OntologySummit2007 Organizing Committee Meeting - Tue 2007.01.30 (SX6)
- Topic: First Meeting (v1.1, continuation) of the full Organizing Committee for OntologySummit2007 (SX7)
Conference Call Details (SX9)
- Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 (SXA)
- Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC (SXB)
- ref: World Clock (SXC)
- Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours (SXD)
- Dial-in Number: (SXE)
- from a telephone (US): +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA) (SXF)
- from a phone (Europe): 0870-738-0763(UK) or 01805 00 7620 (Germany) (SXG)
- callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers (SXH)
- Conference ID: "5823120#" (SXI)
- Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120 (SXJ)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (SXK)
- view-only password: "ontolog" (SXL)
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (SXM)
Attendees: (SYC)
- Attended (SYD)
- SteveRay (NIST) (SYL)
- PeterYim (Ontolog, CIM3) (SYP)
- OlivierBodenreider (NLM, NIH) (SYF)
- LeoObrst (Ontolog, MITRE) (SYJ)
- IvanHerman (W3C) (SYH)
- DavidWeinberger (Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society) (SYN)
- Expecting (SYE)
- FrankOlken (NSF) (SYK)
- BarrySmith (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo) (SYM)
- ChrisWelty (IBM Research) (SYO)
- Regrets: (SYQ)
- DeborahMcGuinness (Stanford KSL) (SYI)
- MarkMusen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI) (SYR)
- NicolaGuarino (LOA-CNR.IT) (SYG)
Agenda Ideas (SYS)
- ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes) (SYT)
Agenda & Proceedings (SYU)
1. Meeting called to order: (SYV)
- SteveRay took the chair and welcomed everyone (SYW)
- PeterYim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting (SYX)
2. Roll Call: (SYY)
3. Urgent Issues: (SZ0)
- Mailing list distribution issue - ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-01/msg00027.html (T09)
4. Outstanding Issues: (SZ1)
- introduction among the members (SZ2)
- aligning everyone's expectations as well as their understanding of our objectives (SZ3)
5. New Issues: (SZ4)
- 2007.01.18 Launch Meeting postmortem (SZ5)
- Organizing Committee Membership (SZ6)
- missing responses / confirmations (SZ7)
- more web 2.0 representation - maybe as convener; ping other organizing committee members for suggestion (SZ8)
- David (and his friend Peter Merholv) suggested: Gene, Karen, Margaret, Chiara & Paolo (SZ9)
- David will try to engage these people on our behalf (or see who else they would suggest) (SZA)
- invitations have since been extended to those individuals (T0C)
- as well as to PaolaDiMaio (current Ontolog member) (T0D)
- David (and his friend Peter Merholv) suggested: Gene, Karen, Margaret, Chiara & Paolo (SZ9)
- discussion: our deliverables (SZB)
- discussion: our approach & process (SZK)
- Nicola: short position papers (T23)
- Leo: hope the wiki page will help contain that ... with "gardeners" to administer them (T24)
- David / Steve / Peter : defining ontologies should not be the goal here ... more like reaching an understanding of what each community refers to when they say "ontology" (T25)
- Steve / David: think we should need to be "very approachable" and simple, at least at first encounter (T26)
- Ivan: no need to draw distinction between EU and US semantic web communities (T2A)
- Ivan: ChrisWelty is chairing a Rules working group that is also putting rules and reasoning into a similar framework (T27)
- Ivan: be careful on the use of the word "ontology" because it scares away the layman ... I use "vocabulary", but that probably isn't the right word (T28)
- Leo: I would make distinction between "terminology" and "ontology" (T29)
- Nicola: short position papers (T23)
- Assessment of current progress (SZL)
- distributing the organizing chore (SZP)
- engaging participants from specific target communties (SZQ)
- formal ontologist (T2B)
- XML community - OASIS - Peter to contact Patrick Gannon (T2C)
- semantic web communities (T2D)
- the Applications Development community (T31)
- database community (T32)
- UML community - Steve: will ask ConradBock & EvanWallace; Leo: ElisaKendall too ... it's great that they all straddle both ontologies and object models (T2N)
- software engineering / programmer community (T33)
- FOAF community - Ivan: it is spread out and no one seems to be leading now (T2K)
- Micro-Formats (GRDDL) community - ? (T2O)
- Concept Map community (T2Z)
- SEARCH community - ChrisWelty might point us to something given IBM's work in UIMA (T2P)
- wiki & semantic wiki community - (T2S)
- Web 2.0 community (social network, folksonomy) - David is championing (T2G)
- Thesauri community - ChristianeFellbaum (T2I)
- metadata world / dublin core / SKOS / Librarians / Taxonomists / KM community - DeniseBedford; Ivan also suggests Thomas Baker (T2J)
- ISO-11179 folks - FrankOlken is our man (T2M)
- drafting the communique (SZR)
- ... (SZS)
- Leo: 10 dimensions (see 1/25/07 post); get people to post under an appropriate subject line (SZT)
- Olivier: take advantage of the wiki; list the things that we don't want to discussed (SZU)
- Peter: as Steve mentioned, I'll "garden" the wiki, but I'll need help (SZV)
- engaging participants from specific target communties (SZQ)
6. Any Other Business: (SZW)
- to get W3C's official involvement in this initiative, Ivan suggests: (T2T)
- Steve will make a post to get the conversation organized (T2X)
- Peter will send an invitation to Thomas Baker and refer him to Ivan (T2Y)
7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: (SZX)
- it is agreed that the next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 6-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. (SZY)
- ref: world clock (SZZ)
- Regular Weekly Meetings: (T00)
- choice of regular weekly sync-up call time slot - 30 minutes, starting: Tuesdays 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST (T01)
- Nicola's preference Monday through Thursday 1:30~2:30pm EST / 10:30~11:30am PST / 7:30~8:30pm CET -- Thursdays are out because of a conflict with regularly scheduled Ontolog events (T02)
- Deborah's suggested: Mon, Tue or Wednesdays, 11:30am~12:30pm EST / 8:30~9:30am PST / 5:30~6:30pm CET; sometimes i could make 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET on friday (T03)
- Steve: The one day I can't meet is Wednesdays after 1:30pm EST / 10:30am PST / 7:30pm CET (T04)
- Ivan: Tuesday evening would be *ideal* for me at those times. Mondays and Wednesdays are not possible *at all* at those times. (T05)
- Peter: Tuesdays are ok now ... I have rescheduled other things to open up Tuesdays now. (T06)
- choice of regular weekly sync-up call time slot - 30 minutes, starting: Tuesdays 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST (T01)
- Call adjourned at: 9:02am PST / 12:02pm EST (T07)
-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.01.30-9:02am PST All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. (T08)