized as Collaboration Wizard (15IB)
- Prepare additional 2-3 sessions (dates, presenters, topics) to announce on Nov. 8 (15IC)
- Discussions: (15ID)
- SusanTurnbull: note that on 16-Nov-2007, there will be a Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference. If you cannot attend the meeting physically, you can attend through Second Life at the following NOAA SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/199/138/28 (15IY)
- NancyFaget did ask (a) if our friends from NASA/JPL are involved, and (b) to please try telling participants there about our OKMDS mini-series (15IZ)
- World Usability Day - 08-Nov-2007 too, this year's theme is Healthcare - see: http://worldusabilityday.org (15J8)
- Ken: starting new project on "Dialog" in healthcare with relational agents ... will be able to report on that later (15J9)
- SusanTurnbull: note that on 16-Nov-2007, there will be a Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference. If you cannot attend the meeting physically, you can attend through Second Life at the following NOAA SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/199/138/28 (15IY)
5. New Issues: (15IE)
6. Any Other Business: (15IF)
7. Action items: (15IG)
8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: (15IH)
- Next Meeting: 1-Hour starting Tue 2007.11.06 - 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT (15II)
- refer to details at the wiki session page (closer to the time) at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_11_06 (15IJ)
- Call adjourned at: 11:28 am PDT (15IK)
-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.10.30-11:31 PDT All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. (15IL)