OKMDS: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 06-Nov-2007

• This is the 6th conference call of the organizing committee for the joint NASA-Ontolog "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support" initiative. The session is expected to be a 1-hour conference call.

Conference Call Details

• Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• Start Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 18:00 UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: 30 minutes
• Dial-in Number:
  • from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
    • 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 peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only)

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Susan Turnbull
  • Kurt Conrad
  • Leo Obrst
  • Andrew Schain
  • Ken Baclawski

• Expecting:
  • Nancy Faget
  • Denise Bedford

• Regrets:
  • Jeanne Holm
  • Steve Ray

Agenda Ideas

• Tie down details of the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event
• suggest program content for the next 2~3 months or even the entire 6 months of the mini-series
• identify "discussion moderators" to champion/focus on particular questions we want to investigate/explore
  • also, the logistics and mechanics of cross-posting to [KMgov] and [okmds-convene]
• define (ultimate) deliverables of this entire mini-series
• ...

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

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

• Leo Obrst 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. Issues brought forward:

4. Status of developing issues:

• Outstanding Issue Update: - continuing from the last meeting:

• Tie down details of the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event
  • ref. last week's discussion (Oct-25):
  • (suggested) general agenda for the Nov-8 launch event:
    • Opening and welcome -- Peter
    • Andrew and Jeanne will set out the agenda and the questions to be discussed to maintain focus as people get used to the environment
    • 5 minutes for pre-brief. This will establish the context and set the focus.
    • 15 to 20 minutes to go around the room asking each person to give a short introduction (NOT a presentation!) about themselves.
    • 30 to 45 minutes for the main presentation done by Andrew and Jeanne.
    • 30 minutes. Open discussion. Issues that were not addressed can be registered with the chat window.
    • Conclusion / Follow-up - ask people to subscribe to discussion list, and actively discuss/debate the issues
  • Agreed that the 08-Nov-2007 OKMDS Launch Event would consist of three parts
    • 1. Initiative Overview
    • 2. First presentation of the series by Andrew and Jeanne
    • 3. Review of organizing process and communication options to ensure full participation by interested individuals - how to join discussion forum, listserv cross-posting?, RSS feeds, podcasts of sessions
  • Andy: it will be one slide deck between both Jeanne & Andy

• suggest program content for the next 2~3 months or even the entire 6 months of the mini-series
  • speaker sessions - candidate speaker, topic, date (for each)
  • panel discussions - topic, chair/moderator, candidate panelists (for each)
  • Suggestions:
    • Peter: SOFI panel - Gordon, Glenn, Yim, cheyer, Baclawski, Cassidy, Bedford - aim for this being the next event early Dec.
      • need date, title and abstract by the 11/8 Launch date
    • Peter: Dialog mapping - Conklin, Shum, Park et al.
    • Ken: ontology-based Dialog Planning for Relational Medicine - can probably cluster this with the baove item
    • Susan: Morrison on IARPA funded research IC use of knowledge/decision environments
      • ping Leo et al. if we put together a panel on the above focus
    • Ken: "Living with Uncertainty" - panel on probabilistic reasoning and decision support
    • Jeanne / Andy should probably have some great stuff at NASA we can draw upon
    • Andy: ongoing stuff that may be of interest -
      • (1) infrastructure stuff, building the metadata, standard development work, ...
      • (2) the glamorous NASA stuff - interesting technologies to help do science, ...
    • we should solicit something from the KM community
      • Susan: Denise have started a "business narrative" working group that may be relevant
      • we need to ping Jeanne, Denise and Nancy on this

• General consensus (from participants at this call):
  • stay focused on our mission - ref. mission statement: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS#nid152K
  • may need to reiterate between our mission statement and the programing to make sure they align
  • identify who can be speakers at the intersections (not just the domain experts)
  • have people from different community vantage points comment on the experts' presentations

• identify "discussion moderators" to champion/focus on particular questions we want to investigate/explore
  • online discourse - topic, moderator, candidate (invited) experts to help lead & contribute to the discussion
  • Kurt: how about having each member of the organizing committee to come up with 3 question for each of the main themes
  • Susan: use the 8 question in our mission statement as the springboard
    • we solicit the participants to come up with their questions, and the rights once will float to the top
  • Ken Baclawski and Kurt Conrad will lead the online discourse
    • we could even get the community to help focus the mission -- as a first topic
    • Peter: Ken & Kurt, please be prepared to tell people (in 3~5 minutes) how to move forward on this during our launch event

• Online discourse - need to clarify on the logistics and mechanics of cross-posting to [KMgov] and [okmds-convene]

• define (ultimate) deliverables of this entire mini-series
  • paper(s), publications?
  • wikipedia article?
  • content on the website - what? how? who?

• Discussions:

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

• Next Meeting:
  • Our OKMDS Launch Event - see you all there! - ref. ConferenceCall_2007_11_08
  • next organizing committee meeting will be slated for 1-Hour starting Tue 2007.11.13 - 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT
    • refer to details at the wiki session page (closer to the time) at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_11_13

• Call adjourned at: 11:00 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2007.11.06-11:02 PST

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