ConferenceCall 2004 05 13

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2004-05-13    (1ZE)

Conference Call Details    (1ZF)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2004-05-13    (1ZG)
• Comments/Agenda:    (1ZH)
  • 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.    (1ZI)
  • 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    (1ZJ)
  • VNC session will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (1ZK)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (1ZL)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (1ZM)
  • To contribute, and during the call, please access the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_05_13    (1ZN)
• Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004    (1ZO)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time    (1ZP)
• End Time: 11:55 AM Pacific Standard Time    (1ZQ)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (1ZR)
• Participant Access Code: "0686564#"    (1ZS)

Attendees    (1ZT)

• Attended:    (1ZU)
  • PeterYim    (1ZV)
  • BobSmith    (1ZW)
  • AdamPease    (1ZX)
  • PatCassidy    (1ZY)
  • CeceliaHickel    (1ZZ)

• Expecting:    (200)

• Regrets:    (201)
  • MonicaMartin (traveling)    (202)
  • BillMcCarthy (jury duty)    (203)
  • KurtConrad    (204)

Agenda Ideas    (205)

• Program for our 2nd [ontolog] Fece-to-face Meeting / Workshop - Washington DC area, July 6~?, 2004    (206)
• Invited speaker session next week (2004.05.20) - PeterYim    (207)
• Annoucement: PeterYim & AdamPease will be presenting at the eGov SICoP Meeting on 2004.05.19 (at MITRE, McLean, VA)    (208)

Agenda & Proceedings    (209)

1) Welcome    (20A)

• BobSmith took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (20B)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (20C)

• PeterYim volunteered    (20D)

3) Roll-call of participants    (20E)

• see above    (20F)

4) Upcoming meeting schedule & Announcements    (20G)

• Week 1: Continue planning work    (20H)
• Week 2: Guest speaker    (20I)
  • Next week - 2004.05.20 - PeterYim on "Shared Understanding - Standards, Ontologies & Collaboration"    (20J)
  • We'll be sharing the vision and issues relating to the CctRepresentation project. Therefore, those who are involved or have interest in the project are urged to come join us at this session    (20K)
• Week 3: Project review    (20L)
• Week 4: Workshop    (20M)
  • Look towards doing a work session for the CctRepresentation project soon    (20N)
  • July 2004 - 2nd Ontolog F2F Meeting & Workshop (more below)    (20O)

• Annoucement: PeterYim & AdamPease will be presenting at the eGov SICoP Meeting on 2004.05.19 (at MITRE, McLean, VA)    (20P)

5) Brainstorm / Planning for our July 2004 - 2nd Ontolog F2F Meeting & Workshop    (20Q)

• Workshop at the Protege Conference confirmed (thanks to BobSmith & KurtConrad)    (20R)
  • Workshop Title: Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions    (20S)
  • Date / Venue - July 6, 2004 1:30~5:30pm    (20T)
  • see: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/schedule2.html    (20U)
    • Cecelia voiced her interested in the OWL plugin for Protege. That will obviously be featured sat the Protege workshop proper, and interest level is high.    (20V)
    • discussed:    (20W)
      • Inference engines vs Search engines    (20X)
    • The issue of extracting information from text is one of the main issues in the NAACL conference (Boston, May)    (20Y)
      • reference to conference: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~pablo/hlt-naacl04/    (20Z)
• possible workshop/function with eGov-SICoP people    (210)
  • Peter will bring it up at the 2004.05.19 SICoP meeting    (211)
    • Cecelia mentioned that there's a lot of good work online that the eGov people are doing; Pat requested that Cecelia shares some of her findings and post them on the wiki    (212)

• other meetings, functions, comments & suggestions    (213)
  • NIST ?    (214)

• Bob suggested setting up a scheduling page (--ppy/done)    (215)
  • please goto: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004/PlanningNotes#nid02 and post your scheduling availability and preferences    (216)

6) Requirements (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (217)

•    (218)
  • item not covered during the call.    (219)

7) ubl-ontology Formalization issues    (21A)

• the value and desirability of the monthly training session was discussed    (21B)
  • Cecelia: I'm engaged, for the next ten years; but sees a steep learning curve here    (21C)
  • Pat: recent NAACL conference - some discussion on extraction of factoids. One can read up on their proceedings to see where the field is heading.    (21D)
  • Adam: to learn more about semantic SEARCH, getting a book on the subject would be more helpful than going through the procedings of the NAACL conference    (21E)
    • Adam: on Search - try "Latent Semantic Analysis"    (21F)

8) Status of Protege-KIF project work    (21G)

• Pat: not doing much work on UBL now, but still working on the Protege-KIF plugin and the associated utilities    (21H)
• Also, on the side, trying to clarify on semantics of the contents (UBL or CCT) that is not documented, to help with the representation.    (21I)
  • Peter suggested that Pat could do some of the communication in the open (on the ontolog forum), as some of the ontolog particpants or observers are members of those standards communities and may be able to offer help.    (21J)

9) Status of CCT-Representation project work    (21K)

• will be giving this an extended coverage next week.    (21L)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (21M)

• sponsors    (21N)
• membership fees    (21O)
  • ontolog as an OASIS member (see post)    (21P)

11) Other business    (21Q)

• Cecelia alerted the group that there are excellent powerpoints at the eGov-NSF 4/28/04 Multiple Taxonomies workshop    (21R)
• Peter suggested that Cecelia might take the lead and start something on the wiki so that people can contribute useful links and resources    (21S)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (21T)

• next meeting: Thu ConferenceCall_2004_05_20 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon PDT (next in the invited speaker series)    (21U)
• call adjourned: 11:45    (21V)

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