Ontolog Forum
OKMDS: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 06-Nov-2007
- This is the 6th conference call of the organizing committee for the joint NASA-Ontolog "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support" initiative. The session is expected to be a 1-hour conference call.
Conference Call Details
- Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007
- Start Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 18:00 UTC
- ref: World Clock
- Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes
- Dial-in Number:
- from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
- Conference ID: "5823120#"
- Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
- from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
- view-only password: "ontolog"
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only)
Attendees
- Expecting:
- Regrets:
Agenda Ideas
- Tie down details of the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event
- suggest program content for the next 2~3 months or even the entire 6 months of the mini-series
- identify "discussion moderators" to champion/focus on particular questions we want to investigate/explore
- also, the logistics and mechanics of cross-posting to [KMgov] and [okmds-convene]
- define (ultimate) deliverables of this entire mini-series
- ...
- ... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)
Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:
- Leo Obrst took the chair and welcomed everyone
- Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting
- review and adopt agenda
2. Roll Call:
- see above
3. Issues brought forward:
4. Status of developing issues:
- Outstanding Issue Update: - continuing from the last meeting:
- Tie down details of the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event
- ref. last week's discussion (Oct-25):
- (suggested) general agenda for the Nov-8 launch event:
- Opening and welcome -- Peter
- Andrew and Jeanne will set out the agenda and the questions to be discussed to maintain focus as people get used to the environment
- 5 minutes for pre-brief. This will establish the context and set the focus.
- 15 to 20 minutes to go around the room asking each person to give a short introduction (NOT a presentation!) about themselves.
- 30 to 45 minutes for the main presentation done by Andrew and Jeanne.
- 30 minutes. Open discussion. Issues that were not addressed can be registered with the chat window.
- Conclusion / Follow-up - ask people to subscribe to discussion list, and actively discuss/debate the issues
- Agreed that the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event would consist of three parts
- 1. Initiative Overview
- 2. First presentation of the series by Andrew and Jeanne
- 3. Review of organizing process and communication options to ensure full participation by interested individuals - how to join discussion forum, listserv cross-posting?, RSS feeds, podcasts of sessions
- Andy: it will be one slide deck between both Jeanne & Andy
- suggest program content for the next 2~3 months or even the entire 6 months of the mini-series
- speaker sessions - candidate speaker, topic, date (for each)
- panel discussions - topic, chair/moderator, candidate panelists (for each)
- Suggestions:
- Peter: SOFI panel - Gordon, Glenn, Yim, cheyer, Baclawski, Cassidy, Bedford - aim for this being the next event early Dec.
- need date, title and abstract by the 11/8 Launch date
- Peter: Dialog mapping - Conklin, Shum, Park et al.
- Ken: ontology-based Dialog Planning for Relational Medicine - can probably cluster this with the baove item
- Susan: Morrison on IARPA funded research IC use of knowledge/decision environments
- ping Leo et al. if we put together a panel on the above focus
- Ken: "Living with Uncertainty" - panel on probabilistic reasoning and decision support
- Jeanne / Andy should probably have some great stuff at NASA we can draw upon
- Andy: ongoing stuff that may be of interest -
- (1) infrastructure stuff, building the metadata, standard development work, ...
- (2) the glamorous NASA stuff - interesting technologies to help do science, ...
- we should solicit something from the KM community
- Susan: Denise have started a "business narrative" working group that may be relevant
- we need to ping Jeanne, Denise and Nancy on this
- Peter: SOFI panel - Gordon, Glenn, Yim, cheyer, Baclawski, Cassidy, Bedford - aim for this being the next event early Dec.
- General consensus (from participants at this call):
- stay focused on our mission - ref. mission statement: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS#nid152K
- may need to reiterate between our mission statement and the programing to make sure they align
- identify who can be speakers at the intersections (not just the domain experts)
- have people from different community vantage points comment on the experts' presentations
- identify "discussion moderators" to champion/focus on particular questions we want to investigate/explore
- online discourse - topic, moderator, candidate (invited) experts to help lead & contribute to the discussion
- Kurt: how about having each member of the organizing committee to come up with 3 question for each of the main themes
- Susan: use the 8 question in our mission statement as the springboard
- we solicit the participants to come up with their questions, and the rights once will float to the top
- Ken Baclawski and Kurt Conrad will lead the online discourse
- we could even get the community to help focus the mission -- as a first topic
- Peter: Ken & Kurt, please be prepared to tell people (in 3~5 minutes) how to move forward on this during our launch event
- Online discourse - need to clarify on the logistics and mechanics of cross-posting to [KMgov] and [okmds-convene]
- define (ultimate) deliverables of this entire mini-series
- paper(s), publications?
- wikipedia article?
- content on the website - what? how? who?
- Discussions:
5. New Issues:
6. Any Other Business:
7. Action items:
8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:
- Next Meeting:
- Our OKMDS Launch Event - see you all there! - ref. ConferenceCall_2007_11_08
- next organizing committee meeting will be slated for 1-Hour starting Tue 2007.11.13 - 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT
- refer to details at the wiki session page (closer to the time) at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_11_13
- Call adjourned at: 11:00 am PST
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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.11.06-11:02 PST
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.