OKMDS: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 06-Nov-2007 (15O0)
- This is the 6th 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. (15O1)
Conference Call Details (15O2)
- Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 (15O3)
- Start Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 18:00 UTC (15O4)
- ref: World Clock (15O5)
- Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes (15O6)
- Dial-in Number: (15O7)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (15OB)
- view-only password: "ontolog" (15OC)
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only) (15OD)
Attendees: (15OE)
- Attended: (15OF)
- Expecting: (15OG)
- Regrets: (15OR)
Agenda Ideas (15OS)
- Tie down details of the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event (15OT)
- suggest program content for the next 2~3 months or even the entire 6 months of the mini-series (15OU)
- identify "discussion moderators" to champion/focus on particular questions we want to investigate/explore (15OV)
- also, the logistics and mechanics of cross-posting to [KMgov] and [okmds-convene] (15OW)
- define (ultimate) deliverables of this entire mini-series (15OX)
- ... (15OY)
... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes) (15OZ)
Agenda & Proceedings (15P0)
1. Meeting called to order: (15PD)
- review and adopt agenda (15PG)
2. Roll Call: (15PH)
3. Issues brought forward: (15PJ)
4. Status of developing issues: (15PK)
- Outstanding Issue Update: - continuing from the last meeting: (15PL)
- Tie down details of the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event (15PM)
- ref. last week's discussion (Oct-25): (15PN)
- (suggested) general agenda for the Nov-8 launch event: (15PO)
- Opening and welcome -- Peter (15PP)
- Andrew and Jeanne will set out the agenda and the questions to be discussed to maintain focus as people get used to the environment (15PQ)
- 5 minutes for pre-brief. This will establish the context and set the focus. (15PR)
- 15 to 20 minutes to go around the room asking each person to give a short introduction (NOT a presentation!) about themselves. (15PS)
- 30 to 45 minutes for the main presentation done by Andrew and Jeanne. (15PT)
- 30 minutes. Open discussion. Issues that were not addressed can be registered with the chat window. (15PU)
- Conclusion / Follow-up - ask people to subscribe to discussion list, and actively discuss/debate the issues (15PV)
- Agreed that the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event would consist of three parts (15PW)
- 1. Initiative Overview (15PX)
- 2. First presentation of the series by Andrew and Jeanne (15PY)
- 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 (15PZ)
- Andy: it will be one slide deck between both Jeanne & Andy (15QY)
- suggest program content for the next 2~3 months or even the entire 6 months of the mini-series (15Q0)
- speaker sessions - candidate speaker, topic, date (for each) (15Q1)
- panel discussions - topic, chair/moderator, candidate panelists (for each) (15Q2)
- Suggestions: (15Q3)
- Peter: SOFI panel - Gordon, Glenn, Yim, cheyer, Baclawski, Cassidy, Bedford - aim for this being the next event early Dec. (15Q4)
- need date, title and abstract by the 11/8 Launch date (15R6)
- Peter: Dialog mapping - Conklin, Shum, Park et al. (15Q5)
- Ken: ontology-based Dialog Planning for Relational Medicine - can probably cluster this with the baove item (15Q8)
- Susan: Morrison on IARPA funded research IC use of knowledge/decision environments (15Q6)
- ping Leo et al. if we put together a panel on the above focus (15R5)
- Ken: "Living with Uncertainty" - panel on probabilistic reasoning and decision support (15Q7)
- Jeanne / Andy should probably have some great stuff at NASA we can draw upon (15Q9)
- Andy: ongoing stuff that may be of interest - (15QZ)
- we should solicit something from the KM community (15R2)
- Peter: SOFI panel - Gordon, Glenn, Yim, cheyer, Baclawski, Cassidy, Bedford - aim for this being the next event early Dec. (15Q4)
- General consensus (from participants at this call): (15QA)
- stay focused on our mission - ref. mission statement: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS#nid152K (15QB)
- may need to reiterate between our mission statement and the programing to make sure they align (15QC)
- identify who can be speakers at the intersections (not just the domain experts) (15QD)
- have people from different community vantage points comment on the experts' presentations (15QE)
- identify "discussion moderators" to champion/focus on particular questions we want to investigate/explore (15QF)
- online discourse - topic, moderator, candidate (invited) experts to help lead & contribute to the discussion (15QG)
- Kurt: how about having each member of the organizing committee to come up with 3 question for each of the main themes (15R7)
- Susan: use the 8 question in our mission statement as the springboard (15R8)
- we solicit the participants to come up with their questions, and the rights once will float to the top (15R9)
- KenBaclawski and KurtConrad will lead the online discourse (15RA)
- Online discourse - need to clarify on the logistics and mechanics of cross-posting to [KMgov] and [okmds-convene] (15QH)
- define (ultimate) deliverables of this entire mini-series (15QI)
- Discussions: (15QM)
5. New Issues: (15QN)
6. Any Other Business: (15QO)
7. Action items: (15QP)
8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: (15QQ)
- Next Meeting: (15QR)
- Our OKMDS Launch Event - see you all there! - ref. ConferenceCall_2007_11_08 (15QS)
- next organizing committee meeting will be slated for 1-Hour starting Tue 2007.11.13 - 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT (15QT)
- 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_13 (15QU)
- Call adjourned at: 11:00 am PST (15QV)
-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.11.06-11:02 PST All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. (15QW)