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OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 03-Mar-2008
- This is the 3rd conference call of the Ontology Summit 2008 organizing committee. The session is expected to be a ~1 Hour conference call.
- URL for this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_03
Conference Call Details
- Date: Thursday, March 3, 2008
- Start Time: 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST / 20:30 GMT/UTC
- ref: World Clock
- Expected Call Duration: ~ 1.0 Hour
- 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
- Attended:
- Peter P. Yim
- Michelle Raymond
- Leo Obrst
- Steve Ray
- Barry Smith
- Mark Musen
- Expecting:
- Regrets:
Agenda Ideas
- postmortem and follow-up actions on the Thu 2008.02.28 joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Session
- Peter: do a similar session on early-adopter content-provider (i.e.ontology developers and stewards) and their requirements & expectations?
- Peter: do another session on ontology-of-ontology?
- reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
- status review and action plans for the online discourse
- status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
- status review on how we are getting the word out
- proposing candidates for co-editors of the Communique draft
- ... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify 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
- review and adopt agenda
2. Roll Call:
- see above
3. Status / Discussion of developing issues:
- Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call)
- submit last year's communique to Applied Ontologies Journal [attn: Steve]
- Discussions:
- postmortem and follow-up actions on the Thu 2008.02.28 joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Session
- proceedings at: ConferenceCall_2008_02_28
- do a similar session on early-adopter content-provider (i.e.ontology developers and stewards) and their requirements & expectations?
- do another session on ontology-of-ontology?
- Peter will run this by the OOR team at the next call
- reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
- see latest update -
- Status: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2008-03/msg00006.html
- all invitations out, except for (f.2) & (f.3);
- accepted - 17
- declined - 2
- discussing - 3
- awaiting response - 14
- need candidates for: (f.2) EU-FP7 banner carrier, and (f.3) candidate(s) from Asia working in the domain
- we'll drop (f.2)
- (f.3): Barry will have one Japan candidate; Peter to pursue a Hong Kong candidate; Steve to propose a Korean candidate; we'll ping Ivan (Peter) and Bruce (Leo) for suggestion for other Asian candidates;
- status review online discourse
- we need to step up the level of activities here
- move the summary pages up ... under the Ontology Summit 2008: "What's New"
- Michelle to prompt the champions to put out strawman positions and get the various main topic threads going
- Peter: I was thinking of inviting certain discussion champions over to join us at the organizing committee call, but would want to discuss this here first, and maybe do it next time.
- Team: we should have this as a separate meeting, maybe same day (Mondays) right after the organizing committee meeting
- first call Wed 2008.03.05 1 Hr starting 1:15pm EST / 10:15am PST - Michelle to announce, Peter to help create the session page template (with Michelle doing the agenda and real content.)
- status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
- Steve: url for the NIST Interoperability Week will be available real soon,
- and with that to the registration pages for each workshop, including ours.
- Susan Turnbull will be hosting an Expedition Workshop on the third day of Interoperability Week (i.e. Apr-30) too; we'll try to invite our community to join her on that session as well.
- Steve: there will be no "plenary session" this year for Interoperability Week
- Steve to start setting up a preliminary time-table, and a draft agenda - to be out by next Monday
- Steve: url for the NIST Interoperability Week will be available real soon,
- status review on how we are getting the word out
- Steve: will get the NIST public affairs people to continue to help us with getting the word out
- proposing candidates for co-editors of the Communique draft
- Michelle: suggest we have an outline for the communique
- communique should be short ... almost like a press release, and a message from this team to the rest of the world.
- candidate co-editors for the draft communique - nominations - adopted
- Leo Obrst and Mark Musen
5. New Issues:
- potential conflicting workshop in Toronto on 2008.04.28~30 (ref. Doug Lenat's input) - Steve to find out
6. Any Other Business:
7. Action items:
8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:
- next Organizing Committee conference call - Mon 2008.03.10 - 1Hr. starting 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST
- see details (closer to the time) at: OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_03/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_10
- Call adjourned at: 1:31 pm PST
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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.03.03-1:32pm PST
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.