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= [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] Organizing Committee Meeting - Tue 2007.01.30  =

* '''Topic: First Meeting (v1.1, continuation) of the full Organizing Committee for OntologySummit2007''' 

* '''Session Chair: SteveRay''' (NIST) 

=== [[MeetingsCalls|Conference Call]] Details  ===

* Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 
* Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC 
** ref: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=30&year=2007&hour=8&min=0&sec=0&p1=224 World Clock] 
* Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours 
* Dial-in Number: 
** from a telephone (US): +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA) 
** from a phone (Europe): 0870-738-0763(UK) or 01805 00 7620 (Germany) 
** callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers 
** Conference ID: "5823120#" 
** Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120 

* 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 [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com peter.yim@cim3.com] appreciated.'' 

=== Attendees  ===

* Attended 
** [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] (NIST) 
** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] (Ontolog, CIM3) 
** [[OlivierBodenreider|Olivier Bodenreider]] (NLM, NIH) 
** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] (Ontolog, MITRE) 
** [[IvanHerman|Ivan Herman]] (W3C) 
** [[DavidWeinberger|David Weinberger]] (Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society) 

* Expecting 
** [[FrankOlken|Frank Olken]] (NSF) 
** [[BarrySmith|Barry Smith]] (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo) 
** [[ChrisWelty|Chris Welty]] (IBM Research) 

* Regrets: 
** [[DeborahMcGuinness]] (Stanford KSL) 
** Mark Musen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI) 
** Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR.IT) 

=== Agenda Ideas  ===

* '' ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)'' 

== Agenda & Proceedings  ==

1. Meeting called to order: 

* [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] took the chair and welcomed everyone 
* [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] volunteered to take minutes of the meeting 

2. Roll Call: 

* see [http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_01_30#nidSYD above] 

3. Urgent Issues: 

* Mailing list distribution issue - ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-01/msg00027.html 
** confirm now OK: Leo, Chris & David 
** still missing response from: Frank 

4. Outstanding Issues: 

* introduction among the members 
* aligning everyone's expectations as well as their understanding of our objectives 

5. New Issues: 

* [[ConferenceCall_2007_01_18|2007.01.18 Launch Meeting]] postmortem 
* [[OntologySummit2007|Organizing Committee Membership]] 
** missing responses / confirmations 
** more web 2.0 representation - maybe as convener; ping other organizing committee members for suggestion 
*** David (and his friend Peter Merholv) suggested: Gene, Karen, Margaret, Chiara & Paolo 
**** David will try to engage these people on our behalf (or see who else they would suggest) 
*** invitations have since been extended to those individuals 
*** as well as to [[PaolaDiMaio]] (current Ontolog member) 
* discussion: our deliverables 
** 3 months of virtual discourse 
** 3 half-day face-to-face technical workshop 
*** (a) ... 
*** (b) ... 
*** (c) ... 
** a half-day open public meeting (with press) 
** a written communique 
** new: how about a poster? (--suggested: ppy / 2007.01.22) 
* discussion: our approach & process 
** Nicola: short position papers 
*** Leo: hope the wiki page will help contain that ... with "gardeners" to administer them 
** David / Steve / Peter : defining ontologies should not be the goal here ... more like reaching an understanding of what each community refers to when they say "ontology" 
*** Steve / David: think we should need to be "very approachable" and simple, at least at first encounter 
** Ivan: no need to draw distinction between EU and US semantic web communities 
** Ivan: [[ChrisWelty|Chris Welty]] is chairing a Rules working group that is also putting rules and reasoning into a similar framework 
** Ivan: be careful on the use of the word "ontology" because it scares away the layman ... I use "vocabulary", but that probably isn't the right word 
*** Leo: I would make distinction between "terminology" and "ontology" 
* Assessment of current progress 
** seeding the discussion? 
** assigning / self-selecting thread moderators? 
** co-editor volunteers solicitation? 
* distributing the organizing chore 
** engaging participants from specific target communties 
*** formal ontologist 
*** XML community - OASIS - Peter to contact Patrick Gannon 
*** semantic web communities 
**** RDF community 
**** OWL-DL (discription logic) community 
**** OWL full community 
*** the Applications Development community 
**** database community 
**** UML community - Steve: will ask [[ConradBock|Conrad Bock]] & [[EvanWallace|Evan Wallace]]; Leo: [[ElisaKendall|Elisa Kendall]] too ... it's great that they all straddle both ontologies and object models 
**** software engineering / programmer community 
*** [[FOAF]] community - Ivan: it is spread out and no one seems to be leading now 
*** Micro-Formats ([[GRDDL]]) community - ? 
*** Concept Map community 
*** SEARCH community - [[ChrisWelty|Chris Welty]] might point us to something given IBM's work in UIMA 
**** statistical 
**** semantic 
*** wiki & semantic wiki community - 
*** Web 2.0 community (social network, folksonomy) - David is championing 
**** Ivan: suggesting again Tom Gruber - Peter: [[DeborahMcGuinness]] will be the person to help us, hopefully 
***** Tom Gruber contacted and confirmed (--ppy/2007.02.01 with help from PatHayes) 
*** Thesauri community - [[ChristianeFellbaum|Christiane Fellbaum]] 
*** metadata world / dublin core / SKOS / Librarians / Taxonomists / KM community - [[DeniseBedford|Denise Bedford]]; Ivan also suggests Thomas Baker 
*** ISO-11179 folks - [[FrankOlken|Frank Olken]] is our man 
** drafting the communique 
** ... 
** Leo: 10 dimensions (see 1/25/07 post); get people to post under an appropriate subject line 
** Olivier: take advantage of the wiki; list the things that we don't want to discussed 
** Peter: as Steve mentioned, I'll "garden" the wiki, but I'll need help 

6. Any Other Business: 

* to get W3C's official involvement in this initiative, Ivan suggests: 
** contact Ian Jacobs <ij-at-w3.org> who is the communications chair 
** mention that Chris and Ivan are already involved in the organizing committee 
** W3C might be more receptive to "co-sponsor" than "co-organizer" 

* Steve will make a post to get the conversation organized 

* Peter will send an invitation to Thomas Baker and refer him to Ivan 

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn: 

* it is agreed that the next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 6-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. 
** ref: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=6&year=2007&hour=8&min=30&sec=0&p1=224 world clock] 

* Regular Weekly Meetings: 
** choice of regular weekly sync-up call time slot - 30 minutes, starting: Tuesdays 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST 
*** Nicola's preference Monday through Thursday 1:30~2:30pm EST / 10:30~11:30am PST / 7:30~8:30pm CET -- Thursdays are out because of a conflict with regularly scheduled Ontolog events 
** Deborah's suggested: Mon, Tue or Wednesdays,  11:30am~12:30pm EST / 8:30~9:30am PST / 5:30~6:30pm CET; sometimes i could make 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET on friday 
** Steve: The one day I can't meet is Wednesdays after 1:30pm EST / 10:30am PST / 7:30pm CET 
** Ivan: Tuesday evening would be *ideal* for me at those times. Mondays and Wednesdays are not
possible *at all* at those times. 
** Peter: Tuesdays are ok now ... I have rescheduled other things to open up Tuesdays now. 

* Call adjourned at: 9:02am PST / 12:02pm EST 

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notes taken by: [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / 2007.01.30-9:02am PST

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

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