OntologySummit2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 06-Mar-2007 (UPY)
- This session will a 1-Hour conference call starting at Tue 06-Mar-2007 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET (UPZ)
Conference Call Details (UQ1)
- Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 (UQ2)
- Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC (UQ3)
- ref: World Clock (UQ4)
- Expected Call Duration: 60 minutes (UQ5)
- Dial-in Number: (UQ6)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (UQJ)
- view-only password: "ontolog" (UQK)
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (UQL)
Attendees: (UQM)
- Attended: (UQN)
- OlivierBodenreider (NLM, NIH) (UQP)
- PeterYim (Ontolog, CIM3) (UQV)
- IvanHerman (W3C) (UQZ)
- SteveRay (NIST) (UQT)
- LeoObrst (Ontolog, MITRE) (UQR)
- Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in) (UQO)
- DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL) (UQQ)
- FrankOlken* (NSF) (UQS)
- Regrets: (UR1)
- ChrisWelty (IBM Research) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot (UQW)
- TomGruber (Tomgruber.org) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time (UR0)
- MarkMusen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI) - conflict this week (UQX)
- BarrySmith (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo) - traveling this week (UQU)
- NicolaGuarino (LOA-CNR.IT) - moving (UQY)
Agenda Ideas (UR2)
- organizing committee structure and protocol - distributing the workload (UR3)
- Peter: adopting a title or tag-line for this "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative (UR4)
- getting organized to get dialogs from representatives of other constituencies (other than formal ontologists) going (UR5)
- getting organized to summarize/synthesize the mailing list discussions on the wiki - devoting part of the 15-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it with Summit conveners (UR6)
- ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes) (UR7)
Agenda & Proceedings (UR8)
1. Meeting called to order: (URP)
2. Roll Call: (URS)
- Apologies about last week - someone needs to have the moderator access code to start the call. And that code is... (URU)
3. Urgent Issues: (URV)
- getting the community-specific discussions going: (URW)
- see (communities enumerated): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_DefinitionsOfOntology#nidTIS (URX)
- and (champions we have in mind): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_01_30#nidSZQ (URY)
- action: ... (URZ)
- Ivan: consider asking people to identify what community they belong to (US0)
- Nicola: we catalog, and map out the framework (US1)
- Peter: ask various communities to put together a glossary of their ontology (or ontology-related) vocabulary (US2)
- Steve / Nicola: ask various community representative to where they think they fit in (US3)
- try getting TomGruber to present his view some time soon, that is going to help (US4)
- Discussion: (UST)
- Steve: steer away from the word 'ontology' and just ask other communities how they define their 'structures' (USU)
- Olivier / Steve: we should be the USGS (cartographers) rather than the UN (peacekeepers) of 'ontologies' here. (USV)
- Steve / Leo: start putting something up (a draft) so that people have something to talk about (USW)
- cadidates to drive the drafting: LeoObrst, MichaelGruninger, ... with support from Steve, Olivier (USX)
- start from the draft communique wiki page ... and have anyone contribute even small chunks (without major time commitments) (USY)
- maybe someone could start by drafting a table-of-content - Steve? (USZ)
- when ready for another round of reviews, someone makes a post to [ontology-summit] list (UT0)
- use combination of wiki, spreadsheet (google spreadsheet for collaborative editing, and excel for (UT1)
- assigning wiki editors (US5)
- volunteers: CharlesTurnitsa, KurtConrad, BobSmith, KenBaclawski, ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions) (US6)
- protocol & editor coordination - Peter: suggest we try to engage the conveners and devote a good part of the 15-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it (US7)
4. Outstanding Issues: (US8)
- Deciding on a "title" or "tag line" for the "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative. (USB)
- Surveying participants (USE)
- Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2): (USF)
- draft-2 questionnaire: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2#nidUFO (USG)
- Peter to move ahead and release the survey; personal contact to targeted champions to get their inputs (UT3)
- Peter is working on a list of folks who could represent perspectives of various constituencies. He'll circulate it on the [ontology-summit-org] list for comments later today. (UTD)
- Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2): (USF)
- Outstanding Issue Update: (USH)
- organizing committee structure and protocol (USI)
- pending responses (USJ)
- organizing committee / keynote: DieterFensel, TimBernersLee (USK)
- conveners: Chiara F, Thomas B (pending - ref: "key participant" role confirmation) (USL)
5. New Issues: (USM)
6. Any Other Business: (USN)
- drafting the communique (USO)
- solicitng "co-sponsorship" - please endorse the initiative; they have to choose on the conclusion - Peter to do it. (USP)
- Public Relations & The Press - Steve taking this on (USQ)
- Steve already working on a pre-event press release; hopefully one or two articles out before the F2F (UT4)
- scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium (USR)
- Monday am: "The Framework" (Agreeing to the final picture) - Co-chairs: LeoObrst / MichaelGruninger (UT5)
- Monday pm: "Populating the Framework" (Endorsing the picture) - Co-chairs: ChrisWelty / TomGruber (UT6)
- (Tuesday early am: NIST Interoperability Week Plenary) (UT7)
- Tuesday am: Finalizing the Communique - Co-Chair: OlivierBodenreider / FrankOlken (UT8)
- Tuesday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Chair: SteveRay (UT9)
(we are trying to come to conslusions even BEFORE the face-to-face) (UTA)
7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: (URI)
- ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list (URJ)
- Next Meeting: our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 13-Mar-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. (ref: world clock) (URK)
- Call adjourned at: 9:00 am PST (URL)
-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.03.06-09:06 PST All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. (URM)