ConferenceCall 2006 12 18

= Ontolog-NIST April-2007 joint event organizer preparation call - Mon 18-Dec-2006 =

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Monday, December 18, 2006
 * Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 0.5 hours
 * Dial-in Number:
 * from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
 * Conference ID: "5823120#"
 * Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120


 * Shared-screen support (VNC session) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
 * view-only password: "ontolog"

Attendees

 * Attended:


 * Expecting:
 * SteveRay
 * LeoObrst
 * PeterYim

Agenda & Proceedings
1. Issues for discussion


 * who has signed up so far


 * are you/we institutionalizing this as an annual event
 * NIST is institutionalizing the "Interoperability Week" as an Annual Event
 * Ontolog & NIST will institutionalize this collaboration and will, henceforth, co-organize this "Ontology Summit" every year during the NIST Interoperability Week


 * candidate themes
 * 1. Steve: Semantic Mapping (heterogeneity) ... BarrySmith counters w/ homogeneity
 * 2. Ontology Life Cycle
 * 3. Ontology Standardization - standard ontologies and/or standards in assessing ontologies
 * 4. Ontology Quality, Measurement & Evaluation


 * event Title - concluded:
 * "Ontology Summit (year) - (theme)"
 * with the theme being community driven from year to year
 * Like: "Ontology Summit 2006 - Upper Ontology Summit"


 * our position


 * more co-organizers?
 * Ontolog and NIST will be the standing co-organizers, with others being invited to join us each year as befitting to the theme each year


 * deliverables
 * virtual discourse prior to the face-to-face
 * a (set of) face-to-face conference(s)
 * a joint-communique stating our position on the selected theme for the year
 * ... (others)


 * organizing committee
 * initial: Steve, Leo & Peter ... a few more people to be invited


 * event date(s)


 * timeline

2. Action items


 * come up with an initial organizing committee (by invitation)


 * setup the virtual collaboration infrastructure to support the discourse


 * do a kick-off conference call with the candidate conveners in early- or mid- January 2007

3. Any other matter

Follow-up Session: Friday, 5-Jan-2007

 * Date / Time: Fri 2007.01.05 - starting 11:30am EST / 8:30am PST - 20~30 minutes (actual: ~70 minutes)
 * Dial-in Number:
 * from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
 * Conference ID: "5823120#"
 * Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120


 * Attendees: LeoObrst, SteveRay, PeterYim


 * Discussion:
 * PPY: more ideas
 * Co-organizers:
 * Candidate Organizing Committee Membership:


 * Action Items:
 * Steve was draft a one-paragrapher describing our thinking on the event
 * Leo, Steve and Peter will each try to contact and engage the candidates we have shortlisted and to invite them to join us in the organizing committee, as well as soliciting their institutions to be a co-organizer of the event
 * next session - same time next Friday, 12-Jan-2007

Follow-up Session: Friday, 12-Jan-2007

 * Date / Time: Fri 2007.01.12 - starting 11:30am EST / 8:30am PST - 20~30 minutes
 * Dial-in Number:
 * from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
 * Conference ID: "5823120#"
 * Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120

confirmed co-organizers - please share this info first instance! list (at NIST-interop; private list) and conveners mailing list (at ONTOLOG; open list) pointer to his "What is an Ontology?" work (ref: ConferenceCall_2006_01_12)
 * Discussion:
 * adoption of the event description - see: OntologySummit2007
 * contacting candidate organizing committee membership invitations
 * contacting candidate co-organizer invitations
 * Action items for the Ontology Summit 2007 kick-off - ConferenceCall_2007_01_18
 * most important to get a few more organizing committee members to join and names of other
 * Peter to setup the infrastructure - wiki event-home-page, organizing committee mailing
 * Leo to start the convener list discussion off with what we are trying to talk about and a

Follow-up Session: Friday, 19-Jan-2007

 * Date / Time: Fri 2007.01.12 - starting 1:45am EST / 10:45am PST - 15 minutes
 * Dial-in Number:
 * from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
 * Conference ID: "5823120#"
 * Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120


 * Discussion:
 * 2007.01.18 Launch Meeting postmortem
 * Organizing Committee Membership
 * missing responses
 * more web 2.0 representation - maybe as convener; ping other organizing committee members for suggestion
 * Scheduling a first full organization committee conference call
 * Date / Time: Fri 2007.01.26 11:00am EST 1 Hr.
 * Agenda
 * Assessment of current progress - [will discuss this at the full organizing committee call)
 * seeding the discussion?
 * assigning / self-selecting thread moderators?
 * co-editor volunteers solicitation?
 * Any other issue
 * Action Items