Ontolog Forum
Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 6-Feb-2007
- This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 6-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET
Conference Call Details
- Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007
- Start Time: 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET / 16:30 GMT/UTC
- ref: World Clock
- Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes
- Dial-in Number:
- from a telephone (US): +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
- from a phone (Europe): 0870-738-0763(UK) or 01805 00 7620 (Germany)
- callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
- Conference ID: "5823120#"
- Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
- 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.
Attendees
- Attended:
- Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
- Ivan Herman (W3C)
- Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR.IT)
- Steve Ray (NIST)
- David Weinberger (Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
- Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
- DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL)
- MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
- Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
- BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Fuffalo)
- Regrets:
- Tom Gruber
- Frank Olken (NSF)
- Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, NIH)
- ChrisWelty* (IBM Research)
Agenda Ideas
- organizing committee structure and protocol
- Peter: adopting a title or tag-line for this "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative
- getting organized to get dialogs from representatives of other constituencies (other than formal ontologists) going
- getting organized to summarize/synthesize the mailing list discussions
- ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)
Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:
- Peter P. Yim took the chair and volunteered to take minutes of the meeting
2. Roll Call:
- see above
3. Urgent Issues:
- getting the community-specific discussions going:
- see (communities enumerated): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_DefinitionsOfOntology#nidTIS
- and (champions we have in mind): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_01_30#nidSZQ
- action: ...
- Ivan: consider asking people to identify what community they belong to
- Nicola: we catalog, and map out the framework
- Peter: ask various communities to put together a glossary of their ontology (or ontology-related) vocabulary
- Steve / Nicola: ask various community representative to where they think they fit in
- try getting Tom Gruber to present his view some time soon, that is going to help
- assigning wiki editors
- volunteers: Charles Turnitsa, Kurt Conrad, Ken Baclawski, ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions)
- protocol
- training
4. Outstanding Issues:
- Completed Task Report:
- W3C co-sponsorship confirmed
- Tom Gruber - as organizing committee member and keynote speaker - confirmed
- conveners: confirmed on board - Gene Smith, MargaretHanley, PaolaDiMaio, Karen Loasby; responded/pending - Patrick Gannon
- Outstandong Issue Update:
- pending responses
- organizing committee / keynote: Dieter Fensel, TimBernersLee
- conveners: Chiara Fox, Thomas Baker
- Mailing list distribution issue - ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-01/msg00027.html - still missing response from: Frank Olken
- anyone else still having trouble receiving the [ontology-summit-org] distribution? - David? Chris?
- organizing committee structure and protocol
- pending responses
5. New Issues:
- Deciding on a "title" or "tag line" for the "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative. Candidates:
- Steve (the very original proposal): "Semantic Mapping or How we must learn to love heterogeneity"
- "What is an Ontology?"
- Peter: "Standardization Amidst Heterogeneity"
- Peter (latest, and his favorite): "Shared Understanding Amidst Heterogeneity"
- ... (insert yours here)
6. Any Other Business:
- drafting the communique
- solicitng "co-sponsorship"
- Public Relations & The Press
7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:
- ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list
- Next Meeting: unless otherwise re-scheduled (which we likely will) our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 13-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. (ref: world clock)
- David Weinberger mentioned that he cannot do Tuesday 11:30am~5:00pm EST
- Chris Welty: I have a telecon every Tuesday 11-12:30 ET that I can't miss/
- Tom Gruber: can't make this time on Tuesdays
- Steve Ray: I can't make the Feb-13 call, but in general this time slot works for me.
- see also: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_01_30#nidT00
- All: let's try to pick another time (via the [ontology-summit-org] list) if we can find one that is more ideally suited to everyone's (if not, then, most of our) schedule
- Call adjourned at: 9:01am PST
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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.02.06-09:03 PST
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.