OntologySummit2011: Getting Organized    (2KP0)

This is a scratch workspace for the organization, coordination and planning of OntologySummit2011.    (2KP2)

Theme: Making the Case for Ontology    (2KP1)

6th in the series of a 3-month open annual event by and for the Ontology Community. This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD    (2L7C)

ref. OntologySummit    (2L7D)

OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee Meetings:    (2O8B)

OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.05.13    (2RTW)

Conference call details:    (2RTX)

Agenda & Proceedings:    (2RU8)

 [ Audio Archive of the meeting ] ( 0:51:11 ; mp3 ; 5.9 MB)    (2RU9)
 [ chat-transcript (unedited) ] . [ chat-transcript (edited) ]    (2RUA)

Transcript of the online chat during the session:    (2TW2)

 see raw transcript here.    (2TW3)
 (for better clarity, the version below is a re-organized and lightly edited chat-transcript.)
 Participants are welcome to make light edits to their own contributions as they see fit.    (2TW4)
    -- begin of chat session --    (2TW5)
	PeterYim: = OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.05.13 =    (2TYX)
	PeterYim: see details at: 
	http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011/GettingOrganized#nid2RTW    (2TYY)
	anonymous morphed into AliHashemi    (2TYZ)
	anonymous morphed into SteveRay    (2TZ0)
	SteveRay: I suggest we add our comments here, so they are better captured.    (2TZ1)
	SteveRay: I felt we were "on schedule" during the whole 3 months, without a mad rush at the end to 
	synthesize ideas.    (2TZ2)
	MichaelUschold: People worked hard to link the tracks, cross referring to content in other tracks.    (2TZ3)
	MatthewWest: Apologies for late arrival. I'm on the call now.    (2TZ4)
	MikeBennett: @Peter - things we did not manage to fit in - e.g. there were a good few case studies 
	we wanted, but the early sessions were too short notice for some of these, and we did not get a 
	later slot which at the start we thought we would get. We needed to know a date well in advance on 
	which we could invite people to present, and we did not know if or when later dates would be, until 
	too late.    (2TZ5)
	SteveRay: One concern I have is that a lot of the great material residing in the track synthesis 
	pages will be overlooked.    (2TZ6)
	MikeBennett: So we should have carved out all of the dates at the outset.    (2TZ7)
	AliHashemi: To build on the point by SteveRay above -- I think we can do more to present the outcome 
	of the summit in a more accessible way    (2TZ8)
	MichaelUschold: We should follow up with some of the people that did not get a chance to present. 
	Additional case studies, for example.    (2TZ9)
	AliHashemi: The current state is throwing a lot of text at people at once, and isn't the easiest 
	artefact to read and/or engage with.    (2TZA)
	NicolaGuarino: Concerning use cases, one problem emerged was that the ontologies used in these cases 
	are often not visible...    (2TZB)
	MichaelUschold: Further to @Nicola's comment, there also needs to be more details on exactly how the 
	ontology was used, the architecture, and the value.    (2TZC)
	MikeBennett: @Nicola agreed. A lot of the case studies were a bit reticent about what was under the 
	hood - some of it was a bit proprietary. The ones we wanted to do later might have been less 
	sales-y.    (2TZD)
	MikeBennett: A possible follow-up action is to go back to the folks who presented case studies, and 
	get them to do a basic description against the framework (I did these by hand after, and it was a 
	bit vague in places).    (2TZE)
	MichaelUschold: I agrree with @MikeBennett    (2TZF)
	MikeBennett: With the Wiki it would have been helpful to be able to put tables up on the wiki. Maybe 
	this is trivially easy and we just didn't get time to learn the code? I saw some tables from others, 
	but when I tried to look at the code, these were gifs.    (2TZG)
	MichaelUschold: I agree with @AliHashemi, the results are not easily accessed, not so readable. 
	Needs to be different from the WIki, which was not designed for slick appearance. I often hesitate 
	to forward people to the site, for this reason.    (2TZH)
	MikeBennett: @MichaelUschold +1 - it's a good place to get things done, and we all hae had a chance 
	to get used to it, but for presentation to others there are not enought visual cues to let the users 
	know where they are.    (2TZI)
	AliHashemi: @MichaelUschold +1 as well. It can be even used a CMS, to drive content to other sites.    (2TZJ)
	AliHashemi: For layout, maybe something more along the lines of what the ACM is doing:    (2TZK)
	AliHashemi: http://mags.acm.org/communications/201105?pg=24#pg24    (2TZL)
	PeterYim: [action] Peter to put link of Communique pdf at the top of that wiki page too    (2TZM)
	AliHashemi: I shared a google document with you all regarding a (set of) documents targeted towards 
	media outlets: 
	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ueViQ8BhRHye64NlkgvH49wpgDev_aLrpwi79MZ5_O8/edit?hl=en&authkey=COb8q-sN#    (2TZN)
