ConferenceCall 2004 07 22

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2004-07-22    (2MR)

Conference Call Details    (2MS)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2004-07-22    (2MT)
• Comments/Agenda:    (2MU)
  • Agenda Comments: ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (2MV)
  • please post any suggested agenda items to the call wiki page and upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by WebDAV upload prior to the meeting    (2MW)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (2MX)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (2MY)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (2MZ)
  • To contribute, and during the call, please access the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_07_22    (2N0)
• Date: Thursday, July 22, 2004    (2N1)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time    (2N2)
• End Time: 11:55 AM Pacific Standard Time    (2N3)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (2N4)
• Participant Access Code: "0686564#"    (2N5)

Attendees    (2N6)

• Attended:    (2N7)
  • PeterYim (note that I will be traveling and will not be able to come to the next call on Thu 2004.07.29)    (2N8)
  • BillMcCarthy    (2N9)
  • AlanStitzer    (2NA)
  • AdamPease    (2NB)
  • KurtConrad    (2NC)
  • NenadIvezic    (2ND)
  • BobSmith    (2NE)
  • SermKulvatunyou    (2NF)
  • PatCassidy    (2NG)
  • MonicaMartin    (2NH)

• Expecting:    (2NI)

• Regrets:    (2NJ)
  • BoNewman    (2NK)

Agenda Ideas    (2NL)

• finalize on our August invited speaker    (2NM)
• confirm Joint SICoP-Ontolog conference call date (candidate: Thu 2004.08-05)    (2NN)
• closure on delegating PeterYim to be Ontolog's Liaison to UBL    (2NO)
• perhaps we can chat briefly about the NIST topic and the TRL (Technology Readiness Level) draft Ontology -- BobSmith    (2NP)

Agenda & Proceedings    (2NQ)

1) Welcome    (2NR)

• BobSmith took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (2NS)
• review and adopt agenda    (2NT)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (2NU)

• PeterYim volunteered    (2NV)

3) Roll-call of participants    (2NW)

• see above    (2NX)

4) Upcoming / Standing meeting schedule (this month)    (2NY)

• Week 1: Continue planning work    (2NZ)

• Week 2: Guest speaker    (2O0)
  • BillMcCarthy: Aug-2004 speaker - ChrisWelty; Date - Thu 2004.08.12 (?); Status: Bill has sent the invitation out today.    (2O1)
  • EvanWallace: Sep-2004 speaker - MichaelGruninger; Date - Thu 2004.09.16 (?); Status: Nenad will check with Evan    (2O2)
  • AdamPease: Oct-2004 speaker - ChrisMenzel; Date - Thu 2004.10.14 (?); Status: Chris has agreed in principal    (2O3)

• Week 3: Project review    (2O4)

• Week 4: Workshop    (2O5)

• Joint SICoP-Ontolog conference call - date: Thu 2004.08-05 - confirmed    (2O6)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols    (2O7)

• closure on delegating PeterYim to be Ontolog's Liaison to UBL (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2004-07/msg00004.html)    (2O8)
  • motion: "Peter Yim be appointed as Liaison to the OASIS UBL TC from the Ontolog Forum"    (2O9)
  • will make a post to see if there are people opposing; if so, we'll go to vote counting; if not, we pass the motion.    (2OA)

• Pat brought up some discussion that has been going on at IEEE-SUO WG    (2OB)
• Peter points out that we default to the OASIS voting process (the fact that we do not have an explicit ontolog-specific voting procedure.)    (2OC)
  • refer to the Ontolog Community Process    (2OD)

6) Requirements (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (2OE)

• item not covered during the call.    (2OF)

7) ubl-ontology Formalization issues    (2OG)

• item not covered during the call.    (2OH)

8) Status of Protege-KIF project work    (2OI)

• Peter asked Adam if there is a tool for KIF to OWL translation    (2OJ)
  • Adam answered that he doesn't have one; but there does exist a translation of SUMO (from KIF to) OWL.    (2OK)
  • Teknowledge may have an internal tool that does KIF to DAML, then DAML to OWL    (2OL)
  • Adam alluded some potential acitivities that might start in that direction that he knows of (Mike, IIT, ...)    (2OM)

• Pat asked Adam about a disjoint partition ... (Pat please finish the recap)    (2ON)

9) Status of CCT-Representation project work    (2OO)

• Alan: happy with the direction [cctont-imp] is going    (2OP)
  • Peter request Alan to confer with Sue Probert ref the "controlled vocabulary"    (2OQ)

• Nenad: would be interested to work at the ACC & BIE level too (besides CCT).    (2OR)
  • Want to find out more on how the TBG-17 is approaching it -- Alan gave a brief intro to their process and status.    (2OS)
  • ... (Nenad please finish the recap)    (2OT)
  • Serm also had questions ref the TBG-17 process, to which Alan reponded ... (Serm please finish the recap)    (2OU)

• Pat asked about work at the UN/CEFACT ATG -- Alan suggested that Mark Crawford would be a good contact to get answers.    (2OV)

• Peter requested Alan to keep us informed when TBG-17 has anything new to put out (posting them to the [ontolog-forum] would be appreciated.)    (2OW)

• Monica commends the wonderful job TBG-17 is doing.    (2OX)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (2OY)

• BrandNiemann may tell us more about a pilot funding source during the upcoming SICoP-Ontolog joint call.    (2OZ)

11) Other business    (2P0)

• Discussion: chat briefly about the NIST topic and the TRL (Technology Readiness Level) draft Ontology -- BobSmith    (2P1)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (2P2)

• we'll skip next week (no call on Thu 2004-07-29) - Peter, Bill & Bob all indicated that they won't be available.    (2P3)
• next call will be Thu 2004.08.05 - the joint call with SICoP    (2P4)
  • Peter solicited input from the group on what they want to see on this joint call agenda.    (2P5)
    • Please post your response to http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2004-07/msg00044.html    (2P6)
• call adjourned at 11:30am PDT    (2P7)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim
 ppy / 2004.07.22 11:33am PDT    (2P8)