OKMDS: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 26-Feb-2008 (19V8)
- This is the 15th conference call of the organizing committee for the joint NASA-Ontolog-KMWG "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support" initiative. The session is expected to be a 1-Hour conference call. (19V9)
- URL for this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_02_26 (19VA)
Conference Call Details (19VB)
- Date: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008 (19VC)
- Start Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 18:00 UTC (19VD)
- ref: World Clock (19VE)
- Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hour (19VF)
- Dial-in Number: (19VG)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (19VK)
- view-only password: "ontolog" (19VL)
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only) (19VM)
Attendees: (19VN)
- Expecting: (19VP)
- Regrets: (19VY)
Agenda Ideas (19W1)
- getting ready for the [OKMDS] session on Thu 2008.03.20 - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_03_20 (19W2)
- continue with status review on the April~May OKMDS events (19W3)
- tying down the June Concluding Session of the OKMDS mini-series (19W4)
- progress review on the [okmds-convene] online discourse (19W5)
- Peter: shall we take another look on how we are doing, and what else could to be done to make this an even greater success (19W6)
... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes) (19W7)
Agenda & Proceedings (19W8)
1. Meeting called to order: (19W9)
- JeanneHolm took the chair and welcomed everyone (19WA)
- review and adopt agenda (19WC)
2. Roll Call: (19WD)
3. Status of developing issues: (19WF)
- Next two scheduled sessions are underway: (19WG)
- 2008_03_20 - Thursday: OKMDS - "Organizing Science Knowledge for Discovery at NASA" - Panel: RichKeller, RobRaskin & RalphHodgson - ConferenceCall_2008_03_20 T (19WH)
- 2008_04_17 - Thursday: OKMDS Panel Discussion: "Knowledge Mapping for Sensemaking" - JeffConklin, SimonBuckinghamShum, EricYeh & JackPark - ConferenceCall_2008_04_17 T (19WI)
- Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call) (19WJ)
- Jeanne will prepare a press release for Federal Computer Week and Government Computer News to announce the mini-series. (19WK)
- Discussions: (19WM)
- postmortem on the [OKMDS] session on Thu 2008.02.21 - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_02_21 (19WN)
- topic: "How Knowledge Management Supports Decision Making in the (US) Federal Government" (19WO)
- panelists: GioraHadar (FAA) and MichaelKull (NRC) (19WP)
- session chair: JeanneHolm (19WQ)
- MichaelKull suggested a discussion on All or Nothing: A Debate about Categorization (re: David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous) (1A5H)
- ascertaining that everything is still on target for the [OKMDS] session on Thu 2008.03.20 - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_03_20 (19WR)
- topic: "Organizing Science Knowledge for Discovery" (19WS)
- panelists: RichKeller, RobRaskin & RalphHodgson (need bios and pictures too) (19WT)
- session chair: JeanneHolm (19WU)
- all panelists have confirmed and all bios, pictures, slides will be available soon (1A5I)
- new abstract needed adding R. Hodgson (1A5J)
- announcement will be sent to Peter by Friday, Feb. 29 (1A5K)
- status review of the [OKMDS] session on Thu 2008.04.17 - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_04_17 (19WV)
- topic: "Knowledge Mapping for Sense Making" (was tentatively, " 'Wicked Problems,' Dialog Mapping and Decisions " previously) (19WW)
- panelists: JeffConklin, SimonBuckinghamShum, EricYeh, JackPark (19WX)
- session co-chair: JeanneHolm & PeterYim (19WY)
- session is progressing well (1A5L)
- status review of the [OKMDS] session with Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks (19WZ)
- Susan suggested making the invitation to Yochai for May. His focus would be on open networks of people that challenge conventional thinking of firms as the primary place for effective knowledge management and decision-making toward wealth-making. Susan will check on interest and availability. (19X0)
- Date: ??-May-2008 (open dates are 5/8 or even 5/22) (19X1)
- Speaker: Yochai Benkler (1A5D)
- title: ?? (1A58)
- chair: ?? (1A59)
- Susan has not pursued this yet, but will report back in two weeks. Jeanne offered the May 29 date, if that's useful. (1A5M)
- need to tie down the Closing Session for the OKMDS mini-series (19X2)
- Andy to clarify topic & panel selection with Jeanne (19X3)
- Date confirmed -- 29-May-2008 (19X4)
- Title: Connecting People Through Semantics, and OKDMS Series Summary (1A56)
- Panel: JeanneHolm & AndrewSchain (1A5E)
- chair: JeanneHolm (1A57)
- this will be our wrap-up session - therefore great that it will be featuring NASA work too (19X7)
- progress review on the [okmds-convene] online discourse which is being archived and cross-posted to [KMgov] (19X8)
- still not get very active discussions, possibly due to: (19X9)
- Ken: will continue to mull this over with Kurt (19XC)
- leveraging on the panel sessions (19XD)
- highlighting the core questions again at the beginning of each session to re-focus people toward them - maybe the session chair can do it (even flash a slide with all our questions during the intro) (19XE)
- interviews speakers post session - this could also be done over the "chat" session, after most people have dropped off - and post the Q&A to the list (19XF)
- take another look on how we are doing, and what else could to be done to make this an even greater success (19XG)
5. New Issues: (19XH)
6. Any Other Business: (19XI)
7. Action items: (19XJ)
- Jeanne providing all March details before traveling (1A5P)
- Jeanne preparing press release to share at Spring conferences (1A5Q)
- Susan report on possible May session (1A5R)
- PeterYim - suggested that organizers share their reflections at the final session in several bullets each (1A5S)
8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: (19XK)
- Next Meeting: (19XL)
- our next organizing committee meeting, which we will be holding once every fortnight, will be a 1-Hour conference call starting Thu 2008.03.11 - 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST (19XM)
- refer to details at the wiki session page (closer to the time) at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_11 (19XN)
- our next organizing committee meeting, which we will be holding once every fortnight, will be a 1-Hour conference call starting Thu 2008.03.11 - 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST (19XM)
- Call adjourned at: 10:46 am PST (19XO)
-- notes taken by: SusanTurnbull / 2008.02.26- 10:46 am PST All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. (19XP)