	SteveRay: Documentation activity: SteveRay, MichaelUschold, PeterYim    (2TZO)
	NicolaGuarino: We can think of a series of papers for Applied Ontology each one picking up a few 
	(more or less homogeneous) case studies, presenting and discussing them... We could appoint specific 
	people for this task... Of course these papers should be properly reviewed... What do you think of 
	this idea?    (2TZP)
	SteveRay: Second activity: Set up an ongoing collection of use-cases, build a sustainable activity    (2TZQ)
	MichaelUschold: Making the results more conveniently presented can either be done by a volunteer, or 
	we can find funds to pay a web developer, say to put something together that looks good.    (2TZR)
	SteveRay: Third activity: Redesign a more accessible presentation of results    (2TZS)
	SteveRay: ...where "results" means the entire body of knowledge    (2TZT)
	AliHashemi: I'd be happy to volunteer for the 3rd activity    (2TZU)
	PeterYim: one more observation: our visibility on the blogosphere this year has actually been lower, 
	compared to previous years    (2TZV)
	AliHashemi: It could be as simple as each of us, or asking those on ontolog who do maintain blogs to 
	post about it?    (2TZW)
	MichaelUschold: I did put my slide show up on 
	http://www.slideshare.net/UscholdM/making-the-case-for-ontology. It has 61 views so far.    (2TZX)
	MichaelUschold: I am interested in participating in an ongoing effort to gather use cases, improve 
	the usage framework, etc.    (2TZY)
	AliHashemi: Re MichaelUschold's point regarding paying a developer -- there is often a noticeable 
	difference, especially in web design, between amateurs and people who really know what they're 
	doing... Is there actually a possibility to fund the eventual design?    (2TZZ)
	MikeBennett: I'm happy to help with case studies work, time permitting. time a bit tight over the 
	coming months though.    (2U00)
	MichaelUschold: @Nicola, is the communique publishable as it is, as was done for the 2010 
	communique? OR does need a deeper presentation? or both?    (2U01)
	PeterYim: [action] MichaelUschold to formally submit the Communique (as is in the pdf) to AOJ    (2U02)
	MichaelUschold: Agree with @MichaelGruninger that there needs to be clear guidelines for describing 
	use cases, especially for a journal publication. E.g. some details of the ontology itself, the 
	architecture of the system, where the ontology fits, the role of the ontology.    (2U03)
	MichaelUschold: Maybe we can further develop the ontology usage framework, have it be required 
	metadata for submissions along these lines. We also need to write a paper that most perfectly does 
	the things we want, for others to emulate.    (2U04)
	MichaelUschold: signing off.    (2U05)
	AliHashemi: Perhaps also clarify different levels of detail at which the referred actual ontology 
	case study would have to be elaborated in a paper - building on the usage framework.    (2U06)
	MatthewWest: Here is the link to the paper (that aligns with MichaelUschold's suggestion of how 
	paper should be submitted) I mentioned: http://www.matthew-west.org.uk/documents/FOMI%20Enterprise%20Data%20Modelling.pdf    (2U07)
	MikeBennett: I'm going to have to drop off now (call at top of hour)    (2U08)
	PeterYim: -- session ended: 8:06am PDT --    (2U09)
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OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.04.08    (2QQN)

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OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.03.25    (2Q27)

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Summit Organizing Committee Members: please feel free to add your suggested agenda ideas below.    (2Q2I)

Please be cautious about the meeting time for this meeting, as some countries are moving into daylight saving time, and others aren't yet! Kindly double check on the world clock just to be sure! Thanks. =ppy    (2Q2J)

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OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.03.11    (2OKK)

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Ref. Steve's 2011.02.28 post and subsequent conversations, this meeting has moved one hour earlier (compared to previous ones!)    (2OL0)

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OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.02.25    (2N94)

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OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.02.11    (2M72)

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OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Fri 2011.01.28    (2L6Z)

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OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Tue 2011.01.18    (2L34)

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OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee conference call - Tue 2011.01.11    (2KP3)

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