OntologWiki: ConferenceCall 2004 05 27

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2004-05-27 (25I)

Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2004-05-27 (25K)
Comments/Agenda: (25L)
- 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. (25M)
- 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 (25N)
- To contribute, and during the call, please access the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_05_27 (25O)
Date: Thursday, May 27, 2004 (25P)
Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time (25Q)
End Time: 11:55 AM Pacific Standard Time (25R)
Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada) (25S)
Participant Access Code: "0686564#" (25T)

Attendees (25U)

Agenda Ideas === (265)

Agenda & Proceedings == (266)

1) Welcome (267)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes (269)

3) Roll-call of participants (26B)

4) Upcoming / Standing meeting schedule (this month) (26D)

Steve Newcombe will be the next guest speaker, June 10th. He will be discussing topic maps. Steve has been working on topic maps since about 1993 or 1994, after experience with HyTime?. (26E)

Kurt gave a brief description of topic maps. They have gone through various versions of the standard -- people have different ideas of how to create an index, and these correspond to different ways to do semantic modeling. (26F)

(26L)
- The Protege conference will include a workshop organized by Bob Smith and Kurt Conrad, to be held as one of the official Protege workshops on July 6th at NIH in Maryland, in Building 45. This workshop will function as the second official Ontolog Face-to-Face meeting. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004. Bob Smith has not yet formally received any of the papers to be presented. (26M)

(26N)
- In addition to the Ontolog workshop we have agreed to have a joint meeting with the SICoP committee (Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice), a group of government information scientists concerned with fostering semantic interoperabiilty between government agencies. This meeting will be held in the afternoon of July 7, pre-empting attendance at the Protege sessions being held at that time. The specific time has not yet been set, tentatively it has been set for 1:30 to 5:30 PM. (26O)

(26P)
- A chair for the Ontolog portion of the SICoP joint meeting has not yet been detemined. Kurt will be arriving in Washington on the 3rd of July and leaving on the 10th. (26Q)

(26R)
- Monica said she will not be able to attend the July Protege workshop. She is TC cochair of the OASIS BPSS (Business Process Specification Schema). A lot of discussion has been held about the effect of context, a very broad topic, relating to business processes. Another issue has been whether to use BPMN (Business Process Management Notation) as a notation for BP modeling. (26S)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols (26T)

7) ubl-ontology Formalization (26V)

8) Status of Protege-KIF project work (26W)

(26X)
- Pat has not done any additional work directly on the KIF-Protege conversion in the past month, but will review what has been done thus far at the Protege workshop on July 6. (26Y)

9) Status of CCT-Representation project work (26Z)

10) Sponsorship and funding (270)

11) Other business (271)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn (272)

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PatCassidy May 27, 2004 / 10:30 - 11:30 PDT (274)