Ontolog-NIST April-2007 joint event organizer preparation call - Mon 18-Dec-2006

Conference Call Details

• Date: Monday, December 18, 2006
• Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: 0.5 hours
• Dial-in Number:
  • from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
  • Conference ID: "5823120#"
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120

• Shared-screen support (VNC session) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
  • view-only password: "ontolog"

Attendees

• Attended:

• Expecting:
  • Steve Ray
  • Leo Obrst
  • Peter P. Yim

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Issues for discussion

• who has signed up so far

• are you/we institutionalizing this as an annual event
  • NIST is institutionalizing the "Interoperability Week" as an Annual Event
  • Ontolog & NIST will institutionalize this collaboration and will, henceforth, co-organize this "Ontology Summit" every year during the NIST Interoperability Week

• candidate themes
  • 1. Steve: Semantic Mapping (heterogeneity) ... Barry Smith counters w/ homogeneity
  • 2. Ontology Life Cycle
  • 3. Ontology Standardization - standard ontologies and/or standards in assessing ontologies
  • 4. Ontology Quality, Measurement & Evaluation

• event Title - concluded:
  • "Ontology Summit (year) - (theme)"
    • with the theme being community driven from year to year
    • Like: "Ontology Summit 2006 - Upper Ontology Summit"

• our position

• more co-organizers?
  • Ontolog and NIST will be the standing co-organizers, with others being invited to join us each year as befitting to the theme each year

• deliverables
  • virtual discourse prior to the face-to-face
  • a (set of) face-to-face conference(s)
  • a joint-communique stating our position on the selected theme for the year
  • ... (others)

• organizing committee
  • initial: Steve, Leo & Peter ... a few more people to be invited

• event date(s)

• timeline

2. Action items

• come up with an initial organizing committee (by invitation)

• setup the virtual collaboration infrastructure to support the discourse

• do a kick-off conference call with the candidate conveners in early- or mid- January 2007

3. Any other matter

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Follow-up Session: Friday, 5-Jan-2007

• Date / Time: Fri 2007.01.05 - starting 11:30am EST / 8:30am PST - 20~30 minutes (actual: ~70 minutes)
• Dial-in Number:
  • from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
  • Conference ID: "5823120#"
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120

• Attendees: Leo Obrst, Steve Ray, Peter P. Yim

• Discussion:
  • PPY: more ideas
  • Co-organizers:
  • Candidate Organizing Committee Membership:

• Action Items:
  • Steve was draft a one-paragrapher describing our thinking on the event
  • Leo, Steve and Peter will each try to contact and engage the candidates we have shortlisted and to invite them to join us in the organizing committee, as well as soliciting their institutions to be a co-organizer of the event
• next session - same time next Friday, 12-Jan-2007

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Follow-up Session: Friday, 12-Jan-2007

• Date / Time: Fri 2007.01.12 - starting 11:30am EST / 8:30am PST - 20~30 minutes
• Dial-in Number:
  • from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
  • Conference ID: "5823120#"
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120

• Discussion:
  • adoption of the event description - see: Ontology Summit 2007
  • contacting candidate organizing committee membership invitations
  • contacting candidate co-organizer invitations
  • Action items for the Ontology Summit 2007 kick-off - ConferenceCall_2007_01_18
    • most important to get a few more organizing committee members to join and names of other

confirmed co-organizers - please share this info first instance!

• • • Peter to setup the infrastructure - wiki event-home-page, organizing committee mailing

list (at NIST-interop; private list) and conveners mailing list (at ONTOLOG; open list)

• • • Leo to start the convener list discussion off with what we are trying to talk about and a

pointer to his "What is an Ontology?" work (ref: ConferenceCall_2006_01_12)

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Follow-up Session: Friday, 19-Jan-2007

• Date / Time: Fri 2007.01.12 - starting 1:45am EST / 10:45am PST - 15 minutes
• Dial-in Number:
  • from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
  • Conference ID: "5823120#"
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120

• Discussion:
  • 2007.01.18 Launch Meeting postmortem
  • Organizing Committee Membership
    • missing responses
    • more web 2.0 representation - maybe as convener; ping other organizing committee members for suggestion
  • Scheduling a first full organization committee conference call
    • Date / Time: Fri 2007.01.26 11:00am EST 1 Hr.
    • Agenda
  • Assessment of current progress - [will discuss this at the full organizing committee call)
    • seeding the discussion?
    • assigning / self-selecting thread moderators?
    • co-editor volunteers solicitation?
  • Any other issue
  • Action Items