Conference Call 2003-08-28

UBL-Ontology Project Conference Call - Thu 2003-08-28    (7DY)

Conference Call Details    (7DZ)

• Subject: [UblOntology] project conference call Thu 2003-08-28    (7E0)
• Comments/Agenda:    (7E1)
  • 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.    (7E2)
  • Please post you suggested agenda items if you would like to see anything put onto the agenda    (7E3)
  • please post or upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by ftp upload prior to the meeting    (7E4)
  • VNC session will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (7E5)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (7E6)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (7E7)
  • During the call, please browse the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-08-28    (7E8)
• Date: Thursday, Aug. 28, 2003    (7E9)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time    (7EA)
• End Time: 11:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time    (7EB)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (7EC)
• Participant Access Code: "030828#"    (7ED)

Attendees    (7EE)

• Attended:    (7EF)
  • PeterYim    (7EG)
  • AdamPease    (7EH)
  • KurtConrad    (7EI)

• Regrets:    (7EJ)
  • BoNewman    (7EK)
  • PatCassidy    (7EL)

Agenda Ideas    (7EM)

Agenda & Proceedings    (7EN)

1) Welcome    (7EO)

• KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (7EP)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (7EQ)

• PeterYim volunteered.    (7ER)

3) Roll-call of participants    (7ES)

• see above    (7ET)

4) Possible face-to-face meeting    (7EU)

• a. Nov-2003    (7EV)

•    (7EW)
  • Peter reports that a wiki page is started, see OntologWorkshop_Nov_2003    (7EX)
    • soliciting ideas and comments (either directly onto the above wiki page, or through posting to the mailing list.)    (7EY)

• b. Mar. 22-24, 2004 (alongside AAAI symposium at Stanford)    (7EZ)

•    (7F0)
  • LeoObrst, KurtConrad & PeterYim will be doing a paper to introduce the [ontolog-forum] there    (7F1)
  • AdamPease is expecting to attend    (7F2)

5) Communication logistics & work protocols    (7F3)

• a. Ontology browser - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/kifb    (7F4)

•    (7F5)
  • AdamPease will reconfirm which is the latest version of the SUMO ontology that is public domain, and we should update the browser to that    (7F6)
    • the latest version that is public domian is v1.56, which AdamPease will send a copy to PeterYim to update the onotlogy browser with    (7F7)
    • current versions of the Teknowledge distribution of SUMO now carries the GNU Public License    (7F8)
    • we will stick with the public domain versions for now, and talk about overall IPR policy for [ontolog] when we meet face-to-face in Nov'03.    (7F9)

• b. "Representation" debate: KIF vs Protege, et. al.    (7FA)
  • expressiveness    (7FB)
  • usability argument    (7FC)
  • what would be our best approach if we do our ontology in KIF but translate to other representations    (7FD)
  • what would be our normative deliverable    (7FE)
    • KIF    (7FF)
    • Protege    (7FG)
    • XML (Kurt will want to work on this)    (7FH)
  • AdamPease will help capture the ongoing debate and resolution option on the Methodology page at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Methodology#nid0107    (7FI)

6) Use cases (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (7FJ)

• a. PO / Invoice reconciliation    (7FK)

• b. Context-sensitive address rules    (7FL)

• c. Mapping between representations    (7FM)

7) Formalization activities    (7FN)

• a. UBL reference documents    (7FO)

• b. Peter & Kurt still have a commitment to Adam to work on formalizing a few UBL data elements    (7FP)

8) Sponsorship and funding    (7FQ)

• discussion postponed    (7FR)

9) Other business    (7FS)

• Peter & Kurt will be meeting with JonBosak (UBL TC chair) on 2003-09-04 to discuss how we could work more closely to advance our causes    (7FT)

10) Next meeting date and adjourn    (7FU)

• next meeting: same time next week starts Thu 2003-09-04_10:30 PDT    (7FV)
• meeting adjourned 2003-08-28_11:19 PDT    (7FW)

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 minutes captured by PeterYim in real time on the wiki
 - ppy/2003-08-28_11:20 PDT    (7FX)