Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 6-Feb-2007

• This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 6-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET

Conference Call Details

• Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007
• Start Time: 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET / 16:30 GMT/UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes
• 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)
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  • Conference ID: "5823120#"
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• 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.

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
  • Ivan Herman (W3C)
  • Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR.IT)
  • Steve Ray (NIST)
  • David Weinberger (Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society)

• Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
  • DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL)
  • MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
  • Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
  • BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Fuffalo)

• Regrets:
  • Tom Gruber
  • Frank Olken (NSF)
  • Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, NIH)
  • ChrisWelty* (IBM Research)

Agenda Ideas

• organizing committee structure and protocol
• 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
• ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

• Peter P. Yim took the chair and volunteered to take minutes of the meeting

2. Roll Call:

• see above

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

• assigning wiki editors
  • volunteers: Charles Turnitsa, Kurt Conrad, Ken Baclawski, ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions)
  • protocol
  • training

4. Outstanding Issues:

• Completed Task Report:
  • W3C co-sponsorship confirmed
  • Tom Gruber - as organizing committee member and keynote speaker - confirmed
  • conveners: confirmed on board - Gene Smith, MargaretHanley, PaolaDiMaio, Karen Loasby; responded/pending - Patrick Gannon

• Outstandong Issue Update:
  • pending responses
    • organizing committee / keynote: Dieter Fensel, TimBernersLee
    • conveners: Chiara Fox, Thomas Baker
  • Mailing list distribution issue - ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-01/msg00027.html - still missing response from: Frank Olken
    • anyone else still having trouble receiving the [ontology-summit-org] distribution? - David? Chris?
  • organizing committee structure and protocol

5. New Issues:

• Deciding on a "title" or "tag line" for the "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative. Candidates:
  • Steve (the very original proposal): "Semantic Mapping or How we must learn to love heterogeneity"
  • "What is an Ontology?"
  • Peter: "Standardization Amidst Heterogeneity"
  • Peter (latest, and his favorite): "Shared Understanding Amidst Heterogeneity"
  • ... (insert yours here)

6. Any Other Business:

• drafting the communique
• solicitng "co-sponsorship"
• Public Relations & The Press

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

• ALL: we will continue the discussion of today's agenda items on the [ontology-summit-org] list

• Next Meeting: unless otherwise re-scheduled (which we likely will) our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 13-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. (ref: world clock)
  • David Weinberger mentioned that he cannot do Tuesday 11:30am~5:00pm EST
  • Chris Welty: I have a telecon every Tuesday 11-12:30 ET that I can't miss/
  • Tom Gruber: can't make this time on Tuesdays
  • Steve Ray: I can't make the Feb-13 call, but in general this time slot works for me.
  • see also: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_01_30#nidT00
  • All: let's try to pick another time (via the [ontology-summit-org] list) if we can find one that is more ideally suited to everyone's (if not, then, most of our) schedule

• Call adjourned at: 9:01am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.02.06-09:03 PST

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