From: jhendler (jhendler@darpa.mil)
Date: 02/28/01
Call for DAML 1-year Intent of Work Submissions (Required of ALL funded PIs for continued funding) Due Monday, March 19 DAML PIs, As discussed at the DAML winter PI meeting, I am asking for a short write up (2-3 pages) describing your Intent of Work (IOW) over the course of the next year. You are reminded that the IOW statements should be written so that they still fall within your contractual Statements of Works (SOW), but let me be very clear -- I am not looking for a simple rewording of the SOW - I want to know what I should be expecting from your project. In general what I am looking for is to move beyond the Homework assignments and start to show your ability to develop technologies with significant research innovation. Remember the goals of our program: Show the power of explicit semantics on the web, develop "lifecycle" descriptions for critical applications and infrastructural components of the semantic web, show how non-web-based resources can be linked into the whole using explicit semantics. As stated at the meeting, it is expected that you will be either working with other DAML projects or working with a particular military partner. Please note - for all the tools you are developing, the questions I will ask you (repeatedly) is "who are the intended users?" "What are their motivations for using your tool?" and "What knowledge must they have to be able to accomplish this." -- please note that their may be different users of different levels (i.e."a web designer would use this to design pages, a random web user would then be able to use those pages to do XXX"). I really do care about he motivation issue -- if no one would use this, then why should I fund it?? Your submission should clearly describe: 1. What is the technical goal/accomplishment you are hoping to achieve? 2. Who are you grouping with in the DAML program and/or who is the intended military user? 3. Who is the intended user of what you are developing, and why would he/she use it (i.e. the "lifecycle" thing)? 4. What do you think the next logical step will be in the 1-2 years after?. Once we have all the submissions, an announcement will be made and they will be available on https://www.daml.org (on the private side). You are welcome to work with other projects, and for several PIs to submit a joint paper, but please be sure to CLEARLY specify which projects are doing this as their primary involvement in DAML (and which others may also be participating) All submissions must be in PDF or Word (.doc) format Please send your submission (or questions about submissions) to: Brad Harris (bharris@ schafercorp-ballston.com) Dr. James Hendler jhendler@darpa.mil Chief Scientist, DARPA/ISO 703-696-2238 (phone) 3701 N. Fairfax Dr. 703-696-2201 (Fax) Arlington, VA 22203 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler
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