OWLED
STEERING COMMITTEE
The OWLED Steering Committee is responsible for carrying out policy determined at the OWLED business meetings and otherwise assisting the organizers of the OWLED workshops. Its current members are
Melanie Courtot BCCRC elected 2008-2011, general chair 2011-2014 Michel Dumontier Stanford University (USA) elected 2008-2011, 2011-2014 Matthew Horridge Stanford University (USA) general chair 2012-2015 Pavel Klinov University of Ulm (Germany) elected 2012-2015 Simon Jupp European Bioinformatics Institute (UK) elected 2013-2016 Mariano Rodriguez-Muro Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) general chair 2013-2016
There exists a moderated mailing-list for the discussions by the steering committee. Requests and comments to the committee should be sent to this list, whose address is owled-steering@googlegroups.com Mail sent to the above address will be distributed to all members of the steering committee.
Ulrike Sattler University of Manchester (UK) elected 2010-2013 Michael Schneider FZI Research Center for Information Technology (Germany) elected 2010-2013 Kendall Clark Clark&Parsia general chair 2009-2012, general chair 2010-2013 Rinke Hoekstra Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam elected 2009-2012 Alan Ruttenberg University at Buffalo and Creative Commons (USA) general chair 2008-2011 Bernardo Cuenca Grau University of Manchester legacy 2007-2008 Bijan Parsia University of Manchester general chair 2007-2008 Pascal Hitzler AIFB, University of Karlsruhe legacy 2007-2009 Ian Horrocks University of Oxford legacy 2007-2009 Peter Patel-Schneider Bell Labs Research legacy 2007-2010 John Goodwin Ordnance Survey elected 2007-2010
The steering committee is currently formed according to the following policy:
OWLED Steering Committee: The scheduled changes for the steering committee were that Bernardo Cuena Grau drops off, Alan Ruttenberg joins, and we elect one new member. Two members were nominated for election, Michel Dumontier and Melanie Courtot. Bijan Parsia volunteered to drop out to allow both of them to join, which was accepted with no dissension.
OWLED 2009: It was decided that OWLED 2009 will be held adjacent to ISWC 2009 in late October in the Washington, DC, USA, area. OWLED 2009 will probably be held in the offices of Clark&Parsia, in downtown Washington, DC. OWLED 2009 will not overlap both tutorial/workshop days of ISWC 2009 and will not overlap RR 2009. Potential attendees are encouraged to look for hotel bargains.
Community activities:
There was interest in Description Graphs at the "breakout" session. A
wiki page will be set up in
the OWLED Wiki,
initialized with information
from the session. The community will update this page to come up with a
design for an addition to OWL.
There will be a pointer to the Wiki from the main OWLED pages.
The Wiki may merge with the
larger Semantic Web
wiki.
Community members were reminded that the OWLED Wiki is their wiki; if
they don't make changes the wiki will die.
OWLED Steering Committee: The scheduled changes for the steering committee were that two legacy members were to drop off, the general chair for OWLED 2009 was to be added, and one new member elected. As Peter Patel-Schneider was the general chair for OWLED 2009, the steering committee decided to give this spot to Kendall Clarke, a general chair for OWLED 2008DC. Pascal Hitzler and Ian Horrocks dropped off. Rinke Hoekstra was selected by acclamation.
OWLED 2010: There was considerable discussion on where to have OWLED 2010, as ISWC 2010 will be in China. There was support for having OWLED with SemTech (San Francisco, June), or RR 2010 (Bressanone, Sept), or European SemTech (Vienna, Dec). Peter Patel-Schneider volunteered to start work on seeing whether having OWLED with SemTech would be viable.
Community activities: There was interest in having a community tutorial for OWL, perhaps for presentation at SemTech.
OWLED Steering Committee: The scheduled changes for the steering committee were that the final legacy member was to drop off along with John Goodwin. As Kedall Clark was the general chair for OWLED 2010, the are two members to add back in. These two members will be selected by email and other means.
OWLED 2011: There possibility of having another event at SemTech 2011 was discussed. If someone steps forward to organize an OWL-related event at SemTech 2011, there will be support from the steering committee. The next OWLED will likely be at ISWC 2011, which will be held in Koblenz, Germany in late October or early November 2011.
OWL API: There was considerable support in finding out the ongoing status of the OWL API and providing sustainable support for it. Kendall Clark and Alan Ruttenberg will find out what the options are.
OWLED Steering Committee: Alan Ruttenberg reached the end of his term as steering committee member. Melanie Courtot was general chair for 2011, and her mandate was extended for 3 years. It was decided that Michel Dumontier should be renewed as well.
OWLED 2011: It was suggested to hold the next OWLED in Europe after 2 years in the US, and possibly colocate with an academic conference.OWLED Steering Committee: Rinke Hoekstra reached the end of his term as a steering committee member. Matthew Horridge was the general chair for 2012. Pavel Klinov was elected for 2012-2015.
OWLED Steering Committee: Kendall Clark, Uli Sattler, and Michael Schneider step down at the end of the year. Simon Jupp joins as a program chair of OWLED 2013. Mariano Rodriguez-Muro was general chair for 2013.