ConferenceCall 2004 08 05

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2004-08-05    (2P9)

Conference Call Details    (2PB)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2004-08-05    (2PC)
• Comments/Agenda:    (2PD)
  • 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.    (2PE)
  • 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    (2PF)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (2PG)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (2PH)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (2PI)
  • To contribute, and during the call, please access the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_08_05    (2PJ)
• Date: Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004    (2PK)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time    (2PL)
• End Time: 11:55 AM Pacific Standard Time    (2PM)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (2PN)
• Participant Access Code: "0686564#"    (2PO)

Attendees    (2PP)

• Attended:    (2PQ)
  • AdamPease    (2PR)
  • KurtConrad    (2PS)
  • PeterYim    (2PT)
  • BobSmith    (2PU)

• Expecting:    (2PV)
  • AlanStitzer    (2PW)

• Regrets:    (2PX)
  • MonicaMartin    (2PY)

Agenda Ideas    (2PZ)

• polling on members' interest level, and channels of engagement to possibilities with government semantic/system engineering work.    (2Q0)

• confirmation of PeterYim as Ontolog-Forum's Liaison to UBL    (2Q1)

• responding to the SICoP "Second Semantic Technologies for eGov Conference" call for paper    (2Q2)
  • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2004-07/msg00039.html    (2Q3)

Agenda & Proceedings    (2Q4)

1) Welcome    (2Q5)

• AdamPease took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (2Q6)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (2Q7)

• PeterYim volunteered    (2Q8)

3) Roll-call of participants    (2Q9)

• see above    (2QA)

4) Upcoming / Standing meeting schedule (this & next month)    (2QB)

• suggested focus (on a monthly basis):    (2QC)
  • Week 1: Continue planning work    (2QD)
  • Week 2: Guest speaker    (2QE)
  • Week 3: Project review    (2QF)
  • Week 4: Workshop    (2QG)

• no speaker confirmed for this month so far. The meeting decided that we'll just skip this month (as it's the last month in summer and a lot of people are away.)    (2QH)
• for Sep'04 we will be having MichaelGruninger as the speaker    (2QI)
• for Oct'04 we will be having ChrisMenzel; Adam will try to tie down a date    (2QJ)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (2QK)

•    (2QL)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2QM)

6) UBL-Ontology project    (2QN)

• Requirements issues (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (2QO)
• Formalization issues    (2QP)
• Status    (2QQ)

•    (2QR)
  • defers to the CCT-Rep project for the time being. will re-convene when    (2QS)

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

•    (2QU)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2QV)

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

•    (2QX)
  • Adam has been busy with proposals. He'll be responding to more of the items brought up by GarretMinakawa again soon (after his proposal submissions next week.)    (2QY)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (2QZ)

•    (2R0)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2R1)

11) Other business    (2R2)

• polling on members' interest level, skills and expertise they can contribute, and channels of engagement to possibilities with government semantic/system engineering work.    (2R3)
  • Brand brought this up as potential in Health related work may arise, and he can help introduce some of us to participate in the work    (2R4)
  • Peter will make a post to the ontolog-forum to solicit responses    (2R5)
  • Adam questions: "what skills are they looking for?"    (2R6)
    • Peter: Brand will let us know more by our Joint Call next week. However, the counters we had with SICoP so far, should have demonstrated that individuals or teams within ontolog do have expertise in:    (2R7)
      • ontological engineering    (2R8)
      • ontological engineering project management    (2R9)
      • teamwork in community settings and operating in a distributed collaboration mode    (2RA)

• confirmation of PeterYim as Ontolog-Forum's Liaison to UBL    (2RB)
  • the response/objection period has come and gone. In lack of any opposing vote, Peter is now appointed by the Ontolog-Forum as their Liaison to UBL.    (2RC)

• responding to the SICoP "Second Semantic Technologies for eGov Conference" call for paper    (2RD)
  • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2004-07/msg00039.html    (2RE)
  • Peter, Bob & Kurt-Bo team might submit a paper for consideration    (2RF)
    • Bob asked about submission details and possibility of an extension.    (2RG)
      • Peter suggested that he contacts Irene Polikoff at Topquadrant about it (ref: http://ps1.cim3.net/ps.php?theurl=http://www.topquadrant.com/conferences/sept8_2004/stgov04.htm#purp97).    (2RH)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (2RI)

• call adjourned 10:54am PDT    (2RJ)
• next call will be our Joint call with SICoP. see: ConferenceCall_2004_08_12    (2RK)

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 ppy / 2004.08.05 10:57am PDT    (2RL)