OntologySummit2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 20-Mar-2007 (V8C)
- This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 20-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC (V8D)
- Session Chair: (V8E)
Conference Call Details (V8F)
- Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 (V8G)
- Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC (V8H)
- ref: World Clock (V8I)
- Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes (V8J)
- Dial-in Number: (V8K)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (V8X)
- view-only password: "ontolog" (V8Y)
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (V8Z)
Attendees: (V90)
- Attended: (V91)
- Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in) (V92)
- BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo) (V95)
- DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL) (V96)
- FrankOlken* (NSF) (V97)
- MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI) (V99)
- NicolaGuarino* (LOA-CNR.IT) (V9A)
- Regrets: (V9B)
- ChrisWelty - standing regrets for the Tue time slot (V9C)
- TomGruber - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time (V9D)
- IvanHerman - (on trip) (VBO)
- SteveRay (on travel out-of-the-country) (V9E)
Agenda Ideas (V9F)
- follow-ups now that the survey is out? (VBE)
- Discuss - what could ensure us that we are bringing "value" to the community-at-large, with this "Ontology Summit 2007" endeavor? (V9G)
- organizing committee structure and protocol - distributing the workload (V9H)
- getting organized to get dialogs from representatives of other constituencies (other than formal ontologists) going - review/add/comment on list of people who could represent various constituencies and contribute to providing their input and perspectives (V9I)
- 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 (V9J)
- ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes) (V9K)
Agenda & Proceedings (V9L)
... (Agenda Coming ... what's captured here is mainly from last week) (V9M)
1. Meeting called to order: (V9N)
- OlivierBodenreider took the chair and welcomed everyone (V9O)
2. Roll Call: (V9Q)
3. Urgent Issues: (V9S)
- follow-ups on the "Ontology Summit 2007 Survey" (VBF)
- cover-message/invitation at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html (VBG)
- survey form at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/summit72.html (VBH)
- please pass it along to related communities, post to other lists, blog about it, ... etc. (VBI)
- ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-03/msg00033.html (VBJ)
- posted the invitation also to: KM-List (gsa.gov), [protege-discussion] (VBK)
- blog posts seen at: (VBL)
- by Robert David Steele of oss.net: http://www.citizens-party.org/?p=122 (VBM)
- cover-message/invitation at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html (VBG)
- Discussion: (VAB)
- What could ensure us that we are bringing "value" to the community-at-large (or even the world-at-large), with this "Ontology Summit 2007" endeavor? How do we keep conveners engaged? (VAC)
- assigning wiki editors (VAD)
- volunteers: CharlesTurnitsa, KurtConrad, BobSmith, KenBaclawski, SteveRay, DeborahMcGuinness, PeterYim ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions) (VAE)
- protocol & editor coordination - Peter: suggest we try to engage the conveners and devote some part of the 22-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it (VAF)
4. Outstanding Issues: (VAG)
- Completed Task Report: (VAH)
- the survey is now out - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html (VCG)
- Peter will ping the various community champions for their survey response, and to solicit their help to synthesize and elaborate on the input representing their constituencies (VCH)
- survey responses close on 25-Mar-2007 (or shortly thereafter). We will then: (VCI)
- post the raw collected data (with organizations, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and expertise self-assessment removed) for the conveners to view, discussion and make suggestions (VCJ)
- we will analyse and synthesize the collected data (KenBaclawski has volunteered to work with PeterYim on this, so far) (VCK)
- Outstanding Issue Update: (VAO)
- LeoObrst and MichaelGruninger will drive the "framework" (dimensions, typology, ...) (VCL)
- DeborahMcGuinness also volunteered to help write this up (VCM)
- ChrisWelty & TomGruber to drive the categorization (VCN)
- OlivierBodenreider & FrankOlken will drive the communique (VCO)
- ALL: please do all internal exchanges and discussions over the [ontology-summit-org] list (so everyone else is posted, as all these task are so interrelated) (VCP)
- ALL: we'll try to engage all conveners in the process by using the [ontology-summit] list (this will help the adoption of the proposed farmework, categorization & communique eventually, which we will need) (VCQ)
- we need to try to come to conclusions (or at least very close to it) even BEFORE the face-to-face (VB4)
- LeoObrst and MichaelGruninger will drive the "framework" (dimensions, typology, ...) (VCL)
- outstanding - (not discussed at this call) (VCR)
- organizing committee structure and protocol (VAP)
- pending responses (VAQ)
- organizing committee / keynote: DieterFensel, TimBernersLee (VAR)
- conveners: Chiara F, Thomas B (pending - ref: "key participant" role confirmation) (VAS)
- Public Relations & The Press - Steve taking this on (VAT)
- Steve already working on a pre-event press release; hopefully one or two articles out before the F2F (VAU)
- Reviewed: (VCS)
- scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium (VAV)
- Monday am: "The Framework" (Agreeing to the final picture) - Co-chairs: LeoObrst / MichaelGruninger (VAW)
- Monday pm: "Populating the Framework" (Endorsing the picture) - Co-chairs: ChrisWelty / TomGruber (VAX)
- (Tueday early am: NIST Interoperability Week Plenary) (VAY)
- Tueday am: Finalizing the Communique - Co-Chair: OlivierBodenreider / FrankOlken (VAZ)
- Tueday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Chair: SteveRay / NicolaGuarino? (VB0)
- Keynote: TomGruber (VB1)
- Panel: ... (tbd) (VB2)
- ... we'll try to feature people who can represent the different perspectives of the various constituencies (VB3)
- also: a diverse representation (geographically) (VBQ)
- and, most importantly, by merit ... based on quality and substantive contribution in the virtual discourse and synthesis phase. (VBR)
- travel funding - checking MITRE, NSF (for speaker travel)? (VCT)
- scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium (VAV)
- Adopted at this meeting: (VCU)
- SteveRay & NicolaGuarino will be invited to co-chair the 24-Mar-2007 Summit Symposium (VCV)
- the 6-step / draft-2 process is now formally adopted - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2 (VCW)
5. New Issues: (VB5)
6. Any Other Business: (VB8)
7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: (VB9)
- ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list (VBA)
- Next Meeting: (candidate) unless otherwise re-scheduled (which we likely will) our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 27-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC. (ref: world clock) (VBB)
- Call adjourned at: 9:11am PDT (VBC)
-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.03.20-09:33 PDT All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. (VBD)