Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 27-Feb-2007

• This session will a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 27-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET

• Session Chair:

Conference Call Details

• Date: Tuesday, February 27, 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:
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  • from Europe, call:
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  • callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
  • Conference ID: "5823120#"
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120

• RSVP to ray @ nist.gov is appreciated.

Attendees

• Attended:
  • SteveRay* (NIST)
  • LeoObrst* (Ontolog, MITRE)
  • FrankOlken* (NSF)
  • OlivierBodenreider* (NLM, NIH)

• Oddly, each attendee was told by the phone system that they were the only ones on the call
  • PeterYim: evidently, someone needs to be start the call moderator (with the moderator PIN), which I did not realize, and therefore, did not provide it to Steve. My apologies. (--ppy/2007.03.02-15:10 EST)

• Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
  • DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL)
  • BarrySmith* (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)
  • ChrisWelty* (IBM Research)
  • MarkMusen* (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
  • NicolaGuarino* (LOA-CNR.IT)
  • IvanHerman* (W3C)
  • TomGruber* (Tomgruber.org)

• Regrets:
  • Peter P. Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)

Agenda Ideas

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

Agenda & Proceedings

Note: Steve Ray appeared to be the only person who called in, so he made the executive decision after 10 minutes to adjourn the meeting. This was unanimously approved.

1. Meeting called to order:

• _____ took the chair and welcomed everyone

• _____ 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, Bob Smith, Ken Baclawski, ... (need more, hopefully from our community champions)
  • protocol & editor coordination - Peter: suggest we try to engage the conveners and devote a good part of the 15-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it

4. Outstanding Issues:

• Completed Task Report:
  • ...

• Outstanding Issue Update:
  • organizing committee structure and protocol
  • pending responses
    • organizing committee / keynote: Dieter Fensel, TimBernersLee
    • conveners: Chiara F, Thomas B (pending - ref: "key participant" role confirmation)
  • 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?

5. New Issues:

• Deciding on a "title" or "tag line" for the "Ontology Summit 2007" initiative.
  • Looks like (c) "Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions" is getting the majority of the support
  • adopt? - Yes / No

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: (candidate) unless otherwise re-scheduled (which we likely will) our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 6-Mar-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. (ref: world clock)

• Call adjourned at: 7:42 am PST

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notes taken by: Steve Ray / 2007.02.27-7:43 am PST

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