Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 06-Mar-2007

This session will a 1-Hour conference call starting at Tue 06-Mar-2007 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET

Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
- ref: World Clock
Expected Call Duration: 60 minutes
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Expecting: ( * = not yet confirmed whether he/she will be dialing-in)
- DeborahMcGuinness* (Stanford KSL)
- FrankOlken* (NSF)

organizing committee structure and protocol - distributing the workload
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 on the wiki - devoting part of the 15-Feb-2007 Ontolog weekly call to do it with Summit conveners
... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

2. Roll Call:

Apologies about last week - someone needs to have the moderator access code to start the call. And that code is...

3. Urgent Issues:

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:

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 (adopted at this call)
- Peter to announce (and put out the survey too)

Surveying participants
- Peter: please review and comment on draft-2 of survey questions (for process proposal-2):
  - draft-2 questionnaire: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2#nidUFO
  - Peter to move ahead and release the survey; personal contact to targeted champions to get their inputs
  - Peter is working on a list of folks who could represent perspectives of various constituencies. He'll circulate it on the [ontology-summit-org] list for comments later today.

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)

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

drafting the communique
solicitng "co-sponsorship" - please endorse the initiative; they have to choose on the conclusion - Peter to do it.
Public Relations & The Press - Steve taking this on
- Steve already working on a pre-event press release; hopefully one or two articles out before the F2F
scheduling and programming for the Apr. 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings and symposium
- Monday am: "The Framework" (Agreeing to the final picture) - Co-chairs: Leo Obrst / Michael Grüninger
- Monday pm: "Populating the Framework" (Endorsing the picture) - Co-chairs: Chris Welty / Tom Gruber
- (Tuesday early am: NIST Interoperability Week Plenary)
- Tuesday am: Finalizing the Communique - Co-Chair: Olivier Bodenreider / Frank Olken
- Tuesday pm: The Symposium (public meeting) - Chair: Steve Ray
  - Keynote: Tom Gruber
  - Panel: ... (tbd)
    - ... we'll try to feature people who can represent the different perspectives of the various constituencies and those who made substantive contribution in the discourse.

(we are trying to come to conslusions even BEFORE the face-to-face)

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

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

Next Meeting: our next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 13-Mar-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET. (ref: world clock)
- Steve probably may miss (or join only partially at) the next call (dentists appointment)
- Ivan will not be able to make it next week, for certain

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.03.06-09:06 PST

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