Ontology Summit 2008 Planning Meeting - Tue 2008.01.22

This is going to be a planning meeting (conference call) for the Ontolog, NIST, co-organizer and co-sponsor community to finalize on the theme and other pertinent details of the upcoming OntologySummit2008.

Please refer to:
- SteveRay's 2007.12.21 post - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-12/msg00166.html
- OntologySummit2008/Idea
- the (developing) Ontology Summit 2008 homepage

Conference Call Details

Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Start Time: 1:00pm PST / 4:00pm EST / 21:00 GMT/UTC
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Expected Call Duration: ~1.5 hours
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Attendees

Attended:

Expecting:
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Regrets:
- Chris Menzel
- Mark Musen
- Matthew West
- Dennis Nicholson (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
- Pat Cassidy

Agenda Ideas

ref. meeting announcement - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2008-01/msg00261.html
planning by the Ontolog, NIST, co-organizer and co-sponsor community to finalize on the theme and other pertinent details of the upcoming Ontology Summit 2008
- finalize the "topic"
- come up with a brief "charter" (to clarify the objectives and goals" of the effort
- decide on a "Launch Event" (another virtual meeting) date/time
- identify other immediate actions and initiatives

... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Resources

see community input on the OntologySummit2008/Idea page

OntologySummit2008 homepage

UpperOntologySummit (2006)

Ontology Summit 2007
- project wiki - OntologySummit2007
- message archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/
- presentation at the CEW#63 (2007.07.17)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

Steve Ray took the chair and welcomed everyone

Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting

review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

see above

3. Ontology Summit 2008 Planning - discussion:

Theme
- "Toward An Open Ontology Repository"

Objective / Goal / Charter (a mission statement)
- Purpose, Roles, Architecture, Quality, Compatibility of Data, Interoperability, Gaps, ...
- be real - have people bring ontologies to the table
- monitoring conformity, consistency,
- coherent objective way to discuss ontologies - a repository makes it concrete
- implementation

- Leo: see ISO-11179 based XMDR ... Steve: for tomorrow's discussion
- Ravi, ref: Leo slide#6 on the OOR planning meeting deck at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_03

Dates
- OntologySummitSummit2008 (Virtual) Launch Event to be held on Thu 2008.02.07 - ConferenceCall_2008_02_07
- Face-to-face (F2F)- Mon & Tue 28 & 29-Apr-2008 (3rd day open, Interoperability Week will still be in session) - 2008_04_28 - 04_29 - Monday~Tuesday: Ontology Summit 2008 face-to-face workshop, held during NIST's Interoperability Week (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - see: OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda
- informal poll - who can make it to the F2F?

4. What's Next:

Barry: need people create summary statement; someone managing the conversation

5. Getting Organized:

Roles needed - to get work done
- content group: one group to come up with the "threads" that need to be addressed
  - signups: Michelle Raymond (chair), Leo Obrst, Michael Grüninger, Barry Smith, Rex Brooks, Pat Hayes, Ravi Sharma, Peter P. Yim
- logistics group: another group to work out the logistics
  - signups: Steve Ray (chair), Peter P. Yim, Ken Baclawski, Carl Mattocks

6. Action items:

Barry: you can count on NCOR to be a co-organizer

7. Any Other Business:

The bulk of the discussion (after the first 25 min.) of this session has been recorded. The audio archive is available, in mp3 (~43 min. 5MB). Click here to download and listen.

8. Adjourn:

Call adjourned at: 2:20pmm PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.01.22-2:22pm PST

All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.

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