Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 20-Feb-2007

• This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 20-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET

• Session Chair: Frank Olken

Conference Call Details

• Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
• Start Time: 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET / 16:30 GMT/UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes
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• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated.

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Mark Musen
  • Olivier Bodenreider
  • Frank Olken
  • Leo Obrst
  • Barry Smith

• Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
  • DeborahMcGuinness*
  • SteveRay*

• Regrets:
  • Chris Welty
  • Tom Gruber
  • Ivan Herman
  • Nicola Guarino

Agenda Ideas

• finalize the "tag line"
• review iteration-2 of survey questions
• ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

• Frank Olken took the chair and welcomed everyone

• Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting

2. Roll Call:

• see above

3. Urgent Issues:

• Deciding on a "title" or "tag line" for the "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative.
  • Candidates: (see mailing list thread - http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-02/msg00051.html)
    • (a) "Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Terminology: Understanding the Distinctions"
    • (b) "Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Terminology, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions"
    • (c) "Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions"
    • (d) "Ontology Summit 2007 - From Logical Models to Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions"
    • (e') "Ontology Summit 2007 - From Folksonomy to Ontology: Understanding the Distinctions"
    • (e") "Ontology Summit 2007 - From Ontology to Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions"
  • Votes:
    • Olivier Bodenreider - (a) or (c) (interpretted)
    • DeborahMcGuinness - (c)
    • Leo Obrst - (a) or (b) (prefer (a))
    • Frank Olken
    • Steve Ray - (c)
    • Barry Smith - (a)
    • Peter P. Yim - (c)
    • Chris Welty - (c)
    • Mark Musen - (c)
    • Nicola Guarino
    • Ivan Herman
    • Tom Gruber

• getting the community-specific discussions going:
  • previous discussion:
    • 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
  • (proposed by Peter P. Yim on 2007.02.15): The overall Summit Process and the 6-steps to achieve our objectives - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_15#nidU8H

• leveraging our wiki editors
  • volunteers: Charles Turnitsa, Kurt Conrad, Ken Baclawski, Bob Smith

• deliberating on 'the framework' ... and getting it adopted

4. Outstanding Issues:

• Completed Task Report:
  • had a very useful session with some of the summit conveners at the 2007.02.15 Ontolog conference call - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_15#nidU8A

• Outstanding Issue Update:
  • pending responses
    • organizing committee / keynote: Dieter Fensel, TimBernersLee
    • conveners: Chiara F, Thomas B (pending - ref: "key participant" role confirmation); Patrick Gannon (need to review with OASIS staff)
  • organizing committee structure, protocol and distribution of work load

5. New Issues / Discussions / Insight:

• review and adopt iteration-2 of the Ontology Summit 2007 survey questions

• Mark Musen: within the biomedical communities, there are those who object to standardization, even in syntax

• Peter P. Yim / Leo Obrst: we only want to characterize the space and capture the attributes from the vantage point of each constituency

• Mark Musen: given the objective of this summit, it is important that we engage the folsonomists (web 2.0 people)

• Mark Musen: we should be very clear to people from different constituencies that they will all have a say coming to the table;
  • more specifically, the framework should compare, for example, (so that we are recognizing the differentiation and merits of each constituency):
    • 'how formal things are' (Mark), as well as
    • 'how easily their "ontology" methods can be adopted' (Mark) or,
    • say, even 'estimated size of a specific community' (Peter)

• ... (insert yours here)

6. Any Other Business:

• drafting the communique
• soliciting "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 27-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. (ref: world clock)
  • 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
  • Peter P. Yim: I won't be able to make the next call (Feb-27) ... will be traveling in Washington DC Area ... will be engaged in full-day workshop (CEW#58) at NSF on Feb-27

• Call adjourned at: 9:12 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.02.20-09:20 PST

All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.