OntologySummit2008/ContentCommitteeMeeting 2008 03 05

= OntologySummit2008 - Topic Champions Meeting - Wed 2008-03-05  =

The key purpose of this meeting is to discuss means to invigorate discourse through discussion threads and to connect the work of the Champions with the face-to-face program planning and resulting communique.

As Champions, we need to assure that the community can effectively explore, debate, deliberate and capture that content through our online discourse, between the Feb-27 Launch Event and the Apr-28 & 29 (2008) face-to-face workshop.

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 
 * Start Time: 1:15pm EST / 10:15am PST / 18:15 GMT/UTC
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Attendees:

 * Attended:
 * MichelleRaymond
 * PeterYim
 * FabianNeuhaus
 * PatHayes
 * LeoObrst
 * RexBrooks


 * Expecting:


 * Regets:

Agenda Ideas

 * (please insert content below; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)


 * Discuss "invigorating discussion" techniques (-- MichelleRaymond/2008.03.03)
 * Discuss tie-in to the Program Planners and F2F-Program Agenda (-- MichelleRaymond/2008.03.03)
 * candidate Panel session on ontology-of-ontologies on Apr-10
 * Perhaps a short plug by a Champion from each Topic Area. (-- MichelleRaymond/2008.03.03)
 * Plan for weekly(?) Content Committee meetings (-- MichelleRaymond/2008.03.03)
 * consider including brief topic area activity summaries given by one or both topic area champions (-- MichelleRaymond/2008.03.03)
 * consider planning on rotating through "details on a key topic" from one or two Topic Areas each meeting (-- MichelleRaymond/2008.03.03)

Agenda and Proceedings

 * Discuss Champions' roles


 * Discuss discussion thread management
 * the overlapping of topics in OOR [ontology-forum] and OntologySummit2008 [ontology-summit]
 * upcoming two panel sessions on requirements - 2/27 & 4/3/2008
 * candidate Panel session on ontology-of-ontologies on 4/10/2008
 * the overlapping thread issue
 * general "invigorating discussion" techniques


 * Discuss tie-in to the Program Planners and F2F-Program Agenda
 * iterative process
 * deadlines (?)


 * Plan for weekly(?) Content Committee meetings
 * for first mtg Perhaps a short plug by a Champion from each Topic Area.
 * consider including brief topic area activity summaries given by one or both topic area champions
 * consider planning on rotating through "details on a key topic" from one or two Topic Areas each meeting

1. Meeting called to order:


 * MichelleRaymond took the chair and welcomed everyone
 * PeterYim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting
 * review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:


 * see above

3. Discussion:


 * 'role of champion' defined - as facilitators - ... (Michelle pls add your definition back in)


 * raising [ontology-summit] traffic
 * currently, 48 people are subscribed (about 1/10 the size of the [ontolog-forum] list
 * suggestion: champions to initiate their thread(s) and facilitate the discussion (now that the facilitation role is clear)
 * Fabian: can put up parts of a paper they are working on at NIST to help get the discussion going
 * we'll keep the brackets (tagging the subject line properly)
 * champions to help keep the subject line in sync with the content as best they can (although the burden is on the poster.)
 * a paper (either a one page strawman or a long term journal paper draft) from each of the thread champion(s) could be a good way to get some discussion going


 * managing the summary pages -
 * possible reference as a template -- OntologySummit2008_RepositoryArchitecture

4. New Issues:


 * candidates for the ontology-of-ontology panel session - April-10
 * PatHayes to chair
 * PeterHaase (OMV) folks; MichaelGruninger on OntologySummit2007 framework; NatashaNoy; (W3C work on how the semantic web should be organized; OWL 1.1 folks?) possibly Bijan Parsia, Ian Horrick, Peter Schneider; Topic Map folks - Ann Wrightson, SteveNewcomb, JackPark, Sam Hunting, MichelBiezunski ... (Michelle) ; David Booth or Jeremy Carroll (HP Labs, Bristol, UK) (Pat)
 * Pat, Michelle and Peter will pull this together offline and report back to the team

5. Any Other Business:


 * if editors of the wiki need to copy another page as a template, please strip the purple numbers or ping Peter offline to get access to the tool (that would automatically strip the PurpleNumbers)

6. Action items:


 * each champion team to present a short plug on their thread at the next committee call
 * each thread champion team to have their strawman page up on their wiki "thread summary" page and a post (as an opening statement) to the [ontology-summit] mailing list
 * hopefully ready by the content committee meeting next Monday 3/10 or within a week of that

7. Schedule Content Committee Meeting & Adjourn:


 * next meeting: 1-Hr. call Monday 2008.03.10 starting 4:30pm EST / 1:30pm PST

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2008.03.05-11:33am PST All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.

Resources

 * Content Planning Meeting
 * Participating in the Discussion Threads
 * OntologySummit2008
 * OntologySummit2007
 * UpperOntologySummit (2006)

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