Ontology Summit 2007 Follow-up: CEW#63 Panels

This is working page for the preparation of the two Ontolog Panels that we are setting on for presentation at the Collaborative Expedition Workshop #63 (July 17 & 18, 2007 at NSF, Arlington, VA, USA.)

Background

Susan Turnbull featured the "community process" of this Summit on the Tue 2007.07.17 Collaborative Expedition Workshop (CEW#63 to be held at NSF, Arlington, VA, USA) as part of her exposition into the process, dynamics, potential and realities of a few of the exemplary virtual communities during that one-day workshop. T

Workshop Title: "Towards Stable Meaning and Records Preservation in Information-Sharing: Building the Way Forward Together"

Refer to the latest agenda of CEW#63 at: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardsStabilityInInformationSharing_2007_07_17

Description

As Susan Turnbull has it on her preliminary program, there will be two panels, one each on Jul-17 (Tue) & Jul-18 (Wed). Topics as described below.

Panel-1: Lessons Learned from Virtual Organizing for the OntologySummit2007
- Tue 17-Jul-2007 11:25am~12:30pm - total: 80 minutes

Panel-2: The Role of Ontology in Records Management
- Wed 18-Jul-2007 11:05am~12:30pm - total: 85 minutes

The Team

Susan Turnbull
Peter P. Yim
Steve Ray
Leo Obrst
Frank Olken
Denise Bedford
Elisa Kendall
Ken Baclawski
Doug Holmes
Also: (candidate participants that will add value to the overall workshop)
JoshLubell and RachuriSudarsan from NIST who ran the "Long Term Sustainment of Digital Information for Science and Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together" workshop during the 2007 NIST Interoperability Week in parallel with the Ontology Summit 2007 workshops
Rex Brooks and Bob Smith who are spearheading ontology-driven Emergency Management standards development activities.
- Bob Smith also Co-chairs with Denise Bedford in the OntologTaxoThesaurus Project which, among others, aims at taking some of the best practices from the World Bank methodology to ontologize the Ontolog body of knowledge.

Panel-1:

Panel-2:

Content Design

What: candidate Content / Message(s)
- Peter P. Yim can start by introducing Ontolog (the community, it's charter, and other background information) and Steve Ray can then provide an overview of the genesis, the process and some of the salient outcome of Ontology Summit 2007
- Leo Obrst can do an anchor piece on "the role of ontology in records management" to start the discussion on that topic
  - see some of Leo's talking points at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-07/msg00000.html#nid08
- Denise Bedford, talking on some of the World Bank taxonomy and ontology best practices and the OntologTaxoThesaurus initiative, will provide a bridge to her fellow World Bank presenter's talk at this workshop - "Records, Archives, and Transparency in the Development Community: Initiatives from the World Bank Group Archives", by World Bank Archivist, Elisa Liberatori-Prati (see: agenda ref.)
  - Title for Denise' briefing is: "Records Management Ontologies"
  - see Denise' World Bank references at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/reference/WorldBank-DeniseBedford-doc/
- Elisa Kendall, presenting on the MDA & ODM standards she co-champions at OMG will complement the other OMG talks at this workshop and help highlight our Panel-2 theme: "The Role of Ontology in Records Management"

How: The Delivery

The Plan

Process in general: anchors do a brief 10 minutes (15 min. max; say, 5~6 slides) to frame the issues; then go around the panel (5 min.; 1~3 slides) to bring out the salient points and get our message across; then open to the floor for Q&A and discussion

Who: (in order of appearance)
- Panel-1: Lessons from OntologySummit2007)
  - Steve Ray, Peter P. Yim, Frank Olken, Ken Baclawski, Doug Holmes, Denise Bedford, Panelists Exchange, Susan Turnbull, Floor
- Panel-2: Role of Ontology in Records Management
  - Peter P. Yim, Elisa Kendall, Denise Bedford, Frank Olken, Leo Obrst, Panelists & Other Ontolog Members, Floor

Agenda: (draft - as at 2007.07.16-22:20 PDT)
Panel-1: Lessons Learned from Virtual Organizing for the OntologySummit2007 - Tue 17-Jul-2007 11:25am~12:30pm - total: 80 minutes - slides
- Opening - Steve Ray & Peter P. Yim
  - Steve Ray: the Initiative - our goal, process, outcome
  - Peter P. Yim: the setting; organizers, sponsors and the 'broader' community
- Panelists insights -
  - Frank Olken: the community process to collaboratively developing a framework document
  - Ken Baclawski: populating the framework, survey and analysis
  - Doug Holmes: observations and insights - especially on the forum discourse and momentum of the work)
  - Denise Bedford: Ontology Summit 2007 and Beyond
  - Susan Turnbull: Susan's personal observations and insights; and open us up to the floor
  - Q&A, and discussion from the floor
Panel-2: The Role of Ontology in Records Management - Wed 18-Jul-2007 11:05am~12:30pm - total: 85 minutes
- Opening - Peter P. Yim, why are we here; introducing the panel
- Briefings -
  - Elisa Kendall: "Emerging issues in vocabulary management, ontology publication and specification management from an OMG perspective"
  - JoshLubell: "Standards for Long-Term Retention of Digital Information: Can Ontologies

Help?"

- - Frank Olken: "Potential Ontology Applications for National Science Foundation Records Management"
  - Leo Obrst: "Ontologies Can't Help Records Management ... Or Can They?"
  - Denise Bedford: "Records Management Ontologies"
- Panelists Exchange, and input from other Ontolog members at the workshop
- Q&A, and discussion from the floor

Resources

Archives of the Discussion List: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-07/
work-in-progress shared-file workspace: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/wip/cew-63/

Ontolog Forum

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