Ontolog Forum
Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 20-Mar-2007
- This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 20-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC
- Session Chair:
Conference Call Details
- Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007
- Start Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 GMT/UTC
- ref: World Clock
- Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes
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- Conference ID: "5823120#"
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- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated.
Attendees
- Attended:
- Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, NIH)
- Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
- Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
- Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
- BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)
- DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL)
- FrankOlken* (NSF)
- MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
- NicolaGuarino* (LOA-CNR.IT)
- Regrets:
- Chris Welty - standing regrets for the Tue time slot
- Tom Gruber - standing regrets for the Tue time slot; also, on plane this time
- Ivan Herman - (on trip)
- Steve Ray (on travel out-of-the-country)
Agenda Ideas
- follow-ups now that the survey is out?
- Discuss - what could ensure us that we are bringing "value" to the community-at-large, with this "Ontology Summit 2007" endeavor?
- organizing committee structure and protocol - distributing the workload
- getting organized to get dialogs from representatives of other constituencies (other than formal ontologists) going - review/add/comment on list of people who could represent various constituencies and contribute to providing their input and perspectives
- 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
... (Agenda Coming ... what's captured here is mainly from last week)
1. Meeting called to order:
- Olivier Bodenreider took the chair and welcomed everyone
- Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting
2. Roll Call:
- see above
3. Urgent Issues:
- follow-ups on the "Ontology Summit 2007 Survey"
- cover-message/invitation at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html
- survey form at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/summit72.html
- please pass it along to related communities, post to other lists, blog about it, ... etc.
- ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-03/msg00033.html
- posted the invitation also to: KM-List (gsa.gov), [protege-discussion]
- blog posts seen at:
- by Robert David Steele of oss.net: http://www.citizens-party.org/?p=122
- cover-message/invitation at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html
- Discussion:
- What could ensure us that we are bringing "value" to the community-at-large (or even the world-at-large), with this "Ontology Summit 2007" endeavor? How do we keep conveners engaged?
- assigning wiki editors
- volunteers: Charles Turnitsa, Kurt Conrad, Bob Smith, Ken Baclawski, Steve Ray, DeborahMcGuinness, Peter P. Yim ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions)
- protocol & editor coordination - Peter: suggest we try to engage the conveners and devote some part of the 22-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it
4. Outstanding Issues:
- Completed Task Report:
- the survey is now out - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00040.html
- Peter will ping the various community champions for their survey response, and to solicit their help to synthesize and elaborate on the input representing their constituencies
- survey responses close on 25-Mar-2007 (or shortly thereafter). We will then:
- post the raw collected data (with organizations, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and expertise self-assessment removed) for the conveners to view, discussion and make suggestions
- we will analyse and synthesize the collected data (KenBaclawski has volunteered to work with Peter P. Yim on this, so far)
- Outstanding Issue Update:
- Leo Obrst and Michael Grüninger will drive the "framework" (dimensions, typology, ...)
- DeborahMcGuinness also volunteered to help write this up
- Chris Welty & Tom Gruber to drive the categorization
- Olivier Bodenreider & Frank Olken will drive the communique
- ALL: please do all internal exchanges and discussions over the [ontology-summit-org] list (so everyone else is posted, as all these task are so interrelated)
- ALL: we'll try to engage all conveners in the process by using the [ontology-summit] list (this will help the adoption of the proposed farmework, categorization & communique eventually, which we will need)
- we need to try to come to conclusions (or at least very close to it) even BEFORE the face-to-face
- Leo Obrst and Michael Grüninger will drive the "framework" (dimensions, typology, ...)
- outstanding - (not discussed at this call)
- organizing committee structure and protocol
- pending responses
- organizing committee / keynote: Dieter Fensel, TimBernersLee
- conveners: Chiara F, Thomas B (pending - ref: "key participant" role confirmation)
- 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
- Reviewed:
- 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
- (Tueday early am: NIST Interoperability Week Plenary)
- Tueday am: Finalizing the Communique - Co-Chair: Olivier Bodenreider / Frank Olken
- Tueday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Chair: Steve Ray / NicolaGuarino?
- Keynote: Tom Gruber
- Panel: ... (tbd)
- ... we'll try to feature people who can represent the different perspectives of the various constituencies
- also: a diverse representation (geographically)
- and, most importantly, by merit ... based on quality and substantive contribution in the virtual discourse and synthesis phase.
- travel funding - checking MITRE, NSF (for speaker travel)?
- scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium
- Adopted at this meeting:
- Steve Ray & Nicola Guarino will be invited to co-chair the 24-Mar-2007 Summit Symposium
- the 6-step / draft-2 process is now formally adopted - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2
5. New Issues:
6. Any Other Business:
7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:
- ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list
- Next Meeting: (candidate) unless otherwise re-scheduled (which we likely will) our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 27-Mar-2007 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm CET / 15:30 UTC. (ref: world clock)
- Call adjourned at: 9:11am PDT
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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.03.20-09:33 PDT
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.