OntologySummit2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 27-Mar-2007 (VKF)
- This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 27-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC (VKG)
- Session Chair: (VKH)
Conference Call Details (VKI)
- Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 (VKJ)
- Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC (VKK)
- ref: World Clock (VKL)
- Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes (VKM)
- Dial-in Number: (VKN)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (VL0)
- view-only password: "ontolog" (VL1)
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (VL2)
Attendees: (VL3)
- Attended: (VL4)
- Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in) (VL5)
- BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo) (VL8)
- DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL) (VLB)
- FrankOlken* (NSF) (VLC)
- MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI) (VLD)
- NicolaGuarino* (LOA-CNR.IT) (VLE)
- Regrets: (VLF)
- ChrisWelty - standing regrets for the Tue time slot (VLG)
- TomGruber - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time (VLH)
- IvanHerman - (on trip) (VLI)
- SteveRay (at the dentist) (VLA)
Agenda Ideas (VLJ)
- finalize on the speaker invitations for the 4/23 & 24 F2F sessions (VLK)
- follow-up on the survey (VLL)
- Discuss - what could ensure us that we are bringing "value" to the community-at-large, with this "Ontology Summit 2007" endeavor? (VLM)
- organizing committee structure and protocol - distributing the workload (VLN)
- 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 (VLO)
- 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 (VLP)
- ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes) (VLQ)
Agenda & Proceedings (VLR)
... (Final Agenda Coming ... what's captured here is mainly from last week) (VLS)
1. Meeting called to order: (VLT)
- OlivierBodenreider took the chair and welcomed everyone (VLU)
2. Roll Call: (VLW)
3. Urgent Issues: (VLY)
- Peter: survey reminder/follow-up messages clustering various constituencies are out (VO4)
- finalize on the speaker invitations for the 4/23 & 24 F2F sessions (VLZ)
- ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit-org/2007-03/msg00045.html (VM0)
- still have no news from Nicola if he could possibly change his mind (VO5)
- Leo: 'Framework' session: suggested speakers - LeoObrst, MichaelGruninger, DeborahMcGuinness, MichaelUschold, ChrisWelty, BarrySmith, DeniseBedford, TomGruber (VO6)
- 'Populating / categorizing' session: suggested speakers - ChrisWelty, TomGruber, BillAndersen, ConradBock, EvanWallace, ElisaKendall, PatHayes, ChrisMenzel, JohnSowa, MarkMusen, OlivierBodenreider, DeniseBedford, DanGillman, ChristianeFellbaum, DougLenat, RobinMcEntire, Charlynn Clayton (Amgen), Bill Bug (BIRN, Drexel) / Maryann Martone (BIRN, UCSD), W3C Semantic Web HCLS interest group co-chairs: Eric Neumann, Tonya Hongsermeier; Susie Stephens (BioRDF taskforce), Vipul Kashyap (BioONT taskforce); also need to engage more European folks (VO7)
- 'Communique' session: suggested speakers - OlivierBodenreider, FrankOlken, CharlesTurnitsa, KurtConrad, BobSmith, KenBaclawski, SteveRay, AlanRector, ChrisChute, need to engage more European folks (VO8)
- Symposium session: suggested speakers - SteveRay, NicolaGuarino, TomGruber, chairs representing the workshop deliberation, someone from Europe, PeterBrown? ... (VO9)
- Leo and Olivier will forward our survey message to some of the folks listed above who are new to the initiative (today); copy [ontology-summit-org] for follow-up (VOA)
- Co-chairs should finalize their list and invite speakers ASAP (so that these speakers can make plans to join us and prepare their briefings.) (VOB)
- SteveRay: just emerged work priorities have now impacted my ability to devote more time to helping the summit synthesis work, please note. (VO1)
- how can we effectively use the rest of the open Thursdays (Ontolog time slot) to help with the summit prep work before the f2f? (VO2)
- follow-ups on the "Ontology Summit 2007 Survey" (VM1)
- cover-message/invitation at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html (VM2)
- survey form at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/summit72.html (VM3)
- deadline extension / reminder posted: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00052.html (VOC)
- Peter: survey reminder/follow-up messages clustering various constituencies are out (VOD)
- KenBaclawski to help with analysis afterwards (VOE)
- hopefully, constituency champions will help drive a dialog to clarify issues related to particular constituencies (and thus help the immediate next bullet) (VOF)
- cover-message/invitation at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html (VM2)
- getting the community-specific discussions going: (VM9)
- see (communities enumerated): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_DefinitionsOfOntology#nidTIS (VMA)
- and (champions we have in mind): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_01_30#nidSZQ (VMB)
- Discussion: (VMR)
- 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? (VMS)
- assigning wiki editors (VMT)
- volunteers: CharlesTurnitsa, KurtConrad, BobSmith, KenBaclawski, SteveRay, DeborahMcGuinness, PeterYim ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions) (VMU)
- 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 (VMV)
4. Outstanding Issues: (VMW)
- Session Planing: (VOG)
- scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium (VNB)
- Monday am: "The Framework" (Agreeing to the final picture) - Co-chairs: LeoObrst / MichaelGruninger (VNC)
- Monday pm: "Populating the Framework" (Endorsing the picture) - Co-chairs: ChrisWelty / TomGruber (VND)
- (Tueday early am: NIST Interoperability Week Plenary) (VNE)
- Tueday am: Finalizing the Communique - Co-Chair: OlivierBodenreider / FrankOlken (VNF)
- Tueday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Co-Chair: SteveRay / NicolaGuarino? (VNG)
- Keynote: TomGruber (VNH)
- Panel: ... (tbd) (VNI)
- ... we'll try to feature people who can represent the different perspectives of the various constituencies (VNJ)
- also: a diverse representation (geographically) (VNK)
- and, most importantly, by merit ... based on quality and substantive contribution in the virtual discourse and synthesis phase. (VNL)
- scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium (VNB)
(we are trying to come to conslusions even BEFORE the face-to-face) (VNM)
- drafting the communique - Olivier will try to get started with Frank on this. Issue, obviously is that the content has yet to emerge. (VNO)
- solicitng "co-sponsorship" - please endorse the initiative; they have to choose on the conclusion - Peter to do it - Peter will continue to work on this (VNP)
5. New Issues: (VNN)
6. Any Other Business: (VNQ)
7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: (VNR)
- ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list (VNS)
- Next Meeting: (candidate) unless otherwise re-scheduled (which we likely will) our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 03-Apr-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC. (ref: world clock) (VNT)
- Call adjourned at: 9:16 am PDT (VNU)
-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.03.27-09:20 PDT All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings. (VNV)