[iaoa-education] IAOA Education Committee Meeting on Wed 2016.08.10: announcement

Frank Loebe frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Thu Aug 4 12:08:41 CEST 2016 

Dear Education Committee members,

as decided in the last meeting (and discussed yesterday), our next call 
will take place irregularly on the 2nd Wednesday of this month, i.e., on 
Wednesday next week at the usual time of the day:

   --> Meeting n.11                 Wed, Aug 10, 2016
       07:00 PDT / 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
       11:00 BRT / 16:00 SAST               (cf. [A])

   Skype:  https://join.skype.com/a36OQeLjaIzd
   Chat :  http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/iaoa_edu_20160810


An agenda proposal is provided below, followed by some pre-meeting 
material. If you have any comments or questions regarding the agenda or 
the meeting in general, please use the mailing list or contact Maria and 
Zena directly.

Best regards,
Frank



= 11th Meeting of the IAOA Techn. Comm. on Education - Aug 10, 2016 =

== call details (summary) ==

* Date:        Wed 2016.08.10
* Start Time:  07:00 PDT / 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
                11:00 BRT / 16:00 SAST  (cf. [A] for local times)

* Duration:    ~1.5 Hours

* Dial-in via Skype:
   https://join.skype.com/a36OQeLjaIzd

* in-session chat:
   http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/iaoa_edu_20160810

* Education Committee Wiki
   http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/

[A] local meeting date and time(s)
 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160810T1400&ah=1&am=00


== participants ==

expecting:
  AH  Amanda Hicks
  MK  Maria Keet
  FL  Frank Loebe
  SL  Sandra Lovrencic
  AW  Andrea Westerinen
  ZW  Zena Wood

long-term unavailability:
* ZW unavailable between Sep 01-25, 2016
* FL likely unavailable on Oct 5, 2016


== agenda ==

    0. adoption of agenda

    1. EduTC to act as ISAO Steering Committee?

    2. ontology textbook
       a. interested parties & feedback
       b. next steps
       c. work resources
          1: github space set up?                              [MK]
          2: need for separate mailing list?

    3. Applied Ontology Terminology
       a. feedback in thread @ [ontolog-forum]
       b. new definitions added in wiki [3]?
       c. relation with Wikipedia pages

    4. future EduTC projects
       a. ontology competition: suspend? when to reconsider?

    5. minor administrative tasks
       a. ISAO website zip file requested from Oliver Kutz?    [MK]
       b. link to EduTC wiki added to IAOA website?            [FL]

    6. AOB

    7. next meeting(s)
       a. Wed, Sep 7, 2016
       b. Wed, Oct 5 vs. Oct 12, 2016


== long-term Agenda ==

   A. Ontology Competition [2016]
      * [action] [MK] describe ideas on the competition
       ** noted on Mar 02, 2016, originally for ISAO by May 2016
       ** no deadline set wrt an independent competition


= pre-meeting material =

== 1. EduTC to act as ISAO Steering Committee? ==

Following up on ISAO 2016 [1], the EduTC is asked to function as ISAO
Steering Committee, in general.

< excerpt of [2] >
In anticipation of the next Edu TC meeting on August 10, please provide
input already on:

Should the Edu TC serve as a sort of standing "steering committee"
for ISAO?
It is/was the intention of the EC that the whole EduC takes care of
initiating the ISAO process. This would involve finding a general
chair, a PC chair, and a local chair. It also would include decisions
on:
    - co-location of ISAO with other events, or possible decoupling from
      other events and such, and
    - whether the ISAO should be a yearly event or once in 2 years.
</ excerpt >


[1] ISAO 2016 website
     http://isao2016.inf.unibz.it/

[2] email MKeet of Jul 28, 2016
 
https://listserv.ovgu.de//pipermail/iaoa-education/2016-July/000054.html


== 2. ontology textbook: interested parties & feedback ==

* interested parties according to email [1] and those following up [2]
   [status: Aug 03, 2016 13:00 UTC]

   MA  Mara Abel    (+ PhD students)
   JB  Julita Bermejo-Alonso
   MK  Maria Keet
   FL  Frank Loebe
   SL  Sandra Lovrencic
   AW  Andrea Westerinen
   ZW  Zena Wood

comment [3 [reformatted]] by MA, Jul 28:
* it would be more efficient if you, or the small group, could pass
   defined tasks to be done.
* We can be useful in manual work than requires time to be done, and
   react quickly, since I have a good team of students deeply involved
   with formal ontology.

comment by FL, Aug 03 [original]:
* clarify scope & target audience of the textbook
* in case of a teaching focus, start collecting
  ** teaching and learning goals
  ** topics
* formal representation and languages: which level/aspiration in this
   respect?


[1] https://listserv.ovgu.de//pipermail/iaoa-education/2016-July/000055.html

[2] https://listserv.ovgu.de//pipermail/iaoa-education/2016-July/date.html

[3] https://listserv.ovgu.de//pipermail/iaoa-education/2016-July/000059.html


== 3a. Applied Ontology Terminology: feedback in thread @ [ontolog-forum] ==

* Jul 28, 2016: SL starts a thread "Applied Ontology Terminology" [1] at 
[ontolog-forum], hinting on the former [2] and the current [3] term lists

* proposals for further procedure by John Sowa (Jul 31) [4]
   [summarized & rearranged, 6.+7. attributed to Christiane Fellbaum]
  1. general editor for general project management
  2. associate editors for handling term subsets
  3. open set of contributors submitting citations and information to
     associate editors
  4. build on earlier editions/work
  5. enable term suggestions by contributors
  6. accommodate everyone's definitions of a term
  7. collect and cluster real example sentences (as term contexts)

* hint on COSMO ontology [5] by Patrick Cassidy (Jul 28) [6]
* update suggestion for diagram on [2] by Gary Berg-Cross (Jul 31) [7],
   with a comment on the diagram's history by Todd Schneider (Jul 31)

* technical comment on use of the archived Ontolog wiki by Peter Yim 
(Jul 29) [8]
* technical comment on use of the current Ontolog wiki for terminology 
gathering by John Sowa (Jul 29) [9]
  ** promoting Ontolog wiki as being open and free of charge, unrelated 
to IAOA membership fees


[1] thread "Applied Ontology Terminology" @ [ontolog-forum]
     https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ontolog-forum/jqyp91GRIuo

[2] term list produced by IAOA Ontology Terminology Subcommittee
     (2012-2013)
     http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/IaoaOntologyTerminology.html

[3] current term list in IAOA EduTC Wiki
     http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/pmwiki.php?n=IAOAEdu.TermList

[4] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ontolog-forum/jqyp91GRIuo/_jUEp_BVBgAJ

[5] COSMO ontology
     http://micra.com/COSMO/

[6] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ontolog-forum/jqyp91GRIuo/n67OnNhOBgAJ

[7] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ontolog-forum/jqyp91GRIuo/qUWePkQ7BwAJ

[8] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ontolog-forum/jqyp91GRIuo/s-vHwSmCBgAJ

[9] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ontolog-forum/jqyp91GRIuo/CWAU9_qTBgAJ

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