- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:53:22 -0500
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
Welcome to the web ontology working group (or, as Aaron Swartz referred to it in a chat room today - the WOW-G). Time for us to get started, here's what I'd like you to do. 1) As I sent out yesterday, please send a bio to the mailing list so we can figure out who we all are and what we do. 2) Dan Connolly is building an RDF database of the info on all of us. He'd like to display this on the map. Please include in your bio your lat/long (either in coordinates, or at least in nearest city terms -- from your affiliations we can't tell what time zones people are in) 3) We will have the first telecon on Monday, November 12, at 3PM US East Coast Time. If you have any specific items you'd like discussed please let me know. [[One agenda item will be when (Day/time) to have our weekly calls, so if you cannot make the Monday time, let me know (and let me know particulalry good/bad times) - to avoid mailing list overuse, please send that to me, not to the whole group]] 4) Peter Patel-Schneider has volunteered to host the first face-to-face meeting at Lucent -- East Coast US. Details will be forthcoming. We are looking at the week of January 14th, 2002. Let me know if you have any topic/organizational suggestions for that meeting. The reading list on the web page is quite large, and most of it is important background, so we urge you to read those that you are not familiar with. Of particular import to this group is the DAML+OIL language description, which we are chartered to consider as, essentially, a draft for our language. If you have not already, you will want to read through the documents at [1] which will be of concern to all of us. Please start sending those bios, and lets get this group moving! thanks Jim H. [1] http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil-index.html -- Prof. James Hendler Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technology 301-405-2696 (phone) Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab 301-405-8488 (fax) University of Maryland http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler College Park, MD 20742
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