telco this week & news, schedule

Dear all,

  this is to remind you all that we will be e-meeting again tomorrow 
15:00 (CET) for our weekly ontolex telco. I will send around an agenda 
etc. tomorrow. I did not manage to do it so far, apologies.

Other than, I have some news, I talked yesterday to Sebastian Hellmann 
as John and me visited him in Leipzig.

He is chair of the SEMANTIC conference in Leipzig 
http://www.semantics.cc/ and offered us the possibility of organizing a 
one-day event/workshop/tutorial on the ontolex model.

We could present the almost final model to the community, do a 
(hands-on) tutorial etc. I think this would be a great idea. Please let 
me know what you think and whether you would like to attend such an 
event. Clearly, the more people from ontolex attend, the better. We 
would announce this rather broadly of course, but I want to make sure 
that there is enough internal attendance.

This means that in my view our plan for this year could be as follows:

End of June: final draft of the model (95%) version, to be presented to 
the community for final comments

July - September:  first versions of implemented APIs, validators 
(syntactic and checking some usual ontolex mistakes through SPARQL 
construct etc.)

September - December: putting model online at W3C (see my other email on 
this) and disseminating at conferences, through webinars etc.

John also raised the issue what would happen to the community once the 
final model is released.

Our idea would be that the community stays there and meets regularly but 
less intensely ;-) with the main goal of monitoring usage of the model 
and possibly making some needed (monotonic) changes to the model as we 
monitor uptake and usage and possibly get some requests for changes, 
additions etc. from the community.

Concerning APIs: it would of course be nice to have APIs in different 
standard programming languages that people use in our field. The most 
obvious candidate is Java, but a Pyhton API could be also interesting. 
Any other?

See my other email on the architecture of the ontolex web site.

Best regards,

Philipp.

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Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano

Phone: +49 521 106 12249
Fax: +49 521 106 12412
Mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de

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Universität Bielefeld
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