Ontolog Forum
UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-26
Call Details
- Date: Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
- Start Time: 12:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM EST / 20:30 UTC (World Clock)
- Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour
- Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
- Participant Access Code: "686564#"
Attendees
- Expecting:
- Regrets:
- Steve Ray (on trip)
Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas
- ...(please add suggested items here)...
- who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)
- PPY: short, medium and long term objectives
- PPY: our approach: "confined and focused" vs. "broad and inclusive"
- PPY: how do we involve all these different people?
- Pat & Peter: funding and fundraising
- PPY: getting buy-ins from the global standards community
Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda
- Brand Niemann took the chair and welcomed everyone.
2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes
- Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes
3) Roll-call of participants - see above
4) Urgent matters to be attended to
5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues
6) Follow-up from previous meetings
- responses from panelists to our invitation
- got responses from: Aldo, Matthew, Barry, Guarino, ... (Adam)
- Pat: talked to Matthew, he need permission, he'll get back to Pat
- Pat: have not been able to reach Aldo yet
- Leo: Guarino is still awaiting our response for travel funding
- got responses from: Aldo, Matthew, Barry, Guarino, ... (Adam)
7) Status review and ongoing discussions
- candidate particpants (various groups)
- see additions & work-in-progress under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIO7
- who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)
- Funding requirements, sources and approach
- candidate Mark Greaves of Vulcan - Leo Obrst to approach him
- Brand: Mark is also coming to the 4th Semantic Technology for eGov Conference at Mitre (Feb. 9~10, 2006)
- candidate Christy Welty of IBM - Leo Obrst to approach him
- candidate George Strawn of NSF - Brand / Peter to approach him to get NSF to be a co-organizer/sponsor, to pay for the travel and possibly have the speakers do a session at NSF too
- Brand Niemann: consider a joint proposal to NSF for funding the UO common subset, and possibly get EU funding too (cast this as a joint US-EU effort)
- Brand / Leo: the approach could be:
- (i) ask people we are inviting if they are willing to do a joint proposal for a program
- (ii) go to George Strawn to ask if they are willing to support the idea
- (iii) arrange a presentation of that joint proposal to NSF (say, on morning of Mar. 14, 2006)
- Brand / Leo: the approach could be:
- candidate Mark Greaves of Vulcan - Leo Obrst to approach him
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- Brand Niemann: candidate Tony Stanco - Brand to approach him about connecting to angel funders
- discussion space for prep work
- setting up a mailing list with org-committee, panelists & key participants as subscriber - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2005_12_08#nidIHW
- updating / posting work to the wiki
- Brand Niemann suggests we have a report as a deliverable from this meeting to be (among others) presented to FOIS Conference in Baltimore, MD Nov. 2006, also 5th International Semantic Web conference
- who will champion this?
8) New Issues
- Peter brought up the potential of doing a joint phone session with UN/CEFACT (who is having their meeting in Vancouver that very same week) during late 3/15 morning of the UO Applications Dialog session
- Pat feels that we should keep focus on potential "immediate users" (which Brand has a few in the eGov constituency). Therefore, we'll just pass on the above idea for now.
- will talk about when we will be inviting the key participants (outside of the panelists) next week
9) Action Items
- Leo and Brand - one paragraph write-ups for each of the prep sessions, (see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_01_19#nidJEJ)
- Leo: 3/14pm - Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation Meeting, and
- Brand: 3/15am - UO Application Dialog
- Pat to call all the panelists (even if they have not responded)
- if panelists are willing to do te joint proposal, Pat will add language to the "one paragraph summary" on UOS
- Brand to approach NSF / George Strawn in parallel
- Leo to approach Mark Greaves and Chris Welty ref. involvement, sponsorship and potentially funding for travel money
- Peter to start a mailing list for prep work by the panelists / key participants
10) Next meeting date and adjournment
- next call will be on Thu 2006.02.02 starting at 12:30 pm PST / 3:30pm EST (right after the Ontolog Nicola Guarino speaker session, which should end at 12:25pm PST / 3:25pm EST)
- call adjourned 2:05 pm PST / 5:05 pm EST
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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.01.26-2:12pm PST