OntologySummit2007 Communique Session

= OntologySummit2007: "Communiqué" Session =

The purpose of this session is to summarize the discussions that have taken place in the past three months and, in particular, throughout the meeting

Session Details

 * Subject: Ontology Summit 2007 Workshop-3 - Finalizing the Communiqué
 * Session Chair: Dr. [[OlivierBodenreider]] (NLM, NIH) & Dr. Frank Olken (NSF)
 * Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2006
 * On-site Location: ...(tba)..., NIST Campus, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
 * Logistics: see also http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_04_19#nid103S
 * Session-3A: 8:00 - 8:50am EDT (50 minutes)
 * Break for Interoperability Week Plenary Session, 9:00 - 10:30am EDT
 * Session-3B: 10:40 - 12:00 noon EDT (1 hour, 20 minutes)
 * Start Time: 8:00 AM EDT / 5:00 AM PDT / 12:00 UTC (see world clock for other time zones)
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Session Objectives
This session will be devoted to discussing and finalizing the OntologySummit2007 Communiqué, and getting it adopted by the conveners. This Communiqué will be a key deliverable of the Summit and will be released at the OntologySummit2007_Symposium session that follows.

Resources:

 * OntologySummit2007_Communique

Agenda

 * 8:00~8:50am - session-3A: Welcome / Goals of this Session - OlivierBodenreider, session co-chair
 * 'Population' breakout group report by team rapporteur - Moderator: TomGruber
 * see: breakout group work products
 * LeoObrst on: group-A - BFO, SUMO, PSL, Engg-Math-Ontology - PatCassidy, LeoObrst, MichaelGruninger, ArturoSanchez, JoeKopena - audio (7m:16s; mp3; 0.83MB)
 * work product: spreadsheet entries
 * TomGruber on: group-B - del.icio.us, DublinCore, WordNet, ... - TomGruber, ThomasVanderWal - audio (11m:50s; mp3; 1.35MB)
 * del.icio.us
 * DublinCore - a faceted taxonomy
 * WordNet - a networked taxonomy
 * Tag-Ontology
 * CharlesTurnitsa on: group-C - EDCS, Geospatial-Ontology - CharlesTurnitsa, DougHolmes - audio (6m:49s; mp3; 0.78MB)
 * work product: spreadsheet entries
 * KenBaclawski on: group-D - GO, MeSH, ... - OlivierBodenreider, AlanBond, KathyLesh, HyoilHan, KenBaclawski - audio (6m:37s; mp3; 0.76MB)
 * work product: spreadsheet entries
 * BillMcCarthy (deferred): group-E - ISO 15944-4 - BillMcCarthy
 * work product: ISO-15944-4 assessment
 * PeterBrown on: group-Z - dimensions - PeterBrown, DeniseBedford, JimDisbrow, JackTeller, SusanTurnbull, BobSmith, CharlesTurnitsa, KenBaclawski, VincentReboul ... (tbc) - audio (7m:54s; mp3; 0.91MB)
 * work product: OntologySummit2007_FrameworksForConsideration/DimensionsMap
 * (this report was actually made after the plenary session break. Just leaving it with this part of the agenda for ease of reference structurally.)


 * 9:00~10:30am - NIST Interoperability Week plenary session
 * Conveners to join the NIST Interoperability Week plenary session.


 * 10:40am~12:00pm - session-3B: Communique
 * Framework Dimensions Sorted - OlivierBodenreider - audio (7m:43s; mp3; 0.88MB)
 * the Draft Ontology Summit 2007 Communique - OlivierBodenreider / FrankOlken - audio (1h:01m:03s; mp3; 6.99MB)
 * Discussion: review and finalize communique
 * see: OntologySummit2007_Communique

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Session Recording of this Ontology Summit 2007 Session

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 * Unedited recordings of the entire session is also available below:
 * Audio archive of segment before the break (34m:38s; mp3) - compressed audio (4.0 MB) / hi-fi audio (32.0 MB)
 * Audio archive of segment after the break (1h:19m:21s; mp3) - compressed audio (9.1 MB) / hi-fi audio (73.0 MB)


 * Credits:
 * Digital Recording - Many thanks for the excellent recording services provided by Audio-Video Services of NIST
 * Audio file post-processing - Thanks are also due to PeterYim and ArnoldYim for the excellent (and very labor-intensive) job of cutting, annotating, tagging and preparing the audio files for podcasting easy access on this wiki