Ontolog Forum
Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 06-Mar-2007
- This session will a 1-Hour conference call starting at Tue 06-Mar-2007 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET
- Session Chair: Steve Ray
Conference Call Details
- Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
- Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
- ref: World Clock
- Expected Call Duration: 60 minutes
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Attendees
- Attended:
- Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, NIH)
- Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
- Ivan Herman (W3C)
- Steve Ray (NIST)
- Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
- Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
- DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL)
- FrankOlken* (NSF)
- Regrets:
- Chris Welty (IBM Research) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot
- Tom Gruber (Tomgruber.org) - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time
- Mark Musen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI) - conflict this week
- Barry Smith (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo) - traveling this week
- Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR.IT) - moving
Agenda Ideas
- organizing committee structure and protocol - distributing the workload
- 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 on the wiki - devoting part of the 15-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it with Summit conveners
- ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)
Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:
- Steve Ray took the chair and welcomed everyone
- Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting
2. Roll Call:
- see above
- Apologies about last week - someone needs to have the moderator access code to start the call. And that code is...
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
- Discussion:
- Steve: steer away from the word 'ontology' and just ask other communities how they define their 'structures'
- Olivier / Steve: we should be the USGS (cartographers) rather than the UN (peacekeepers) of 'ontologies' here.
- Steve / Leo: start putting something up (a draft) so that people have something to talk about
- cadidates to drive the drafting: Leo Obrst, Michael Grüninger, ... with support from Steve, Olivier
- start from the draft communique wiki page ... and have anyone contribute even small chunks (without major time commitments)
- maybe someone could start by drafting a table-of-content - Steve?
- when ready for another round of reviews, someone makes a post to [ontology-summit] list
- use combination of wiki, spreadsheet (google spreadsheet for collaborative editing, and excel for
- assigning wiki editors
- volunteers: Charles Turnitsa, Kurt Conrad, Bob Smith, Ken Baclawski, ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions)
- protocol & editor coordination - Peter: suggest we try to engage the conveners and devote a good part of the 15-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it
4. Outstanding Issues:
- Completed Task Report:
- ...
- Deciding on a "title" or "tag line" for the "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative.
- Looks like (c) "Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions" is getting the majority of the support
- adopt? - Yes (adopted at this call)
- Peter to announce (and put out the survey too)
- Surveying participants
- Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2):
- draft-2 questionnaire: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2#nidUFO
- Peter to move ahead and release the survey; personal contact to targeted champions to get their inputs
- Peter is working on a list of folks who could represent perspectives of various constituencies. He'll circulate it on the [ontology-summit-org] list for comments later today.
- Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2):
- Outstanding Issue Update:
- organizing committee structure and protocol
- pending responses
- organizing committee / keynote: Dieter Fensel, TimBernersLee
- conveners: Chiara F, Thomas B (pending - ref: "key participant" role confirmation)
5. New Issues:
6. Any Other Business:
- drafting the communique
- solicitng "co-sponsorship" - please endorse the initiative; they have to choose on the conclusion - Peter to do it.
- Public Relations & The Press - Steve taking this on
- Steve already working on a pre-event press release; hopefully one or two articles out before the F2F
- scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium
- Monday am: "The Framework" (Agreeing to the final picture) - Co-chairs: Leo Obrst / Michael Grüninger
- Monday pm: "Populating the Framework" (Endorsing the picture) - Co-chairs: Chris Welty / Tom Gruber
- (Tuesday early am: NIST Interoperability Week Plenary)
- Tuesday am: Finalizing the Communique - Co-Chair: Olivier Bodenreider / Frank Olken
- Tuesday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Chair: Steve Ray
- Keynote: Tom Gruber
- Panel: ... (tbd)
- ... we'll try to feature people who can represent the different perspectives of the various constituencies and those who made substantive contribution in the discourse.
- (we are trying to come to conslusions even BEFORE the face-to-face)
7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:
- ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list
- Next Meeting: our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 13-Mar-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. (ref: world clock)
- Steve probably may miss (or join only partially at) the next call (dentists appointment)
- Ivan will not be able to make it next week, for certain
- Call adjourned at: 9:00 am PST
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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.03.06-09:06 PST
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.