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Duration 1.5 hour
Date/Time January 11 2017 17:00 GMT
9:00 PST/12:00 EST
6:00pm CET
Convener KenBaclawski

ONTOLOG BoardOfTrustees Special Meeting

Session Chair: Kenneth Baclawski

Scribe: Todd Schneider

Topic: Planning for OntologySummit2017

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The chat room is http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/ontolog-bot_20170111

Attendees

Agenda

1. Report on the planning for the Ontology Summit 2017

There have been three Ontology Summit 2017 Pre-Launch meetings so far, and material for the topic and suggested tracks have been developed. See http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2017 for details. There are links to the Pre-Launch meeting pages as well as the track pages. The pages for the three suggested tracks are actually blogs.

2. Discussion of the topic and tracks for the Ontology Summit

See http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2017

3. Discussion of the starting time for Ontology Summit sessions

The doodle poll result was 12:30pm EST, the same as the current time of Ontolog meetings, albeit on a different day of the week. However, the participation level of the poll was not very high.

4. Formation of the Ontology Summit Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee is charged with the final selection of topics and tracks, and the selection of co-chairs and the schedule.

5. Scheduling the face-to-face Ontology Summit Symposium

This should be decided as quickly as possible because of the need to make reservations.

6. Discussion of the new blogging capability

I have succeeded in adding blogging to the Ontolog Community wiki. If you go to the main page of the wiki at http://ontologforum.org you will see a Blog tab at the top of the page. Clicking on this tab will take you to the page that has the blog procedures. The URL of the blog procedures page is http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Blog. Suggestions for improving the procedures are welcome.

7. AOB

8. Next meeting

Proceedings

[11:57] KenBaclawski: Agenda

1. Report on the planning for the Ontology Summit 2017

There have been three Ontology Summit 2017 Pre-Launch meetings so far, and material for the topic and suggested tracks have been developed. See http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2017 for details. There are links to the Pre-Launch meeting pages as well as the track pages. The pages for the three suggested tracks are actually blogs.

2. Discussion of the topic and tracks for the Ontology Summit

See http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2017

3. Discussion of the starting time for Ontology Summit sessions

The doodle poll result was 12:30pm EST, the same as the current time of Ontolog meetings, albeit on a different day of the week. However, the participation level of the poll was not very high.

4. Formation of the Ontology Summit Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee is charged with the final selection of topics and tracks, and the selection of co-chairs and the schedule.

5. Scheduling the face-to-face Ontology Summit Symposium

This should be decided as quickly as possible because of the need to make reservations.

6. Discussion of the new blogging capability

I have succeeded in adding blogging to the Ontolog Community wiki. If you go to the main page of the wiki at http://ontologforum.org you will see a Blog tab at the top of the page. Clicking on this tab will take you to the page that has the blog procedures. The URL of the blog procedures page is http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Blog. Suggestions for improving the procedures are welcome.

7. AOB

8. Next meeting

[12:23] ToddSchneider:

  • Using machine learning for developing and improving ontologies
  • Using background knowledge to improve machine learning results
  • Using ontologies for logical reasoning

[12:27] Ram D. Sriram: Suggest having a talk on what role ontologies has been playing in the success of AI

[12:29] ToddSchneider: 3 tracks @ 2 sessions + Overview session = 7 sessions

[12:32] ToddSchneider: Ram will try to get a backup meeting facility at NIST.

[12:33] gary berg-cross: Here is the Organizing Committee from 2014

[12:35] ToddSchneider: First option for symposium meeting is NSF.

[12:37] ToddSchneider: Possible Symposium dates 15-16 May 2017

[12:38] gary berg-cross: Marymount May 21 Commencement Day

[12:39] gary berg-cross: Georgetown commencement THURSDAY, MAY 18

[12:52] Donna Fritzsche2: hi - I can only stay for five minutes! I have a couple suggestions that I just wanted to post: Gerry DeJong http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~mrebl/

[12:52] Donna Fritzsche2: 2) CYC - best practices for reasoning with CYC

[12:53] Donna Fritzsche2: 3) Watson for healthcare (60 minutes report, etc)

[12:54] gary berg-cross: BTW, we have also had an Advisory Committee with plenty of overlap to the Org Committee but some additions for example:

[12:56] KenBaclawski: Donna, can you co-chair the Reasoning track?

[12:56] ToddSchneider: Proposed Ontology Summit 2017 Schedule:

  • 22 Feb 2017 - Launch
  • 1 Mar 2017 - Overview
  • 8 Mar 2017 - Track A, Session 1
  • 15 Mar 2017 - Track B, Session 1
  • 22 Mar 2017 - Track C, Session 1
  • 29 Mar 2017 - Synthesis Session 1
  • 5 Apr 2017 - Track A, Session 2
  • 12 Apr 2017 - Track B, Session 2
  • 19 Apr 2017 - Track C, Session 2
  • 26 Apr 2017 - Synthesis Session 2
  • 3 May 2017 - Communique, First Draft
  • 10 May 2017 - Communique, Second Draft
  • 15-16 May 2017 - Symposium

[12:57] Donna Fritzsche2: sorry, must leave now! talk to you soon. - Donna

[12:57] Donna Fritzsche2: probably Ken - who is the other chair?

[12:59] Ram D. Sriram: @Donna: I volunteer to the co-chair for the Reasoning track

[13:01] ToddSchneider: Using machine learning for developing and improving ontologies - Track Champion: Gary Berg-Cross

[13:01] ToddSchneider: Using ontologies for logical reasoning - Track Champion: Ram Sriram

[13:02] ToddSchneider: Using background knowledge to improve machine learning results - Track Champion ??

[13:03] ToddSchneider: Suggest changing 'Using background knowledge to improve machine learning results' to 'Ontologies and a priori knowledge in Machine Learning'

[13:12] KenBaclawski: @John See http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ProposedOntologyStandard

[13:15] ToddSchneider: Summit meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 12:30 ET.

[13:18] ToddSchneider: The 'blog' should allow notification by e-mail (from all or user selected blogs).

[13:24] ToddSchneider: Can the blog notifications include the content?

[13:27] ToddSchneider: First Ontology Summit Organizing Committee meeting will be 18 January 2017 at 12:30 ET.

[13:27] ToddSchneider: Ken will send out invitations for the 2017 Ontology Summit Organizing Committee.

[13:30] ToddSchneider: Matthew West runs the mailing list.

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