[iaoa-education] IAOA Education Committee Meeting on Wed 2016.09.14: announcement

Andrea Westerinen arwesterinen at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 15:25:06 CEST 2016


My apologies, but I have to attend a meeting this morning and will not be
available.

Andrea Westerinen
T: 425.891.8407
arwesterinen at gmail.com or andreaw at ninepts.com
organizingknowledge.blogspot.com

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Frank Loebe <
frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> Dear Education Committee members,
>
> 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.12                 Wed, Sep 14, 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_20160914
>
>
> 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 directly
> (Zena is currently not available).
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
>
> = 12th Meeting of the IAOA Techn. Comm. on Education - Sep 14, 2016 =
>
> == call details (summary) ==
>
> * Date:        Wed 2016.09.14
> * 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:    ~1.0 Hours
>
> * Dial-in via Skype:
>   https://join.skype.com/a36OQeLjaIzd
>
> * in-session chat:
>   http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/iaoa_edu_20160914
>
> * Education Committee Wiki
>   http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/
>
> [A] local meeting date and time(s)
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=201
> 60914T1400&ah=1&am=00
>
>
> == participants ==
>
> expecting:
>  AH  Amanda Hicks
>  MK  Maria Keet
>  FL  Frank Loebe
>  SL  Sandra Lovrencic
>  TS  Todd Schneider
>  AW  Andrea Westerinen
>
> regrets:
>  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 confirmed
>
>    2. Applied Ontology Terminology
>       a. feedback on using terms from [1]?                      [SL]
>  ?    b. feedback by G.Guizzardi & N.Guarino?                   [TS]
>       c. new definitions added in wiki [2]?
>  ?    d. procedure as proposed by J.F.Sowa -> editors?
>
>    3. minor administrative tasks
>       a. ISAO website zip file requested from Oliver Kutz?      [MK]
>
>    4. ontology textbook effort
>       a. no special meeting happened yet
>  ?    b. continue discussion on scope
>
>    5. AOB
>
>    6. next meeting(s)
>       a. Wed, Oct 5 vs. Oct 12, 2016
>       b. Wed, Nov 2, 2016
>
>
> [1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/building-ontologies
>     R. Arp, B. Smith, A.D. Spear
>     Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology
>     MIT Press, 2015
>
> [2] http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/pmwiki.php?n=IAOAEdu.TermList
>
>
> == long-term Agenda ==
>
>   A. Ontology Competition [2016]
>      * [suspended, in n.11, 2016.08.10] until Nov.2016 meeting
>      * [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
>
>   B. ISAO 2018
>      * [waits] for determined FOIS 2018 location,
>        reconsider in Oct or Nov 2016
>
>
> = pre-meeting material =
>
> == 1. EduTC to act as ISAO Steering Committee confirmed ==
>
> * IAOA EC accepts the understanding of how EduTC will steer ISAO
>
> * communicated agreement:
> < partial copy of EC meeting n.153, Aug 29, pre-meeting material >
>
> [based on Education Committee meeting of Aug 10, 2016]
>
> The EduC accepts the task of steering ISAO schools, by which the
> following is understood:
>
> * the main task is to try to initiate ISAO schools regularly,
>   which means to:
>  ** try finding a general chair, PC chair(s), possibly local chair(s)
>  ** this will be coordinated with FOIS hosting proposals, keeping in
>     mind an intended direct link or nearby location
>  ** general and PC chairs are responsible for identifying facilitators,
>     scheduling the program, etc., but the EduC will monitor their
>     activities and might give advice and (limited) support
>
> * if reasonable attempts to fill those positions fail, this will be
>   communicated to the EC, but there is _no obligation_ to fill any
>   of the open positions by EduC members
>
> * other steering decisions, e.g. on the frequency of ISAO events, can
>   also be made by the EduC and will be coordinated with the EC
> </ copy >
>
>
>
> == 2. Applied Ontology Terminology ==
>
> === 2d. procedure as proposed by J.F.Sowa -> editors? ===
>
> * 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)
>
>
> [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
>
>
> == 4b. ontology textbook effort: continue discussion on scope ==
>
> comment by FL, Aug 03 [1]:
> * 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-Augu
> st/000063.html
>     (see pre-meeting material of item 2.)
>
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