OKMDS: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Tuesday 27-May-2008

• This is the 16th conference call of the organizing committee for the joint NASA-Ontolog-KMWG "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support" initiative. The session is expected to be a 1-Hour conference call.

• URL for this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_05_27

Conference Call Details

• Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
• Start Time: 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT / 17:00 UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hour
• 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
  • Ken Baclawski
  • Jeanne Holm

• Expecting:
  • Susan Turnbull (will try attending, but may have to miss this)
  • Leo Obrst
  • Andrew Schain
  • Kurt Conrad
  • Denise Bedford
  • Nancy Faget
  • Steve Ray

• Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

• getting ready for the OKMDS closing session on Thu 2008.05.29 - ConferenceCall_2008_05_29
• coordinating the various remarks and reflections on the OKMDS mini-series for the May-29 session.
• decision on any follow-on deliverables after the May-29 closing session

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

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

• Jeanne Holm 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. Status of developing issues:

• scheduled sessions underway:
  • 2008_05_29 - Thursday: OKMDS mini-series Concluding Event - "Connecting People Through Semantics, and OKDMS Series Summary" - Chair/Speakers: Jeanne Holm and Andrew Schain - ConferenceCall_2008_05_29   

• Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call)

• Jeanne will prepare a press release for Federal Computer Week and Government Computer News to announce the mini-series.
  • Susan will pass along a contact that might help - done!
    • Jeanne suggested that this could be used to advance networking across upcoming Knowledge Management and Virtual World conferences in April
  • Jeanne preparing press release to share at Spring conferences

• Peter P. Yim - *suggested that organizers share their reflections at the final session in several bullets each

• Discussions:

• postmortem on the [OKMDS] session of Thu 2008.05.08 with invited speaker Yochai Benkler - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_05_08

• need to tie down the Closing Session for the OKMDS mini-series - ConferenceCall_2008_05_29
  • Date confirmed -- 29-May-2008
  • Title: Connecting People Through Semantics, and OKDMS Series Summary
  • Panel: Jeanne Holm & Andrew Schain ... with short remarks* from the rest of the organizing committee members
  • chair: Jeanne Holm
  • this will be our wrap-up session - therefore great that it will be featuring NASA work too
    • Jeanne and others interested will summarize key lessons and conversations.
      • This forum has informed NASA work and that will be made clear to participants
    • Abstract: Jeanne will have this ready by noon PDT today
    • Slides: from Andy & Jeanne --Jeanne: will be ready first thing Wed 5/28 am
    • SL support: Charles Du from JPL
  • Agenda: Jeanne overview, Andy presents on data architecture and semantic technologies, with POPS as an example, leadership team member remarks, open discussion; Jeanne concluding remarks.

• coordinating the various remarks and reflections on the OKMDS mini-series for the May-29 closing session.
  • Jeanne: Andy and I will bring this back to NASA
  • Peter: will make remarks on this mini-series from the vantage point of Ontolog
  • Susan: ?
  • Ken: will talk a little bit about "decision support"
  • anyone else (from okmds-org)? ... please send your thoughts to <okmds-org@ontolog.cim3.net> as a response to this meeting thread by end-of-day today (Tue 5/27)

• anything else on the [okmds-convene] online discourse?

• take another look on how we are doing, and what else could to be done to make this an even greater success

• decision on any follow-on deliverables after the May-29 closing session

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Adjourn:

• This is the last of the organizing committee meetings. Our official wrap-up will be at the 5/29 session this Thursday. Look forward to having everyone there! - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_05_29

• Call adjourned at: 10:35 am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.05.27-10:36 am PDT

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