[iaoa-education] Request for proposals for next ESAO webinar sessions. Answer by Sept 1rst!

[Laure Vieu]

Dear Executive Council members and Education Technical Committee members,

Our new ESAO (Educational Series on Applied Ontology) inititative is 
proceeding well, you can see the programme of the launch event here: 
https://esao2021.inf.unibz.it/

Please don't forget to click on the ESAO box when registering to BOSK, 
in order to participate in this event, in presence or virtually.

This launch event is meant to be the beginning of a series of webinars, 
to offer a continuous education activity and to grow a significant 
on-line library of educational material.

We aim right now at having one such webinar session every month, with 
1-3 talks per session. And it would be great to be in position to 
announce at least a couple of next sessions at the launch event.
But we still need some more time to implement the permanent call and 
review process open to all. This is why we decided in the last EduTC 
meeting to now turn to you, hoping to can get a quick answer and solutions:

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*        -> Would you like to deliver an ESAO talk *(see below the idea 
and requirements)*in October? or in November? On**which topic *(give a 
title + a few lines to explain what is intended)*?*

*        -> Do you know some confirmed *(post-doc)*researcher in our 
core community that is willing to do so? *(Please check ahead with them 
their availability for October or November and their topic proposal.)

*        I am collecting your replies by September 1rst, but the earlier 
the better.**
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We will then make a light review of what appears most suitable (for 
these first editions), and check the temporal availabilty of the speakers.
It would be great to establish a regular time-slot for the webinars 
(e.g., second tuesday of the month at 18:00 CET/CEST), so please also 
send suggestions on times that you see suitable.

Best,

Laure for the EduTC


== More information on ESAO and the talks ==

The key idea of ESAO is a combination of (1) an archive of educational 
material and (2) a webinar series for presentation and exchange on that 
material.

For (1), we aim at creating an archive of short (10-20 min), 
self-contained units of educational material (videos, web-, screen- and 
podcasts, among others) that is available to be streamed on demand. Any 
such unit can originate from recording a live session, but likewise it 
can be produced in any other suitable way. The purpose is the material 
as such and making it accessible.

Concerning (2), an accompanying webinar series shall present the 
material and allow for personal interaction about its topics in a 
variety of formats, e.g. as live presentation with subsequent 
discussion, as question and answer sessions or panel discussions on a 
few units together for further digestion (then expected to have been 
“consumed” already), as well as further formats that may be proposed.

The level of the talks should be introductory, i.e., suitable for 
graduate students and novel participants from industry. In terms of 
content, we perceive adequate topics to range from classical 
foundational ontological issues (such as well-known ontological choices 
and distinctions) over common theories and methods for ontologies to 
application issues. Overall, we are open and look forward to 
suggestions. (In any case, bear the short format in mind.)