OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2007 01 30

= OntologySummit2007 Organizing Committee Meeting - Tue 2007.01.30 =


 * Topic: First Meeting (v1.1, continuation) of the full Organizing Committee for OntologySummit2007


 * Session Chair: SteveRay (NIST)

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
 * Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET / 16:00 GMT/UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours
 * 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)
 * callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
 * Conference ID: "5823120#"
 * Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120


 * 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 [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com peter.yim@cim3.com] appreciated.

Attendees:

 * Attended
 * SteveRay (NIST)
 * PeterYim (Ontolog, CIM3)
 * OlivierBodenreider (NLM, NIH)
 * LeoObrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
 * IvanHerman (W3C)
 * DavidWeinberger (Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society)


 * Expecting
 * FrankOlken (NSF)
 * BarrySmith (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)
 * ChrisWelty (IBM Research)


 * Regrets:
 * DeborahMcGuinness (Stanford KSL)
 * MarkMusen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
 * NicolaGuarino (LOA-CNR.IT)

Agenda Ideas

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Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:


 * SteveRay took the chair and welcomed everyone
 * PeterYim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting

2. Roll Call:


 * see above

3. Urgent Issues:


 * Mailing list distribution issue - ref: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2007-01/msg00027.html
 * confirm now OK: Leo, Chris & David
 * still missing response from: Frank

4. Outstanding Issues:


 * introduction among the members
 * aligning everyone's expectations as well as their understanding of our objectives

5. New Issues:


 * 2007.01.18 Launch Meeting postmortem
 * Organizing Committee Membership
 * missing responses / confirmations
 * more web 2.0 representation - maybe as convener; ping other organizing committee members for suggestion
 * David (and his friend Peter Merholv) suggested: Gene, Karen, Margaret, Chiara & Paolo
 * David will try to engage these people on our behalf (or see who else they would suggest)
 * invitations have since been extended to those individuals
 * as well as to PaolaDiMaio (current Ontolog member)
 * discussion: our deliverables
 * 3 months of virtual discourse
 * 3 half-day face-to-face technical workshop
 * (a) ...
 * (b) ...
 * (c) ...
 * a half-day open public meeting (with press)
 * a written communique
 * new: how about a poster? (--suggested: ppy / 2007.01.22)
 * discussion: our approach & process
 * Nicola: short position papers
 * Leo: hope the wiki page will help contain that ... with "gardeners" to administer them
 * David / Steve / Peter : defining ontologies should not be the goal here ... more like reaching an understanding of what each community refers to when they say "ontology"
 * Steve / David: think we should need to be "very approachable" and simple, at least at first encounter
 * Ivan: no need to draw distinction between EU and US semantic web communities
 * Ivan: ChrisWelty is chairing a Rules working group that is also putting rules and reasoning into a similar framework
 * Ivan: be careful on the use of the word "ontology" because it scares away the layman ... I use "vocabulary", but that probably isn't the right word
 * Leo: I would make distinction between "terminology" and "ontology"
 * Assessment of current progress
 * seeding the discussion?
 * assigning / self-selecting thread moderators?
 * co-editor volunteers solicitation?
 * distributing the organizing chore
 * engaging participants from specific target communties
 * formal ontologist
 * XML community - OASIS - Peter to contact Patrick Gannon
 * semantic web communities
 * RDF community
 * OWL-DL (discription logic) community
 * OWL full community
 * the Applications Development community
 * database community
 * UML community - Steve: will ask ConradBock & EvanWallace; Leo: ElisaKendall too ... it's great that they all straddle both ontologies and object models
 * software engineering / programmer community
 * FOAF community - Ivan: it is spread out and no one seems to be leading now
 * Micro-Formats (GRDDL) community - ?
 * Concept Map community
 * SEARCH community - ChrisWelty might point us to something given IBM's work in UIMA
 * statistical
 * semantic
 * wiki & semantic wiki community -
 * Web 2.0 community (social network, folksonomy) - David is championing
 * Ivan: suggesting again TomGruber - Peter: DeborahMcGuinness will be the person to help us, hopefully
 * TomGruber contacted and confirmed (--ppy/2007.02.01 with help from PatHayes)
 * Thesauri community - ChristianeFellbaum
 * metadata world / dublin core / SKOS / Librarians / Taxonomists / KM community - DeniseBedford; Ivan also suggests Thomas Baker
 * ISO-11179 folks - FrankOlken is our man
 * drafting the communique
 * Leo: 10 dimensions (see 1/25/07 post); get people to post under an appropriate subject line
 * Olivier: take advantage of the wiki; list the things that we don't want to discussed
 * Peter: as Steve mentioned, I'll "garden" the wiki, but I'll need help
 * Peter: as Steve mentioned, I'll "garden" the wiki, but I'll need help

6. Any Other Business:


 * to get W3C's official involvement in this initiative, Ivan suggests:
 * contact Ian Jacobs  who is the communications chair
 * mention that Chris and Ivan are already involved in the organizing committee
 * W3C might be more receptive to "co-sponsor" than "co-organizer"


 * Steve will make a post to get the conversation organized


 * Peter will send an invitation to Thomas Baker and refer him to Ivan

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:


 * it is agreed that the next meeting will be a 30-minute conference call starting at Tue 6-Feb-2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET.
 * ref: world clock

possible *at all* at those times.
 * Regular Weekly Meetings:
 * choice of regular weekly sync-up call time slot - 30 minutes, starting: Tuesdays 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST
 * Nicola's preference Monday through Thursday 1:30~2:30pm EST / 10:30~11:30am PST / 7:30~8:30pm CET -- Thursdays are out because of a conflict with regularly scheduled Ontolog events
 * Deborah's suggested: Mon, Tue or Wednesdays, 11:30am~12:30pm EST / 8:30~9:30am PST / 5:30~6:30pm CET; sometimes i could make 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET on friday
 * Steve: The one day I can't meet is Wednesdays after 1:30pm EST / 10:30am PST / 7:30pm CET
 * Ivan: Tuesday evening would be *ideal* for me at those times. Mondays and Wednesdays are not
 * Peter: Tuesdays are ok now ... I have rescheduled other things to open up Tuesdays now.


 * Call adjourned at: 9:02am PST / 12:02pm EST

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.01.30-9:02am PST All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.